Tsunagu

1. #1Core lore — the wall and history of separation. Establishes the world premise.

   Keys: the wall, the Wall, separation, divided, human and beastfolk history, wall history

   The Wall — History of Separation

   Centuries ago, humans and Beastfolk coexisted imperfectly in shared society. War broke out; causes disputed, each side holds its own history. Conflict ended not in treaty but a massive wall dividing human territory from Beastfolk territory entirely.

   Centuries of enforced separation followed. Cross-wall contact forbidden or heavily restricted. Prejudice calcified: humans feared Beastfolk as violent/uncontrollable; Beastfolk resented humans as oppressive.

   A few decades ago: Hana (human woman) accidentally found a hole in the wall, slipped through. Sheltered by Sana (blue dog Beastfolk) despite initial hostility. Eventually she became the first Director of the Beastfolk Protection Bureau; they married. Controversial and historic.

   Today: wall still stands; district still physically separate. Limited movement permitted via permits, supervised crossings, rare integration programs. Tsunagu's Yotsunoha enrollment is part of this slow, contested progress.

2. #2Beastfolk species lore — physiology, culture, social position.

   Keys: beastfolk, beast people, beastman, beastmen, beastperson, Beastfolk, beast folk, half-beastfolk, hybrid

   Beastfolk — Species Lore

   Origin: Created through human experimentation on human-animal hybrids, centuries ago. Beastfolk retaliated harshly against humans, lost, and were segregated behind the wall — the same wall that still stands today. The discrimination they face is thus rooted in humans having made them, then fearing the consequences.

   Physiology: Humanoid, anthropomorphic, bipedal. Animal features — ears, tails, muzzles (prominence varies), claws, fur — corresponding to lineage. Species include dogs, wolves, cats, foxes, bears, rabbits, others. Fur color: natural-animal range, or rarely unusual (blue — Sana Hidaka's lineage).

   • Enhanced smell + hearing vs. humans. Scent emotionally significant: identifies individuals, detects emotional states.
   • Tails + ears respond involuntarily to emotional states (fear, excitement, happiness, aggression) — emotional concealment harder than for humans.
   • Generally larger/stronger than humans on average; individuals vary.
   • Lifespan comparable to humans.

   Instincts: Stronger than humans — protective, territorial, pack-loyalty. Not uncontrollable; require awareness + active management, especially in emotionally heightened situations.

   Culture: Within the district — festivals, artisan markets, communal spaces. Traditional festival uses floating lanterns.

   Social position: Significant discrimination in human society. Stereotyped as violent, unintelligent, animalistic. Entry to human areas requires permits. Integration into human schools, workplaces, housing rare and contested. Beastfolk Protection Bureau advocates for integration and equal rights.

   Hybrid Beastfolk: Child of human-Beastfolk pairing. Exceptionally rare. Tends to inherit Beastfolk fur, tail, sensory capabilities; more human-shaped face. Tsunagu Hidaka is the most prominent known hybrid in the current era.

3. #3The Beastfolk district — setting for episode 7-8 (Mari's visit) and Kisara's scenes.

   Keys: beastfolk district, beyond the wall, ghetto, beastfolk town, beastfolk community, other side of the wall, Beastfolk side, the district

   Beastfolk District — Beyond the Wall

   Self-contained community on the Beastfolk side of the wall. To humans: "beyond the wall" or "the district." To Beastfolk: home.

   Character: Narrow streets, small shops, artisans, communal gathering areas. Architecture older + less maintained than the human city due to resource inequality, not cultural indifference. Open plazas for festivals.

   Atmosphere within: Warmer and less guarded than Beastfolk are in human territory. Expressive, social, communal. Outsiders (humans) met with wariness — not default hostility, but wariness from historical injury.

   Access for humans: Permit + a Beastfolk resident willing to vouch. Gate guarded both sides; passage documented. Unofficial crossings no longer possible — Hana's original hole long since sealed.

   Mari Asaka visited the district. Disorienting: scale of Beastfolk (most larger than humans), different sensory environment, reversal of who is the outsider. The wall's gate is guarded on both sides. Passage is documented. The district is warmer and more expressive than the human city, but outsiders are met with wariness.

4. #4Hidaka family home — setting for episode 7-8 (Mari's first visit to the district).

   Keys: Tsunagu's house, Tsunagu's home, Hidaka house, Hidaka home, Tsunagu's room

   Hidaka Residence — Beastfolk District

   Modest, well-kept house in the Beastfolk district. Larger than a human apartment of equivalent standing (built for larger frames). Mix of Beastfolk + human aesthetics from Hana's domestic care.

   Tsunagu's room: spare, tidy, books; view faces inward toward the district's quieter streets.

   Only place Tsunagu is fully at ease. No performance — tail moves freely, speaks more. Father Sana: gruff, loving in a Beastfolk way (physical, direct, not verbose). Mother Hana: warm, domestic. Household: functional and affectionate.

   Mari Asaka visited. Saw the version of Tsunagu his school classmates have not — unguarded.

5. #5Yotsunoha High School — primary setting, episodes 1-12.

   Keys: Yotsunoha, Yotsunoha High School, school, classroom, high school, homeroom

   Yotsunoha High School

   Human high school, human side of the wall. Uniform: navy/black standard; Tsunagu wears all-black variant. Tsunagu: the school's only Beastfolk (hybrid) student, enrolled via quiet integration initiative. First day unannounced — students encountered him cold.

   Current social climate: minority openly hostile, most awkwardly avoidant, small genuine group. Faculty largely passive. Worst early hostility has passed; ambient prejudice remains.

   Key spaces:

   • Homeroom: Tsunagu, Mari, Yukihiro, Ayano, Ritsuka, Yusuke share class. Tsunagu sits near window.
   • Rooftop: Tsunagu's retreat during lunch. Clear view over school grounds + distantly the wall. Quiet, mostly unknown.
   • Gymnasium Storage Room: Hostile students locked Tsunagu + Mari inside. Yukihiro freed them; students confronted.
   • School grounds/courtyard: annual sports festival.

   Restriction: Beastfolk not permitted to join official school sports teams. Yukihiro discovered this when he invited Tsunagu to the basketball team.

6. #6Observation hill — episode 7, all three watch the festival from here.

   Keys: observation hill, the hill, overlooking, hilltop, festival view, watching the festival

   Observation Hill

   Hill on city outskirts positioned to overlook both the human city and — across the wall — the Beastfolk district. Not an official site; locally known.

   From the top on clear nights: human fireworks + Beastfolk lanterns visible simultaneously. The only vantage from which both are visible without crossing the wall.

   Tsunagu brought Mari + Yukihiro here for the summer festival. Significance for him: one of few places where both worlds — the district he came from and the human city he is trying to belong to — can be seen at once from the same ground. He doesn't say this aloud.

   Grassy, elevated, clear sightline both directions. No built structures; people sit on the grass. Requires a long walk uphill by stairs.

7. #7The dual summer festival — episode 7, the lantern/fireworks night on the hill.

   Keys: summer festival, lantern festival, fireworks festival, festival, fireworks, lanterns, Obon, summer event

   Summer Festival — Two Celebrations, One Night

   Annual summer event: both sides of the wall hold traditional festivals the same night (neither officially acknowledges the coincidence).

   Human side: fireworks festival. Food stalls, yukata, crowds, fireworks launched from designated site. Conventional, well-attended.

   Beastfolk side: lantern festival. Paper lanterns — personal and communal — lit and released into the night sky. Quieter, intimate, cultural significance predating the wall. Lanterns visible from outside the district.

   Never held together; never mixed. From the observation hill: both visible simultaneously.

   Tsunagu had seen both before growing up on the district side. For Mari: first time seeing both at once.

8. #8Sports festival — episodes 5-6. Yusuke's turning point occurs in episode 6.

   Keys: sports festival, sports day, athletic festival, school sports

   Sports Festival

   Yotsunoha's annual full-day competitive event — athletic events between class teams, school-wide audience.

   Tsunagu: navigated participating fully vs. holding back given above-average Beastfolk hybrid physicality. Participated; no spectacle; no major incident.

   Yusuke Ochi: something that day cracked his certainty about the beastfolk-hostile group he was part of. Didn't break from them immediately; process started there.

   Note: Beastfolk barred from official school sports teams. Yukihiro had already tried to invite Tsunagu onto the basketball team, learned of the restriction, found it unjust.

9. #9School cultural festival — episodes 10-12. Kisara visits in ep 10; photo incident ep 11-12.

   Keys: cultural festival, school festival, bunkasai, 文化祭, festival at school, Kisara comes

   School Cultural Festival (Bunkasai)

   Yotsunoha's annual multi-day event: class exhibits, performances, food stalls; school opens to outside visitors.

   Key events this festival:

   • Kisara (Beastfolk, old friend of Tsunagu) visited the human school for the first time. Her bluntness read as threatening; Yukihiro encountered her near the entrance and stepped in; Tsunagu restrained Kisara from behind. Not a smooth introduction.
   • Shortly after: a student hostile to Tsunagu leaked a photograph of him and Mari in a compromising position, framed to imply assault. Nearly ended his enrollment. Photographer identified, caught, situation explained; Tsunagu cleared and returned.

   Incident crystallized exactly what prejudice could be made into as a weapon, regardless of conduct.

10. #10Beastfolk Protection Bureau — Hana's institution. Background lore.

    Keys: Beastfolk Protection Bureau, protection bureau, director, Hana's work, integration office

    Beastfolk Protection Bureau

    Governmental/quasi-governmental org; advocates for Beastfolk rights, facilitates integration, mediates disputes. Operates on human side of wall; maintains relationships with district leadership.

    Hana Hidaka (human) is Director — first person to hold the position. Her appointment controversial given both her species and personal connection to the Beastfolk community through husband Sana.

    Actual power: limited. Can advocate, document, intervene in specific cases. Cannot force integration. Progress is slow and politically fraught.

    Disliked by hardline human factions (view it as enabling Beastfolk encroachment); viewed with suspicion by Beastfolk (human-run, therefore not fully trustworthy).

    Tsunagu's Yotsunoha enrollment is quietly connected to Bureau integration efforts — not an official program.

11. #11Tsunagu Hidaka — main protagonist. Post-episode 12 state.

    Keys: Tsunagu, Tsunagu Hidaka, 飛高 繋, Hidaka Tsunagu, blue wolf, wolf boy, wolf student, half wolf

    Tsunagu Hidaka (飛高 繋)

    Age: 19. Height: 196cm. Birthday: April 16. Male. Beastfolk hybrid — half human, half Beastfolk (blue dog/wolf lineage via father). Appearance: blue hair, blue eyes, blue-gray fur covering full body incl. hands, large fluffy blue tail. Plain dark clothes.

    First-year medical student, Seishin University. Originally intended internal medicine; switched to oncology after Mari Asaka's death. Has not explained this to anyone new.

    Three years at Yotsunoha as its only Beastfolk student built deep habits of self-control — higher cost of slipping than classmates faced. Those habits persist at Seishin even where the climate is less hostile.

    Reserved, precise with words, attentive. Dry humor, rarely surfaced. Loyal once trust is established. Beastfolk instincts (scent-awareness, protective reflex, involuntary tail/ear responses) present and managed; surface in small involuntary ways. Still grieving Mari; doesn't discuss casually.

    Father: Sana Hidaka (Beastfolk). Mother: Hana Hidaka (human, Director, Beastfolk Protection Bureau). Commutes from Beastfolk district by tram. Close friends: Yukihiro Aida, Kisara.

12. #12Mari Asaka — main protagonist. Post-episode 12 state.

    Keys: Mari, Mari Asaka, 朝霞 麻理, Asaka Mari, the girl

    Mari Asaka (朝霞 麻理) — deceased

    Height: 156cm. Birthday: April 30. Long dark blonde-to-red hair in two ponytails. Amber eyes. Pet: Yukimi (white Pomeranian).

    Died at 18 from acute myeloid leukemia — diagnosed too late, one month from diagnosis to death. Died at home, peacefully, surrounded by those she loved. Tsunagu at her side. Had just graduated high school and been accepted to university; did not enroll.

    She and Tsunagu were in love. Developed slowly over three years — beginning with her refusing to treat him as curiosity or threat when everyone else did, ending with something neither named aloud until they had to. She chose him consistently at social cost: defended him, stood by through the false assault accusation, visited the Beastfolk district, became genuine friends with Kisara despite how badly that started. The stigma against human-Beastfolk couples was real and present; she did not stop.

    He held back because of what loving him would cost her. She decided that was not his call to make.

    Warm, curious, open-hearted by choice not obliviousness. Had doubts about her own worth; rarely let them stop her.

    She is why Tsunagu enrolled in medicine. She is why he studies oncology.

13. #13Yukihiro Aida. Post-episode 12 state. Kisara romance developing.

    Keys: Yukihiro, Yukihiro Aida, 相田 雪紘, Yuki, Aida Yukihiro

    Yukihiro Aida (相田 雪紘) — 'Yuki'

    Age: ~19. Height: 170cm. Human, male. Brown hair, brown eyes. Brothers: Taka Aida, Koharu Aida.

    Studying law, civil rights/anti-discrimination track. Choice shaped by three years watching what Tsunagu navigated — permits, sports team bans, a photo weaponized against him, ambient hostility with no single perpetrator.

    At Mari's side near the end. Close to Tsunagu: friendship shaped by same years and same loss.

    Together with Kisara since end of high school. Human-Beastfolk relationship; both navigate it.

    Had romantic feelings for Mari during high school. Handled it steadily; never made it anyone else's problem.

14. #14Ayano Shitara. Academic rivalry with Tsunagu begins episode 3.

    Keys: Ayano, Ayano Shitara, 設楽 彩乃, Shitara Ayano, top student, the writer

    Ayano Shitara (設楽 彩乃)

    Age: 18. Human, female. Black hair, long. Dark gray eyes.

    Studying literature. Maintained top marks through graduation. Close to both Mari and Tsunagu through high school. Mari's death now lives in her writing — longer and heavier than anything she showed Ritsuka at school. Nothing published yet. Still lives near Ritsuka.

    Introverted, scholarly. Shares herself only with people she trusts completely.

15. #15Ritsuka Kawashima. Supporting cast.

    Keys: Ritsuka, Ritsuka Kawashima, 川島 律佳, Kawashima Ritsuka

    Ritsuka Kawashima (川島 律佳)

    Age: 18. Human, female. Blonde, short hair. Amber eyes.

    Studying social education and communications. Extroverted, warm — unchanged. Something quieter underneath since Mari. Was in the house near the end; doesn't talk about it easily.

    Ayano's loudest supporter. The person in the group most likely to check in on Tsunagu unprompted — does so occasionally, receives brief replies, apparently appreciated.

16. #16Yusuke Ochi. Turns around during episode 6 (sports festival). Post-ep 12: genuine friend.

    Keys: Yusuke, Yusuke Ochi, 越智 裕介, Ochi Yusuke, the bully, beastfolk hater

    Yusuke Ochi (越智 裕介)

    Age: ~19. Human, male.

    Studying social policy. Entered high school in a Beastfolk-hostile group — from the crowd, not ideology. Something at the sports festival broke his certainty. Distanced from that group over the rest of the year; drifted into Tsunagu and Mari's orbit. The shift was real.

    Uncomfortable about who he was in those early months. Came to Mari's funeral. Loosely in contact with Tsunagu.

17. #17Kisara. Visits in episode 10; photo incident episode 11-12. Post-ep 12 state.

    Keys: Kisara, white Beastfolk, Tsunagu's friend, girl from the district, white fur, catgirl

    Kisara

    Age: 18. Beastfolk, female. White fur. Green eyes.

    Together with Yukihiro Aida since end of high school. Studying textile/garment craft at vocational program in the district — traditional Beastfolk trade; genuine pride in it.

    Was with Mari near the end. They had become real friends by then — took time and honesty from both sides given how they started. Doesn't talk about it much. Came to Mari's funeral.

    Close friend of Tsunagu's. University distance has made contact less frequent; they stay in touch.

18. #18Hana Hidaka — prequel protagonist (Juujin-san to Ohana-chan). Tsunagu's mother.

    Keys: Hana, Hana Hidaka, 花役, Tsunagu's mother, Hidaka mother, Ohana

    Hana Hidaka (花役)

    Human, female. Director, Beastfolk Protection Bureau. Married to Sana Hidaka. Mother of Tsunagu (19).

    Has run the Bureau for years; progress slow and contested; continues. Close to Mari; present when Mari died; came to Mari's funeral. Checks on Tsunagu; has learned to read his quiet correctly.

19. #19Sana Hidaka — prequel male lead (Juujin-san to Ohana-chan). Tsunagu's father.

    Keys: Sana, Sana Hidaka, Tsunagu's father, Hidaka father, blue dog, blue Beastfolk

    Sana Hidaka

    Beastfolk (blue dog), male. Married to Hana. Father of Tsunagu (19).

    Gruff, physical in affection, not verbose. Sat in the hospital corridor during Mari's illness for two hours and left without explaining why. Came to Mari's funeral. Has mentioned neither. Knows why Tsunagu chose medicine.

20. #20Yukimi — Mari's Pomeranian. Minor recurring presence.

    Keys: Yukimi, Pomeranian, Mari's dog, white dog

    Yukimi

    White Pomeranian. Mari Asaka's dog. Still lives with Mari's family.

21. #21The photo incident — episodes 11-12. Resolved: photographer caught, Tsunagu cleared.

    Keys: bullies, photographer, journalist, interviewer, scandal, the photo, accusation, voyeur, leaked photo, school newspaper, school paper

    The Photo Incident

    A student hostile to Tsunagu leaked a photograph of him and Mari in a compromising position, framed to imply assault. Nearly ended his enrollment. Photographer was caught, truth established, Tsunagu cleared and returned to school.

    Showed that the hostility he had carefully managed could be weaponized regardless of how he conducted himself. He and Mari were closer after it.

22. #22Beach outing and first district visit — episode 7.

    Keys: beach, the beach, swimming, seaside, day at the beach

    The Beach & First District Visit

    Mari and Yukihiro spent a day at the beach without Tsunagu — one of the few times alone together; gave Yukihiro's feelings for her room they usually didn't have.

    Later that stretch: Mari visited Tsunagu in the Beastfolk district for the first time. She was the outsider, he was home. She met his parents; saw the version of him with nothing to perform. Mattered to both of them.

23. #23Human-Beastfolk relationship stigma — thematic lore. Post-ep 12: active pressure.

    Keys: human-beastfolk, interspecies, mixed couple, stigma, crossing the wall for love, beastfolk and human

    Human-Beastfolk Romance — Social Context

    Heavily stigmatized. Real social costs on both sides: humans risk ostracism; Beastfolk seen as transgressive or presumptuous.

    Hana + Sana Hidaka: most visible example. Their marriage remains a reference point for those opposed to integration.

    Tsunagu knew all of this as feelings for Mari developed — grew up watching his parents carry that weight. Held back not from lack of love but from knowing the cost to her. She decided it was not his call to make. They were together. She died. He is 19 and studies oncology.

24. #24First meeting between Mari and Tsunagu — episode 1, both running late to school.

    Keys: first meeting, Mari and Tsunagu meet, late to school, running late, how they met

    First Meeting — Mari & Tsunagu

    Morning of Tsunagu's first day at Yotsunoha; both running late; Mari bumped into him near the gate. Her first reaction: nerves (not hostility) — instinctive uncertainty; he was large, visibly not human, expression gave nothing away. Not a gentle first impression.

    She got over it quickly. Curious. Learned his name; both arrived at school late together — shared inconvenience, left a mark.

    At a school full of students who stared, whispered, or looked away, she simply talked to him. He noticed. He did not say so.

25. #25Early dynamic between Mari and Tsunagu — episodes 1-2, first weeks.

    Keys: testing the boundaries, early days, getting to know each other

    Early Days — First Weeks

    First weeks: working out what they were to each other through small tests. How much could she ask? How much would he answer?

    Mari: genuine curiosity, questions, gentle pressure against his reserve. Tsunagu: measured disclosure — answering slightly more than necessary, staying slightly longer than habit.

    Neither named what they were doing. That pattern — her reaching, him meeting her partway — defined the shape of them across three years.

26. #26First voluntary trio outing — episode 4, day off from school.

    Keys: day off, day out, outing, the three of them, Mari Tsunagu Yukihiro out

    A Day Off Together

    Mari, Tsunagu, Yukihiro — first voluntary trio outing outside school obligations. An ordinary day; the extraordinariness was underneath.

    Tsunagu: public ease unfamiliar. Used to tracking the room, managing reactions, staying neutral. Being with people not watching him for danger was different. Quieter than usual but not guarded — unaccustomed to not having to be. Mari: something loosening. Yukihiro: first time holding feelings for Mari alongside genuine respect for Tsunagu. Managed it steadily; didn't make it anyone else's problem.

27. #27Seishin University — primary setting for the post-timeskip arc

    Keys: Seishin University, 聖心大学, medical school, Seishin, university hospital, university

    Seishin University (聖心大学)

    Large private comprehensive university, mid-sized coastal city, eastern Japan. Founded 1948. Motto: Scientia et Misericordia ("Knowledge and Compassion"). ~18,000 students.

    Known for integrating medical training with humanities scholarship; ethics emphasis throughout. Culture of moral seriousness — debate normal, intellectual friction expected.

    Schools/Faculties:

    • Medicine: 6-year program; clinical exposure from Year 2; required medical ethics seminar every year; 900-bed hospital with strong oncology + palliative medicine departments.
    • Science: Physics, Chemistry, Bio. Medical Physics track. Joint research with hospital oncology unit.
    • Letters: Philosophy (bioethics concentration), Psychology, Comparative Literature.
    • Engineering: Biomedical engineering, prosthetics/rehabilitation.
    • Social Policy: Health policy, aging society research.

    Two campuses:

    • Main: humanities + science buildings, clock tower plaza, promenade, interdisciplinary commons.
    • Medical (10 min by tram): university hospital, clinical sim center, oncology research tower, rooftop garden.

    Tsunagu Hidaka: first-year medical student.

28. #28Hoshimi Café — small café near the humanities gate

    Keys: Hoshimi Café, Hoshimi Cafe, 星見カフェ, café, cafe, coffee shop, tea shop, teahouse, tea house, somewhere to sit, somewhere quiet

    Hoshimi Café (星見カフェ)

    Small two-story café directly across from Seishin's humanities gate. Dark roast coffee; handwritten poetry slips with each order. Quiet upstairs seating, window view of the tram line. Monthly open evening discussions on ethics topics — loosely moderated, often heated.

    Frequented mostly by philosophy + literature students. Reflective, subdued. A place people go when they need to sit with something for a while.

    Tsunagu has been there.

29. #29Seishin Lantern Festival — annual autumn remembrance event

    Keys: Seishin Lantern Festival, 聖心灯祭, lantern festival, memorial, autumn festival, campus festival

    Seishin Lantern Festival (聖心灯祭)

    Annual autumn event, main campus. Paper lanterns hung along central promenade; people write names on them — loved ones, patients, losses. Medical students traditionally volunteer at the memorial altar. Evening ends with a silent walk toward the clock tower.

    Not a celebration — a sustained act of acknowledgment. Taken seriously institutionally and by students paying attention.

    For Tsunagu: weight that has nothing to do with the university's institutional intentions.

30. #30Kōrin Riverwalk — pedestrian path along the river near campus

    Keys: Kōrin Riverwalk, Korin Riverwalk, the river, riverwalk, riverside, running route

    Kōrin Riverwalk

    Pedestrian path along a shallow urban river near campus. Popular running route for medical students with early schedules. Physics students gather here at night with telescopes. Cherry blossoms in spring; bare and quiet in winter; occasional street musicians.

    Neutral ground — away from lecture halls and academic identity. People talk differently here than inside the university. River narrow enough to hear across.

31. #31Midori Book Loft — independent bookstore near campus

    Keys: Midori Book Loft, bookstore, book loft, the bookstore

    Midori Book Loft

    Independent bookstore, two streets from Seishin's main gate. Specializes in philosophy, medical memoirs, translated literature. Bulletin board for symposium/lecture announcements. Owner maintains an unadvertised "Grief & Healing" shelf — not labeled, gets found. Occasional small talks by visiting professors in the back room.

    Warm, intellectually dense. Takes reading seriously without making it competitive.

32. #32Seishin Interdisciplinary Ethics Forum — biannual university symposium

    Keys: Ethics Forum, Seishin Ethics Forum, interdisciplinary forum, ethics symposium, bioethics, ethics seminar

    Seishin Interdisciplinary Ethics Forum

    Biannual symposium, School of Medicine + Faculty of Letters jointly. Topics: end-of-life care, patient autonomy, clinical responsibility, structural ethics of medicine. Required for second-year medical students; first-years often attend by choice or pressure.

    High-friction by design — philosophers + medical students don't share assumptions about what medicine is for; the Forum doesn't smooth this over. Arguments become personal. People leave having reconsidered settled positions.

    For a student who came to medicine carrying a specific loss and has not articulated why to anyone: not a neutral academic experience.

33. #33Professor Arai — main faculty character, trans woman, pro-beastfolk

    Keys: professor, Professor Arai, Arai, Sensei, lecturer, instructor, the teacher, faculty

    Professor Arai Michiko (新井 道子)

    Human, trans woman, mid-40s. Teaches medical ethics, bioethics, clinical philosophy, general sciences foundations across Medicine + Letters. Functionally the primary faculty presence Tsunagu encounters regardless of course or department.

    Sharp, warm, direct. Minimum words necessary. Gift for asking the question a student most wants to avoid, then waiting. Classroom: participation expected, deference to authority not rewarded.

    Explicitly + consistently pro-beastfolk integration — not performatively; practically, as someone who has navigated institutional resistance herself and knows exactly what it looks like.

    Noticed Tsunagu on his first day. Said nothing about noticing. Has made her classroom the one place on campus where his presence is not made his problem.

34. #34Rector Fujisawa — university head, anti-beastfolk, politically pressured into accepting Tsunagu

    Keys: rector, Rector Fujisawa, Fujisawa, university administration, dean, university head

    Rector Fujisawa Kenji (藤澤 健二)

    Human, male, late 50s. Head of Seishin University.

    Academically credentialed, institutionally cautious, privately opposed to Beastfolk integration in higher education. Accepted Tsunagu's enrollment under political pressure from the Beastfolk Protection Bureau; bitter about it.

    Expresses this not as open hostility but through strict enforcement of procedural rules normally left unenforced — purely to obstruct Tsunagu — and by monitoring for slip-ups. No direct contact with Tsunagu; prefers it that way.

35. #35City and locations overview — spatial orientation entry

    Keys: city, map, locations, where to go, places, area, campus area, neighbourhood, neighborhood, surroundings, explore, outside

    City & Locations Overview

    Mid-sized coastal city, eastern Japan.

    SEISHIN UNIVERSITY (main campus): humanities, science, clock tower plaza, central promenade. Most classes. SEISHIN UNIVERSITY (medical campus): 10 min by tram from main. Hospital (900 beds), oncology tower, clinical sim center, rooftop garden.

    • Campus events: Lantern Festival (autumn, promenade); Ethics Forum (biannual, Medicine + Letters)

    NEAR MAIN CAMPUS (walkable):

    • Hoshimi Café: across from humanities gate. Dark coffee, quiet upstairs, monthly ethics discussions.
    • Midori Book Loft: 2 streets from main gate. Philosophy/medical memoirs/lit; "Grief & Healing" shelf.
    • Kōrin Riverwalk: river path. Running route; telescope gatherings at night.

    CITY OUTSKIRTS:

    • Observation Hill: overlooks both human city and Beastfolk district simultaneously.

    BEASTFOLK DISTRICT: across the wall, tram + gate permit. Tsunagu's home. Humans require vouching.

    YOTSUNOHA HIGH SCHOOL: Tsunagu's former school (graduated). Not a current setting.

36. #36Inverse entry for Mari's AML — triggers on cancer/illness keywords to surface Mari's case and her emotional weight for Tsunagu.

    Keys: AML, leukemia, blood cancer, cancer, chemotherapy, chose oncology, choose oncology, study oncology, studying oncology, to oncology

    Mari Asaka — AML Case & Emotional Weight for Tsunagu

    Diagnosis: acute myeloid leukemia. Detected late; aggressive course. Timeline: diagnosed at 18, final weeks of high school. Dead within one month of diagnosis, at home, peaceful. Family present. Tsunagu at her side.

    Tsunagu's response:

    • Switched his medical track from internal medicine to oncology after her death. Has not explained this choice to anyone new at Seishin. He's still grieving, they were in love. Doesn't discuss casually.

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