Friendship shared between Karin, a strong-minded girl sent to live with her monk granddad in the Japanese countryside, and Anzu, the even-more unpredictable phantom feline who acts as her guardian.

Post war Japan is at its lowest point when a new crisis emerges in the form of a giant monster, baptized in the horrific power of the atomic bomb.

Aspiring journalist Masuda is working a menial job where he grows suspicious of the loner and mysterious Suzuki. Masuda decides to write an article on his co-worker and new acquaintance whom he comes to suspect is a long-lost...