[Everyday life + slow pace]
Twenty-eight-year-old ex-convict Kiryu Kenichi returned from prison to find that Tokyo’s unending cold rain, which had lasted five years, still hadn’t stopped.
Everything had changed. His hometown and old home had vanished without a trace. When he collapsed in despair, the widowed izakaya owner Sato Mayumi took him in with a warm bowl of cat rice.
To repay her kindness, Kenichi protected the little shop from every thug who came its way. Before long, he also discovered that the entire neighborhood was being devoured by organized crime through all kinds of despicable tactics.
He brought together a group of people from the bottom rung of society and faced the vast forces of darkness with nothing but courage. Through the years from Heisei to Reiwa, they guarded their neighborhood and protected its warmth with their little lights, keeping the lamps of the Seagull Izakaya burning bright, always and forever.
