October 15, 2002. Toru Hasuike waited anxiously and nervously at the airport for his younger brother Kaoru, who was abducted by North Korean agents on July 31, 1978. However, being imprisoned and under strict monitoring in North Korea for 24 years, Kaoru is no longer the same person and has become a liaison for North Korean government. Toru then determined to use every manner he could think of to persuade Kaoru to stay in Japan.

Dreaming of becoming a popular manga artist, Urashima-kun enters a manga school called "Tokyo Manga Academy." With a mixture of hope and anxiety, he takes his first step into the world of manga creation… where he encounters all sorts of strange characters! A former delinquent who loves Yaoi, a beautiful but sharp-tongued teacher, a high school girl who throws herself on the ground to apologize, a French history buff…This is a tale of manga school life, that illustrates the youth, the successes, and the failures of manga school students! (Source: Silent Manga Audition)

Nagata spent 11 years in an orphanage starting at the age of four. He, along with his two older sisters, entered a facility in the Yoshikata neighborhood of the town of Shounai in Yamagata prefecture. There, Nagata continued to live his childhood while facing the confusion about the sudden changes in his surroundings. The story plans to show how his life in the orphanage eventually accumulated into his current career. (Source: Anime News Network)

Tokyo is a big city with a population of 12.5 million people. In this metropolis, a man who lives with a mind that isn't easily satisfied meets a woman, and from there a little sad love story begins. (Source: MyAnimeList)