Choking on Love Series

STAKING A CLAIM

The arts festival may be winding down but emotions across campus are still high! While running a t-shirt booth with her best friend Airi, Hibari gets a much-needed confidence boost from her first sale. But when some social media buzz about Gaku reaches her phone, she can’t help worrying that her new boyfriend is going viral again for all the wrong reasons.

Later, when Rihito shows up to attend Pantera Negra’s end-of-festival concert, things are thrown into chaos yet again by a sudden on-stage shoutout and some impromptu PDA!

LOVE BY DESIGN

Summer break has come to an end, and the university art festival is just around the corner. While Hibari has always wanted to participate, her lack of confidence has been holding her back. Lucky for her, her new free-spirited boyfriend Gaku has confidence to spare! He encourages her to take the plunge and sign up. Meanwhile, Hibari’s best friend Airi has decided to finally confess her feelings to Gaku’s bandmate, Takeru!

RED-HOT RIVALRY

Hibari has finally admitted she’s in love with Gaku, and these two unlikely lovebirds are officially dating! Unaccustomed to the whirlwind lifestyle of a free-spirited guy like Gaku, Hibari does her best to keep her head above water in both her relationship and her classes. But things get more complicated when she learns the true identity of a popular rival musician is none other than her childhood friend, Rihito! And it looks like he’s not interested in staying in the friendzone!

COLOR MY WORLD

In the short time Hibari has spent with Gaku, she’s done everything she can to keep from being swept off her feet by the uninhibited young musician. But all that goes out the window after she plants a drunken kiss on Gaku that he is determined to not let her forget! Between receiving special attention from him during his band’s live shows and Gaku casually setting her heart aflutter in their everyday interactions, Hibari isn’t sure she can slow things down…or if she even wants to!

Opposites attract in this shojo romance about a career-focused artist and the bad-boy guitarist who turns her world upside down!

Hibari, a single-minded art student with dreams of becoming a graphic designer, feels insecure about being “ordinary” compared to her peers. Gaku, a free-spirited guitarist from the same university, turns her world upside down after a chaotic encounter at a ramen shop. Hibari wants nothing more than to escape the disorder Gaku brings to her perfectly planned life. But as he slowly breaks down her walls, Hibari starts to realize that a little chaos might be just what she needs.