When Asahi Sakurai -- the lit chick who gave a poetry reading at Brother 2's booth -- returns to the comic scene, it turns out that she's really a famous voice actress and singer in disguise! Kazuki helps her escape a crowd full of rabid fans, but discovers that this starlet is really a shy girl. Can he give her the confidence she needs to handle her fast-paced career? Later, Kazuki hits a wall in his doujinshi career, and must decide whether to stick with the parodies that have got him this far or expand into original work. Does he have the write stuff?

Kazuki Sendoh
A college freshman who failed to get into the arts college he was hoping for. Kazuki is still determined to become an artist.

Taishi Kuhonbutsu
A mutual friend of Kazuki's and Mizuki's, Taishi brings them to a doujinshi exhibition, or 'Comic Party' (a.k.a. 'ComiPa').

Mizuki Takase
Kazuki's girlfriend - beginning to have serious doubts about Kazuki's earning potential ...

Sekihiko Inui
Much like the characters in his series Comic Party, Sekihiko Inui got his start drawing doujinshi (self-published comics), and still continues to draw to this day under the doujinshi circle name Mix-ism.

Even as Comic Party continues to run in the monthly magazine, Dengeki Daioh, he has begun his first original series (Comic Party is derived from a videogame/anime series): Fantasism, which appears in the magazine Shonen Ace Momogumi.

The following URL will take you to Inui-san's official fansite (in Japanese only): http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/mix-ism/