What a Wonderful World! (2009)

Volumes 1 and 2 of Viz's English edition Inio Asano's intersecting vignettes begin with a college dropout bored of her mediocre routine and widen into a web of young adults in modern Japan whose lives brush past one another. Each chapter is a complete story, so the two slim books read like a linked story collection rather than a series to keep up with. It is gentler than Asano's later work: realist, but with a lift at the end of most stories. It is also the one entry here that takes two books, sold separately.