Awkward In Ikebukuro

JMOtheAuthor 31 stories

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Summary

Subscribers to the VIP Access & Exclusive Content Tier can read the entire novella right now, before it is scheduled for a soft release on the Early Access Tier and an official release on the Free Tier in the near future. Eojin Aragaki has one rule for his six months in Tokyo: nobody finds out his last name. As the black sheep of Japan’s most famous kaiju family, younger brother to the legendary, city-stomping, billboard-dominating Gigidon, he’s spent his entire life being the one who can’t transform, the reactor with no release valve, the Aragaki who glows at inconvenient moments and grows a single claw in a 7-Eleven. All he wants is six months of being nobody. What he gets instead is Hiapo Wailea, a sunshine-personified Hawaiian exchange student who shows up with a ukulele, a bag of snacks, and the inexplicable ability to accidentally give the entire dormitory a plague. The moment they shake hands, something impossible happens: Eojin’s body, for the first time in seven years, goes quiet. And Hiapo’s world, for the first time in his life, stops feeling like static. Neither of them knows why. Neither of them is ready to find out. But Tokyo, it turns out, has opinions about that. And it’s about to make those opinions very, very loud.