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"Alright, hold on a second. Let me take a guess. You just arrived in the big city, completely clueless, and you went from being part of the majority to a mere subpopulation in just a few hours. You said goodbye to your seaside home to end up in the equivalent of a broom closet with not much more to your name than a shipwrecked sailor, am I right?"
Kuroo Tetsuro, 22 years old, like his entire family and every person he has ever met, is a beta. When he arrives in Tokyo, the only place in the country where betas are just a mere subpopulation among others, he naively believes that statistics won’t change much in his life. Gross miscalculation on his part, and he quickly realizes it when he is thrust into a completely unfamiliar world governed by an absurd set of rules, where he has to question everything he ever knew, about justice, love, and himself.- Language:
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12 Jun 2026
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"Someone read one of my pieces."
Kenma's eyes light up with intrigue, but he remains silent, waiting for Akaashi to explain. "I accidentally saved it to a front desk computer. One of my co-workers read it...and they wrote a note."
Or: Akaashi struggles for his dream job and Bokuto has a gay awakening.
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12 Jun 2026
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When Bokuto moved from Tokyo to the mountains outside Kyoto for college, he'd been planning to make new friends, play volleyball, and maybe ask out the very cute setter on his new team. He had not been expecting the crazy superstitions, constant ghost stories, and how seriously they took Halloween.
He definitely had not been expecting to (accidentally!) resurrect one of the three great oni of Japanese history because he wanted to look cool.
That wasn't in the plan, but at least when Halloween gets unexpectedly crazy, Bokuto had his best friends by his side.
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A Hocus Pocus inspired Halloween special featuring Bokuaka, shapeshifting cats, too many ghosts, and a quest to make sure an ancient demon doesn't come back to life permanently.
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12 Jun 2026
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“You won’t forget about me when you make all these shiny new college friends, right?”
He played it off as a casual question, but Kenma sensed the underlying seriousness in the almost delicate way he asked—vulnerability seeping through his voice despite the attempted nonchalant delivery.
“I couldn’t even if I tried,” he admitted as his head lay on Kuroo’s chest, the older man rubbing his back like a cat. It was intimate moments like this that made Kenma question everything, having to remind himself that they were just friends.
Kenma has depended on Kuroo all his life—to feel comfortable, to make friends, to be understood. Until he realizes that he’s gay, and that he has to go on this journey of self-discovery himself, lest his secret feelings for his straight best friend make things even harder.
So he ventures out to college on his own in an attempt to understand himself and his sexuality, and to prove to himself that he didn’t need Kuroo by his side to do it (also to tamp down his feelings for the guy, but that proves to be much more difficult).
It makes him feel freer than he thought, and it makes Kuroo feel a little sidelined. Realizations ensue.
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12 Jun 2026
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There was no denying it: Kuroo was in love with his best friend, and he didn't think it was mutual. Afraid of ruining their friendship, he decided to go to Uni on the other side of the world, hoping his feelings would fade. They didn't.
Their paths cross again four years later. Kenma wants nothing to do with him and Kuroo will do everything he can in order to get him back.
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- Part 1 of We Can Be Giants
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