Sleeping on Paper Boats, Vol. 1: Volume 1
By (Author) Teki Yatsuda
Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc
SuBLime
16th December 2025
United States
General
Fiction
Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Romance
Paperback
250
Width 127mm, Height 181mm
156g
A cursed screen-writing prodigy with a poisoned pen is pulled out of his drunken stupor by a fresh-faced amateur photographer who gives hislife new meaning.
A young screenwriter who has skyrocketed to success on the back of his groundbreaking writing abilities discovers his pen is poisoned when all the people he has based his characters on meet untimely deaths. When a new love interest sparks his creativity, will he risk further misfortune or retire his pen forever
Kei Kitahara, a visionary screenwriter who has taken postwar Japan by storm, has made the difficult decision to lay down his pen for good after he realizes the people hes been basing his characters on have all met unfortunate ends. He spends his days in misery, waiting to die, until a reason to live finds him in the gutter, too drunk and beaten to move. Kei cant help but be attracted to his saviorsbewitching innocence, and the urge to write about him grows stronger by the day. Knowing he cant take the risk, he vows to never use his pen against him, but will temptation prove too great