Gene Bride Series

IS DESTINY WRITTEN IN OUR GENES?

Isahaya Ichi and Masaki Makuhito have infiltrated the University of Shukokan Medical Center to save Ichi’s best friend who disappeared years ago. However, they soon discover that Edo Enami isn’t the only secret Shukokan is hiding. Those known as “Insiders” are actually designer babies created through gene manipulation.

Things then take a turn for the worse when campus security suddenly captures Ichi because of an even bigger secret related to the younger Ichi—the girl with the same face. Will the two Ichis be able to escape the fate that Shukokan decided for them even before they were born?

The final volume!

MYSTERIES OF THE PAST COLLIDE WITH THE PRESENT!

When Isahaya Ichi was in school, her best friend, Edo Enami, suddenly disappeared. To track her down, Ichi asked former classmate Masaki Makuhito for help. Eventually, the two discover that Enami is in the hospital, but with no way to get inside, Ichi turns to Adzuru Taro, one of the people responsible for Enami’s disappearance. Taro is entirely different from his student days, having become a politician who campaigns for gender equality. Can Ichi help her friend in time, even as the school’s many mysteries continue to come to light?

REALITY IS STRANGER THAN FICTION…

Isahaya Ichi has reunited with her former classmate, Masaki Makuhito, a man who was once her partner in a school experiment called “Gene Bride” that matched people based on DNA. Now, she can’t stop thinking about her friend, Edo Enami, who went to the same school as them. Longing to catch up with Enami, Ichi asks Makuhito for help, but on the day they meet up, they encounter a teenage girl with the same face and name as Ichi. Who is this mysterious girl? Finally, the truth of Ichi and Enami’s school life is brought to light!

A sci-fi drama about a woman sick of workplace misogyny and the man she just happened to be matched with in a middle school experiment!

Isahaya Ichi is fed up with men, a woman navigating a world where she’s underestimated at work because of her gender and sexually harassed. But when her former classmate, Masaki, unexpectedly shows up, everything changes. He claims to be the other half of her “destined pair” from a junior high school event called “Gene Bride,” where genetic information matched students into couples for a day. While Ichi barely remembers the event, Masaki’s sudden reappearance sparks a journey of rediscovery and buried secrets.