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Host to Shachiku

ホストと社畜

Naoto Suzuki is a corporate slave who takes the first train to work and returns home on the last, repeating the same monotonous routine every day. One morning, before heading to the office, he stops at a beef bowl restaurant in Kabukicho for his usual breakfast set meal. There, he encounters Ren, a cheerful host who is just finishing his night shift and heading home.

Despite being complete strangers from opposite worlds—one starting his day, the other ending his—they end up sharing breakfast side by side at 5:00 a.m. This chance meeting sparks an unusual connection between the exhausted office worker and the lively nightlife professional.

As their brief morning encounters become a daily ritual, the two navigate the delicate boundary between routine and human connection. This is a morning-routine story that depicts the only 15 minutes in which these two people, who live on opposite sides of the clock, cross paths.

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