Manpukuten, a messenger of the gods, appears before people just before they die and prepares them the food they really want to eat to help them attain Buddhahood.

When elephants are about to die, they will leave their herd and die alone. When a person knows that he is about to die, what will he choose? It's lung cancer, and it has already metastasized. There are probably 6 months left. It's a story about a man's last few steps in his life. It's probably quite different from the elephants.

Soko is a sukeban who has been abandoned by both her teachers and her family. However, she decides to ask her sister's tutor, Honjo, a face she has seen often at home lately, to be her tutor. Gradually, she is able to pretend to be a normal girl, but the slightest thing causes her to show her true colors. It's exhausting to be a normal girl…

"Why did you say you liked me..." She changed her hairstyle to suit her senior's taste, and went on a diet... And yet today, Masami is heading to her senior's wedding to another woman. In the taxi she hastily jumped into, Masami sulks, heartbroken. How to overcome heartbreak...damn it! (Source: Beeglee, translated)

Today, Itsumi becomes a college student, but all she owns are her sailor uniform and pajamas. She's a college student, but she has no clothes. And no money. Elegant Daikanyama, edgy Shinjuku, plain Ochanomizu, what about Itsumi...? College students who dedicate their lives to designer brands cut back on books, movies, and meals to be fashionable. This is a story about the earnest daily lives of girls like Itsumi who don't belong in that fashionable world.