Comics Are Books Too

Art student Tanikawa Ai's drawings are so terrible, a painting system kidnaps her to fix the problem. The deal? Draw characters from a mysterious book, and she can borrow their powers—for a price. One botched sketch at a time, Ai stumbles through merged anime worlds, accidentally turning legendary detectives into stick figures, curse users into bandaged cats, and overpowered sorcerers into badminton shuttlecocks. When a café murder erupts in Beika Town, she frantically scribbles Edogawa Ranpo for one minute of deduction. Facing curses in Tokyo, she draws Dazai Osamu—who promptly becomes a meow…