Forest of Piano Vol. 14 (Kodansha, 2026)

This is a story about a piano, pitifully abandoned in the woods, and a young boy, Kai, who grew up playing it as his favorite toy. At the height of the International Chopin Piano Competition, Shuhei, consumed by a cocktail of sorrow and misplaced rage, lashes out at Kai and disappears. But from the discord of this fractured friendship founded in piano, a new kind of music will be born.