Hitoshi Ashinano is most noted for Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, for which he won Afternoon magazine's Four Seasons Award for debut works and the 2007 Seiun Award for Best Science Fiction Manga. His work usually has a laid-back, nostalgic style with undertones of mystery. With that being said, this collection is not going to set your pulse racing against any inauspicious suspension. Instead, it induces a bizarre sense of enigmatic serenity, which surely is an unusual experience for readers.