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This June, we're reading Honeybees and Distant Thunder by Riku Onda! Join us for this read in Seitokai’s Discord!

In a small coastal town just a stone's throw from Tokyo, a prestigious piano competition is underway. Over the course of two feverish weeks, three friends will experience some of the most joyous - and painful - moments of their lives. Though they don't know it yet, each will profoundly and unpredictably change the others, for ever.

Aya was a piano genius, until she ran away from the stage and vanished; will the tall and talented Makun bring her back? Or will it be child of nature, Jin, a pianist without a piano, who carries the sound of his father's bees wherever he goes? Each of them will break the rules, awe their fans and push themselves to the brink. But at what cost?

This month we’re reading 本なら売るほど 1. Join us for this read in Seitokai’s Discord!

This June, we’re reading 黒蜥蜴. Join us for this read in Seitokai’s Discord!

This March, we're reading She and Her Cat by Naruki Nagakawa and Makoto Shinkai! Join us for this read in Seitokai’s Discord!

This is the story of Miyu, a woman who lives alone with her cat, Chobi. As Miyu navigates the world of adulthood, she discovers both the freedom and loneliness that come with living independently, and Chobi learns of the outside world through her actions. Time drifts slowly for Miyu and her cat, but the harsh realities of the world soon catch up…

 This month we’re reading とんがり帽子のアトリエ 1. Join us for this read in Seitokai’s Discord!

Just a girl from a small village, Coco has long yearned to become a wizard. Unfortunately, a person who has not used magic from birth cannot become a wizard, and they must never look upon magic as it is being cast... Not being magic at birth, Coco had given up on her wizarding dreams for good. However, one day, the wizard Qifrey uses magic upon his visit to the village, and Coco breaks the rules to glance upon it... This is a story of the despair and hope of a young girl.

This March, we’re reading 木になった亜沙. Join us for this read in Seitokai’s Discord!

Asa, whose wish came true and reincarnated as a cedar tree, becomes a disposable chopstick and meets a young man (“Asa Who Became a Tree”). Acorns and dodgeballs somehow never hit Nanami. “Go Nanami, if you get hit it's over!” everyone cheers her on (“Nanami Who Became the Target”). The man she met in the nighttime shopping district took her to a house. But it seems it wasn't her “real mother's” house... (“Memories of One Night”).

Three strange, unsettling, and pure love stories by the acclaimed author who won the Akutagawa Prize for The Woman in the Purple Skirt (Imamura Natsuko).

This month we’re reading Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao! Join us for this read in Seitokai’s Discord!

On a backstreet in Tokyo lies a pawnshop, but not everyone can find it. Most will see only a cosy ramen restaurant. And just the chosen ones – those who are lost – will find a place to pawn their life choices and deepest regrets.

Hana Ishikawa wakes on her first morning as its new owner to find the pawnshop ransacked, the shop’s most precious acquisition stolen and her father missing. And then into the shop stumbles a charming stranger, quite unlike other customers. For he offers help, instead of seeking it.

Together, they must journey through a mystical world to find Hana’s father and the stolen choice – through rain puddles, hitching rides on paper cranes, across the bridge between midnight and morning and through a night market in the clouds.

But as they get closer to the truth, Hana must reveal a secret of her own – and risk making a choice she will never be able to take back. 

 This month we're reading よふかしのうた 1. Join us for this read in Seitokai’s Discord!

Kou Yamori is an average middle school student who struggles with grasping the complex concept of love. Because he sees little sense in surrendering to the norm, he soon stops going to school. Plagued with insomnia due to his idleness, Kou begins roaming the lonesome streets at night.

One night, Kou encounters a bizarre girl named Nazuna Nanakusa who believes that people stay awake during the night because they are dissatisfied with how they spent their day and cannot rest until they release their inhibitions. Nazuna offers to help Kou with his sleep issues and invites him over to her place, where she convinces him to share a futon with her. Feeling uncomfortable, Kou only pretends to doze off—which is when Nazuna suddenly bites his neck, revealing herself to be a vampire!

While Kou thinks the bite will turn him into a vampire, the specifics of transforming are not that simple. In order to change, he must be bitten by someone he truly loves. Ready to let go of his dreary mortal life, Kou decides on a new goal: he will fall in love with Nazuna and become a vampire himself.