Nomination for 2026-03-24

Kabukicho, Shinjuku. There\'s a love hotel here where I work as a live-in cleaner—or at least, that\'s my day job. By night, I suffer from chronic insomnia with just one cure: killing people. So I moonlight as a yakuza bigwig\'s pet killer, waiting for him to toss me a bone and order a hit so I can sleep. Might sound like a fine line to walk, but my life\'s pretty quiet. Pretty stable. Until I meet this call girl, Azami. Having sex with her got me a night of sleep so peaceful, I\'ve been mulling over...

Izumi Tsubasu x Palette 14th project. ― Shiromitsukawa A city that other than being a academic town, doesn\'t have any special characteristic. There has been some attempts at revitalization in order to attract tourists, but it achieved no success. However, for an unexpected reason the city began to gather the people\'s attention. Niimi Kakeru is a boy that despite the hasty attitude, has a strong sense of responsibility. He seems to be an ordinary student with a kind personality, but after a sacre...

For my whole life, I never had a girlfriend. People could laugh at me all they want, but I refused to give up on my ideals when it came to love. I had always pictured a first encounter where I knew right away she was my destined one. After several chance run-ins, we would exchange numbers. Then we would hang out together on the weekends. Only once we\'ve grown close enough would it be time for a real date. I wouldn\'t have accepted any love that didn\'t develop like a storybook romance. Picking up ...

A song drifted in, carried by the cold wind’s embrace— It matched the guitar I played in the music room steeped in twilight. It echoed the piano someone played in the room next door. And then, from the rooftop, a voice rang out. High and clear, like the chiming of bells, weaving the three scattered melodies into one. It all began in late autumn. When someone fell in love. We were all giving our everything. We were all pressing forward, driven by feelings we couldn\'t hold back. We were all earnes...

In a world where flying through the sky is as simple as riding a bicycle, the sport \"Flying Circus\" is all the rage. Following the discovery of anti-gravitons, special shoes that allow an individual to fly, Anti-Graviton Shoes, took the world by storm. And with the Grav Shoes came an entirely new world for people to explore. Not long after, that revolution in technology gave birth to a brand new sport, Flying Circus, which used shoes to make players compete in the open sky. Hinata Masaya, who wa...