The Dangers in My Heart

Kyoutarou Ichikawa comes off as a quiet, withdrawn middle schooler, yet his inner monologue is steeped in violent fantasies—especially toward his popular classmate, Anna Yamada. What begins as a fixation on her quickly wavers when he starts noticing sides of her that don’t match the image he’d built in his head.

Ichikawa often hides away in the school library, only to repeatedly cross paths with Yamada. Their small, frequent encounters reveal that the admired “model” student can be surprisingly clueless and bad at reading the atmosphere. As the distance between them shrinks, Ichikawa’s dark impulses give way to unexpected affection and a growing urge to look out for her, hinting at feelings he never planned to have.