Higehiro: After Being Rejected, I Shaved and Took in a High School Runaway

Yoshida, an ordinary salaryman, wakes up on a quiet Sunday to find a stranger asleep in his small apartment: Sayu Ogiwara, a high school girl he doesn’t recognize. The night before, after working up the nerve to confess to his boss and longtime crush Airi Gotou—only to be turned down—he drank with his friend Hashimoto and stumbled home, where he met Sayu, a runaway asking for a place to stay.

With his memory hazy, Yoshida presses Sayu to explain what happened and why she’s there. Learning more about her situation, including that she came all the way from Hokkaido, he can’t bring himself to send her back out, even as he wrestles with the implications of taking in an underage girl. Their unexpected shared life begins from that uneasy, compassionate decision.