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Koshino’s debut manga collection, My Neighbor, presents a compelling anthology of interconnected stories exploring the unexpected bonds formed between people living side by side. In the first tale, Inumaru is entirely content with his quiet, predictable life managing a convenience store. However, his comfortable routine is shattered when a woman named Sakura literally falls into his world, forcing him to confront unfamiliar experiences that challenge everything he thought he knew about himself. The collection delves deeper into complex emotions through Kawabata, who has harbored tender feelings for his first love, Nishijima, for an entire decade. When a severe snowstorm traps them together inside an abandoned factory with no one else around, their desperate need for warmth pushes Kawabata to the very limits of his self-restraint. Meanwhile, another story follows Higashi, whose mornings are constantly ruined by his neighbor's blaring alarm clock. When he finally decides to intervene, he is unexpectedly handed a key to the neighbor's home instead of a confrontation, setting off a chain of events that forever alters both of their lives. Through these intimate narratives, Koshino examines just how far trust can stretch between neighbors.