The Whale's Back

Kujira and Takeshi are childhood friends in their second year of middle school. When they were little, there was no difference between boys and girls, and they all played together, but lately, both the people around them and they themselves have been acting strange. This is the story of the stormy adolescence that clashes as their self-consciousness screams and their bodies grow!

Award: Won the Autumn 2019 Afternoon Four Seasons Awards Four Seasons Grand Prize, earning its publication in Afternoon's December 2019 Issue.