After causing serious trouble on his Tokyo middle school's powerhouse volleyball team, Kimichika Haijima moves to his mother's hometown in Fukui where he spent his... more>> childhood, and reunites with his childhood friend Yuni Kuroba. The two grow as an ace duo but clash at their final middle school prefectural tournament and went on to their local Seiin High School without speaking to each other. With their arrival, the weak boys' volleyball team aims for nationals. <<less

"Hotel Williams Child Bird", nicknamed <Birdcage Manor>, inhabiting in there are eccentric people who can't fit in the normal society.
A day-dreaming beautiful woman, a Gothic Lolita that's a grade school-er, a person in a cat's costume, the eerie elder twins and an unidentifiable piercing cry that continues to resound.... more>>

In such <Birdcage Manor> one of the residents - Kizuna Etoh, in her 16th winter makes acquaintance with an Art collage student living on fifth floor like a hikikomori - Yusei Asai.
And then she is invited to a part-time job as a nude model for paintings.
In an disorderly atelier with a heavy scent of oil paints as she spends time together with Asai, she feels that to her that time is gradually becoming a valuable part of her everyday...

It's a story how <Birdcage Manor's> a bit odd residents' pass a bit odd but in various ways their normal everydays. <<less

There are twenty independent stories written by twenty different authors, sharing the common theme of “April”. ... more>>

An anthology that is considered a rare item as it has never hit the shelves as a standalone book. There is no ISBN and it is an unbuyable except in online auctions. The anthology was published as a bonus gift to Dengeki Magazine readers in 2009.

It now has a Kindle release. <<less