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The apartment—if it could be called that—was a cramped, second-story walk-up above a convenience store. Half of that space was dedicated to their fledgling animation studio: a rickety desk with mismatched chairs, two monitors perched precariously on stacks of books, and a makeshift lightbox cobbled together from plexiglass and a desk lamp. The other half served as their living quarters, though the lines between the two blurred daily. “You’re too pragmatic,” Harua continued, flipping onto his stomach and propping his chin on his hands. “Where’s the pizzazz? The heart? The—” “The deadline,” Jo interrupted, finally glancing up. His round eyes held the faintest glimmer of exasperation, though his voice remained calm. “If we spend three weeks on hand-drawn sequences, we’ll miss it.” Harua groaned and rolled onto his back, staring at the water-stained ceiling as though it might offer inspiration. “Deadlines are the death of creativity.” “And rent is the death of hapless animators,” Jo countered. [Fresh out of college, Harua and Jo launch an animation studio—but their biggest challenge might just be a flirtatious barista and a mysterious bookstore owner who inspire more than just their work]

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