KAWASHIMA

A strange virus is making its way around the globe, causing its victims to commit suicide. In less than a week, it's become a lethal pandemic. Now a group of Tokyo teens who have survived the outbreak are wondering why they are still alive.

“You are just like my hopeless alcoholic mother,” Sarah was told by her first love, Raoul, who took her viriginity, before he broke up with her. Five years have passed and Sarah, working as a temp janitor, freezes in front of the elevator. There is Raoul in a suit with a beautiful woman at his side. She wishes not to reveal herself to Raoul, now the head of a bank. He doesn't know her secret, that she had his child, Oliver, and she tries to disappear from the scene.

Kass felt like she’d been struck by lightning when she locked eyes with a passionate stranger while on the fashion show stage. That mesmerizing gaze belonged to Leo, a refugee from Eastern Europe. They fell in love instantly, but destiny didn’t smile on them—soon after, Leo was in an accident and barely survived. Then he disappeared from Kass’s life. One day he showed up again, but by then she had twins and her career as a designer had taken off. Leo, it seems, is heir to his country’s throne and has come to collect his queen-to-be and his little princesses!

Tomoru Arihira works in a plant-based goods company. While he does his best every day by devoting himself to his work and the sweets he’s fond of, in reality, he’s in the middle of a divorce with his wife, a popular actress…?! Will they be separated or not? A story about two struggling people, wrapped in a diary of sweets.