Death Will Take Autumn With It

Hagivara Akira, a twenty-year-old student at the University of Tokyo, is terminally ill. He has his studies, friends, loving parents... and an ever-present feeling of hopelessness. When he decides to end it all and heads to the train station, a stranger saves him. But just as Akira tries to forget this incident, the savior reappears in his life — to help him accept himself and the future. Akira doesn't understand why he deserves this help. Especially when he learns that the stranger who saved him on that winter evening is not a human at all...