Will You Go on a Picnic with Me?

by Kyoko Hamano

illus. by Akane Malbeni

Yuya, a wealthy boy attending an elite school gets caught up in a street fight. He is saved by a girl called Kisei, a student at a low-ranking school who works part-time to help with family finances. Although they struggle to reconcile their differences, they both start to feel a compelling attraction. When two people from wildly different backgrounds fall in love, will the worlds they live in seem to change? This unlikely love story is set against the uncomfortable reality of social disparity in modern Japan.

20 x 14 cm, 250 pages, Black-and-white illustrations
First published March 2021