Hoshimori Maya is a young exorcist deemed a failure and mocked by those around him. Through god's guidance, he travels to another world, joins the hero party, and together, they fulfill their duty of defeating the Demon King before he returned to the current day. However, the one waiting for him was man burning for vengeance, a new battle.

A girl eats speech bubbles - of which various flavors apparently exist.

Chika Kuwabara pretty much drifts through life with no purpose, her days spent at arcades or getting into petty fights. But one day, she witnesses someone practicing fencing in the school gymnasium. That glimpse begins to awaken something deep inside her!

Soldo, a young boy, is reincarnated as a countryside noble in the world of a magic game. He is excited about the adventures he will be having in the game world he has played countless times in his previous life, but he is confronted with the shocking truth that he has no talent for magic...! Unable to use magic, Soldo is destined to live as a worthless mob character with no impact on the story, but one day he discovers a book about "secret swordsmanship" hidden within the game! He soon learns of the flags that will lead to his ruin, but he will slash them away with his strongest swordsmanship! The grand opening of a super-orthodox fantasy!

A girl who does nothing but lose refuses to give up her daily matches with a certain boy.

Susumu is a high school history teacher who is constantly sleep-deprived due to his next door neighbors in his apartment building having loud, continuous sex every night. The only time he can find time to sleep is during afternoon break at his school. But Ikuno Wakabayashi, a first-year nurse's aid who is drawn to him, always finds some way to get in the way of his much needed rest.

This is a story of bonds and memories, of a man who believed in bonds and continued to care for his comrades. Kazuto, a boy transported to Fernad, a world of swords and magic. As a price for the power bestowed upon him by the Goddess of Bonds, he acts as a "Lost Namer," disappearing from the memories of those he comes into contact with when he leaves his party. Kazuto survives countless adventures and becomes a member of the S-rank Saint Brave Maiden Party. But just before the final battle with the Demon King, he is expelled from the party by the Saint Brave Maiden Romina, and disappears from their memories. Six months later, he hears the good news that the Demon King has been successfully defeated by Romina and her friends. Kazuto, who had been traveling alone as a mere adventurer, returns to town after the battle. His heart is always with them. (Source: Akita Shoten, translated)

The bee Bazou lost family and friends due to the long rain, but lived casual with fellow insects in the same situation. One day, Bazou, who got up early and flew around the forest as usual, found an injured bee and ran up. While a horde of wasps flew over the sky, the bee held back the hornet, leaving behind a mysterious soliloquy and entrusting the mysterious object "Odai" to the hornet, disappearing into the horde of wasps. Bazou returns to the house with "Odai" where friends are waiting, but he is informed of the shocking fact that many of Bazou's fellow bees were killed by a horde of wasps. He takes "Odai" and seeks the survival of honeybees with his friends, and plans to rebuild the honeybee kingdom. Wasps, aiming for "Oudai", invade their dwelling place and kill their friends one after another. Everyone but Bazou died. Soon after, Bazoo leaves alone with "Oudai".

What will the cruel fate of Michi and his friends be, living as they do in the debris left by the war ?

A collection of 24 short stories with protagonists struggling with stress at work. Each of them represents a different kind of job. Some of them are quite normal, like a novelist or a dancer, but some are less typical, like an elephant tamer or even a rabbit-powered bus driver.