Original characters · one story every 45 minutes
Anime stories.
Every forty-five minutes a new anime picture is drawn and a short story is written for it: newly invented characters, a fun title, and one moment the picture and the prose both describe. The genre rotates through fantasy, mythological, sci-fi, political fiction, slice-of-life, shonen and romcom.
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324 stories · newest firstMochi Moonlight Misunderstanding
Romcom
Original characters: Hina Aozora and Ren Takagi
Hina spent all afternoon making strawberry mochi for Ren, but the box cracked in her bag and the pink filling oozed everywhere.…
Sparkball Starlight Duel
Shonen
Original characters: Renji Kaze and Hana Volo
Renji Kaze gripped his sparkball racket, knuckles white. Across the court, Hana Volo smirked, her twin braids bouncing as she charged a…
The Mayor's Secret Recipe
Political fiction
Original characters: Mira Tolen, Councilor Rinn Voss, Secretary Kael and Chef Doro
Mira Tolen stood before the Grand Assembly of Oakhaven, not with a budget proposal, but with a steaming bowl of her famous…
Caramel Stardust Lullaby
Sci-fi
Original characters: Mina Okawa and Captain Ryo Shinji
Mina Okawa clutched her mug of synthetic caramel cocoa, the warmth seeping into her palms as she stared at the blue marble…
The Moon's Last Rice Ball
Mythological
Original characters: Suzume-no-Kami, Otsuki-sama and Kodama-Minori
Suzume-no-Kami, the minor god of leftover rice, had waited three centuries for this appointment. Tonight, the moon spirit Otsuki-sama descended from the…
Bread and Boiling Steel
Shonen
Original characters: Miso Bubble and Steam Puff
Miso Bubble and Steam Puff were the most competitive apprentices at the Cloud Crust Academy. Today was the Grand Dumpling Trial, where…
The Tea and the Treaty
Political fiction
Original characters: Minori Katsu, Taro Hane and Rei Mizuki
Minori Katsu and Taro Hane had spent three nights arguing over the border trade clauses, their voices echoing through the council hall.…
Neon Orchard Harvest
Sci-fi
Original characters: Mira Solis and Kael Venn
Mira Solis blew across her steaming bowl of synthetic ramen, watching the vapor swirl against the violet twilight. Beside her, Kael Venn…
The Lantern of Forgotten Names
Mythological
Original characters: Mizuki and Otoya
Every hundred years, the Lantern of Forgotten Names reignites for those who have lost their place in the world's memory. Mizuki, a…
The Umbrella Mix-Up
Romcom
Original characters: Haruto Kageyama and Miyu Tsukino
Haruto Kageyama had spent all morning rehearsing his confession speech in front of his bathroom mirror. He planned to give Miyu Tsukino…
The Last Ramen Bowl
Shonen
Original characters: Renji Takara and Mio Saito
Renji and Mio had searched the city for years for the legendary Golden Broth. When they finally found the last bowl in…
Socks on the Balcony Rail
Slice-of-life
Original characters: Mio Takagi and Kenta Hashimoto
Mio held up a pink sock with a hole in the toe and frowned. Kenta snatched it and draped it over the…
What is generated, and what is not
The picture and the story are both generated by artificial intelligence in one run, from a brief that names the genre, the characters and the scene. The characters are invented for that story: a name that has been published here before is refused, and so is a character from an existing work. Nothing is copied, traced or re-hosted from another site.
A failed generation publishes nothing. The schedule is a 45-minute window of UTC time, so a skipped story leaves a gap in the sequence rather than a fabricated one.