Kusano has a bright future with his fancy university degree and new job. yet, it is not to be. The blood sucking financial giant at which he works goes broke and ,leaves him on the pavement. When it rains it pours and his father become sill and needs care and money. He has his own debts. Needing cash, he searches for and finds a job rather quickly. The job, however, is illegitimate and involves undesirable activity. What is a man to do?

Tsugumi Kawana becomes an office lady who works at an interior design firm. She is young, excited and single. Coincidence brings her back in the company of her early high school crush Itsuki Ayukawa. They shake hands and are friends again. They begin spending time together again. He works as an architect now, but following a dismal accident is wheelchair-bound.

In a city so dismal it's known only as "the Hole," a clan of Sorcerers has been plucking people off the streets to use as guinea pigs for atrocious "experiments" in the black arts. In a dark alley, Nikaidou found Caiman, a man with a reptile head and a bad case of amnesia. To undo the spell, they're hunting and killing the Sorcerers in the Hole, hoping that eventually they'll kill the right one. But when En, the head Sorcerer, gets word of a lizard-man slaughtering his people, he sends a crew of "cleaners" into the Hole, igniting a war between two worlds.

In every corner of the world robotic people join social networks and give their time and privacy away in the name of connectedness. These people are social voyeurs, narcissists and attention addicts. Japan is not any different. A woman is a photographer. Another arrives in the country's capital city looking for her fame. People are inspired by a social network star.

Seizaki Zen is a prosecutor with the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors' Office. While investigating illegal acts by a certain pharmaceutical company, Seizaki stumbles across a conspiracy over an election for an autonomous "new zone" established in western Tokyo.

The protagonist, Baki Hanma, trains with an intense focus to become strong enough to surpass his father, Yujiro Hanma, the strongest fighter in the world.

A gambling prodigy comes to an elite school run by games and turns the order upside down.