In 1987, Yamaguchi, an ordinary high school student in a provincial city, meets Ube. Their common ground is anime. For a young man who loves anime and lives in the countryside, having a friend with whom he can share conversations about it becomes something irreplaceable. They meet up late at night to line up for the premiere of "Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise" and organize a "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind" viewing party after school. Before they know it, the two of them start on the path to becoming professional animators.

The Koizumi siblings have a father who is a professional violinist and a mother who is a professional pianist. Unlike her older brothers who have musical talent like their parents, Karin is a poor student at her music high school. She is proud of her twin brother Kazune, who is beginning to follow their father's footsteps into the professional violin world, but every so often, the seeming gap between them depresses her. This is a heartwarming story about the Koizumi family who love and support each other through tough times.

First published in 1983, the series was re-released in 1997 as a 2 volume bunkoban edition.

Atsuko is a talented pianist who decided that she would not go out and play the piano in the final round of a Piano Competition. Upset and frustrated she tells her mother and instructor that it was because she just now realized that she doesn't like playing the piano. Trying to get away from everyone at the competition she runs, ending up in Harajuku where she is stunned by it's music scene and the bands playing in the area. This is all new to Atsuko. Ever since she was little she's spent her life being trained as a classical musician, in an uptight and restricted environment that pressured her to be the perfect pianist because that was what everyone expected. Now set on living her own life, Atsuko wants to experience the outside world on her own... but despite what she said to her mother, she still feels the pull of music. She decides to apply for a part-time job at a record company and is soon pulled into the music industry.

An abused kid and his mom decide to skip town one night in order to escape the loan sharks hounding them over the father's debt. After his mother dies, the boy decides to exact revenge on the people who were responsible.