Collecting a handful of self-published shorts along with a mix of serialized stories and essays, panpanya's English-language debut mixes art styles and narratives from a range of genres.
If you are ever fortunate enough to see a crab strolling through your neighborhood, please follow its lead. By slowing down to a crab's pace and looking around and about in this world, you too…
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About a girl with stammer aggravated by social anxiety, and her early days in her high school class.
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This goes on for two years until he's paid an unexpected visit by a man…
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