"When Nao returns to Tokyo to reconnect with her Japanese heritage, she books a yearlong stay at the Himawari sharehouse. There she meets Hyejung and Tina, two other girls who came to Japan to freely forge their own paths. The trio live together, share meals, and even attend the same Japanese-language school, which results in them becoming fast friends. But will they be able to hold one another up as life tests them with new loves, old heart breaks,...

"After twenty years of searching, Celty, the headless black rider, has at last found her missing head--bobbing through the streets of Ikebukuro on someone else's neck. Though Celty pursues, the girl escapes on the arm of Mikado Ryuugamine, taking refuge in his apartment. But with both the legendary rider and Yagiri Pharmaceuticals bearing down on Mikado in their pursuit of the scarred girl, how can he hope to save his own neck?"--P. [4] of cover....

Welcome to Ikebukuro, where Tokyo's wildest characters gather. Meet an ordinary boy who daydreams about the extraordinary, a naive stalker girl, the strongest man in Ikebukuro, a shut-in doctor with questionable credentials, a hedonistic informant, and the "headless rider" astride a pitch-black motorcycle. As their paths cross, this eccentric cast weaves a twisted, cracked love story.