The Bike and the Broomstick

Go with the Clouds, North-by-Northwest

Kei Miyama is a seventeen-year-old living in Iceland. He has three secrets: he can talk to cars, he is weak around beautiful girls, and he works as a freelance private investigator. He prefers the company of vehicles to people, traveling alone across the rugged Icelandic landscape. His cases range from finding a beloved dog to reuniting a woman with a man she fell for at first sight. But his work takes a personal turn when he begins searching for his own missing little brother, plunging him into a mystery that hits close to home.

Tegami Bachi

Amberground is a land divided by light. An artificial sun shines only over the capital, Akatsuki, while the outer regions of Yuusari and Yodaka sink into perpetual twilight and darkness. In these dangerous outskirts, giant armored insects called Gaichuu prey on people's hearts. The only ones who brave these routes are the Letter Bees, elite couriers who risk their lives to deliver mail across the land. Lag Seeing is a young boy whose mother was abducted when he was very young. He is entrusted to Gauche Suede, a Letter Bee on his last delivery before a promotion, who must transport Lag to his aunt in the darkest reaches of Yodaka. During their perilous journey through Gaichuu-infested territ

The NPCs in this Village Sim Game Must Be Real!

Yoshio is a thirty-year-old shut-in with no job and no prospects, still living at home. His mundane life is suddenly interrupted when he receives a copy of "The Village of Fate," an experimental game with graphics and A.I. like nothing he has ever seen before. In the game, he takes on the role of a guardian deity who watches over the people of a new village. He finds that the game characters are so intelligent, so reactive, and so human that he starts to wonder if they might somehow be real people. Through his connection to their strangely vivid lives, Yoshio begins to discover the brightness that had been missing from his own existence.

Wandering Island

Mikura Amelia is a free-spirited young woman who lives alone with her cat, operating an air delivery service across the remote Pacific islands with her vintage seaplane. Her solitary, adventurous life is upended following the death of her beloved grandfather, when she discovers an undelivered parcel he left behind, addressed to an island that does not appear on any map. Intrigued by local legends of a mysterious, shifting landmass known as the Wandering Island, Mikura becomes obsessed with finding it. Her determination only grows stronger after she manages to catch a fleeting, tantalizing glimpse of the island from the sky, confirming its elusive reality. Now, with her seaplane and her cat

Kino's Journey: The Beautiful World

Kino travels the world astride Hermes, a talking motorrad who supplies the speed while Kino supplies the balance. The two are inseparable, moving from one country to the next along a road that keeps stretching ahead of them. By their own rule, they never stay anywhere longer than three days — just enough time to learn a place's customs and meet its people before moving on. Some of what they find is gentle and some of it is cruel: happiness and grief, violence and decay, beauty and hard-won wisdom, all of it waiting behind the next border. Because the world is imperfect, Kino and Hermes keep going, unwilling to trade the freedom of the road for a place to settle, and curious about whatever

Afterschool Time of the Earth

Humanity has been wiped out by mysterious dark monsters known as Phantoms. Four survivors have found one another and share a quiet, peaceful existence: Masashi, a kind and dependable teenage boy; Sanae, who is shy; her bolder friend Yaeko; and Anna, a little girl. Their days pass in a perpetual "after school" state, as though the rest of the human race might still come home. But strange things begin to appear around them, and it becomes clear that the monsters have not left the Earth. As they spend their days together, the four of them must face what really happened to their planet, and whether they are truly the last of the human race.