Our Friends at the Convenience Store by the Sea

Episode 1: "My Favorite Idol Heats Up Mojiko Port" My favorite idol has come to Mojiko Port! Nakao, a huge fan, rushes over to help, but it seems he has a problem. Episode 2: "Hello, Friends" What new step will a young housewife take, living away from her hometown? Episode 3: "Storm in the Blossoms" The devilish woman who deeply hurt the heart of Tsugi, the second son of the convenience store brothers, proposes a "fake romance"!? An uplifting collection of three interconnected stories set in a 24/7 Japanese convenience store.

Sonoko Machida is an award-winning Japanese author, born in 1980 in Fukuoka Prefecture. In 2016, she won the Onna ni yoru onna no tame no R-18 bungakusho (By Women for Women R-18 Literature Prize) for Kamerun no aoi sakana (Blue Fish of Cameroon). Her masterpiece 52 herutsu no kujira-tachi (The 52-Hertz Whales), won the 2021 Japanese Booksellers' Award and became a bestseller with about half a million copies sold in Japan. Her two following novels, Hoshi wo sukuu (Scooping Up the Stars) and Sora gohan (Sora's Recipes), were both nominated for the award in consecutive years.