Sanae Kitajima is a psychiatrist specializing in end-of-life care. Her boyfriend, Takanashi, who once struggled with a deep fear of death, returns from an Amazon expedition profoundly changed. What happened during the expedition? What is the true meaning behind his cryptic words, "I can hear the whispers of angels"? (Source: Asahi Shimbun Shuppan, translated)

The Aburanokoji incident. It was the final internal conflict within the Shinsengumi, and the largest conflict in the history of Japanese swordsmanship. In the turmoil-filled closing days of the Tokugawa Shogunate, a mere seven swordsmen had to take on the Shinsengumi in Kyoto in order to collect the bodies of their assassinated footmen, and it was there on that one gruesome, bloody night that the feelings of the swordsmen intersect... Source: Shogakukan