Akari Misaki

Various couples and their stories of how they came to kiss each other.

A beauty expert travels back to her high school days, determined to transform her past and rewrite her romantic destiny after a devastating teenage rejection.

A 40-something disillusioned novelist, Yazoe, haunted by a failed marriage and a crippling personal secret, navigates hollow affairs with a courtesan named Chieko while projecting his emotional void onto the protagonists of his love novels—until an accidental encounter with a naive college student, Noriko Seyawa, unravels his guarded solitude, forcing him to confront his fear of intimacy and the buried trauma shaping his twisted philosophy on love.