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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326 stories · newest firstThe 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…
Orbital Ramen Rescue
Sci-fi
Original characters: Jinro Tsubame and Luna Vex
Jinro Tsubame drifted through the silent corridors of the abandoned station, his magnetic boots clicking against the metal floor. He had come…
The Goddess of Mismatched Shoes
Mythological
Original characters: Yukina and Orochi-sama
Yukina had been the attendant to Orochi-sama for three centuries, though she was only twenty-four years old. Her primary duty was not…
Teacups for a Sleeping Dragon
Fantasy
Original characters: Mira the Kettle-Keeper and Ember the Cobblestone Wyrm
Mira the Kettle-Keeper believed every creature deserved a proper tea break, even a dragon the size of a breadbasket. Ember the Cobblestone…
Sparkling Sprout Delivery
Shonen
Original characters: Kaito Emberleaf and Mira Tanglefoot
Kaito Emberleaf adjusted the strap of his seed satchel and grinned at his partner, Mira Tanglefoot. Their delivery route along the Floating…
Tea on the Rooftop Steps
Slice-of-life
Original characters: Mio Hoshikawa and Taro Kageyama
Mio Hoshikawa watched the sun dip behind the apartment blocks, her fingers curled around a paper cup of jasmine tea. Beside her,…
The Mayor's Midnight Onigiri
Political fiction
Original characters: Hana Mizutani, Takeshi Yanagi and Sota Kuroda
The midnight session of the Kurokawa City Council had run long, and tempers were frayed over the new bridge budget. Hana Mizutani,…
The Tea That Grew Wings
Fantasy
Original characters: Momo Kiri and Jinro Bell
Momo Kiri had spent three mornings whispering to her chamomile until it finally worked. The tea in her cup shimmered, then a…
Ramen Rail Rush
Shonen
Original characters: Kaito Ryuzaki, Momo Hanakawa and Takeshi Onigiri
Kaito Ryuzaki never thought his morning delivery route would end with a race against time. With Momo Hanakawa balancing a bowl of…
The Weaver's Midnight Tea
Mythological
Original characters: Hoshizora, Tenrai and Komorebi
Hoshizora, the Weaver of Dawn, had forgotten her morning duties. Tenrai, the Keeper of Tides, was chasing a runaway moonbeam across the…
Love Notes on Pink Paper
Romcom
Original characters: Ren Kaito and Mio Hanada
Ren had spent three nights rewriting his confession letter until his hand cramped. Mio had done the same, her desk covered in…
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.