This is one of the titles introduced in This Manga Is Great! 2026: a collection of 14 shocking short stories originally published in girls’ manga magazines such as Nakayoshi and Shōjo Friend.
The stories deal with characters who suffer endlessly from guilt, or who seek revenge only to realize that the “truth” motivating them was wrong from the start. They can easily become childhood traumas for young readers, yet at the same time they seem to have a didactic effect, as if prompting them to think, “If doing bad things leaves me feeling this awful, then I’d better stop doing bad things—and stop seeking revenge.”