Title: カノン (Kanon)　Vol. 1
Artist: 森嶋プチ (Petit Morishima)
Creator: KEY
Book Size/Pages: B-6, 162pp., w/o furigana
Volume: 1/2
Original Serialization: Monthly Dengeki Daioh 2/00-10/00
Rating: 3/4
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Another manga based on a video game. I think there's also an anthology comics based on this, but the Dengeki version is a full length story rather than a compilation of various short comics.

There aren't any bonuses in the manga besides a color first page.

The stories in here, two of them plus a small intro, do require that the reader have some background into the characters (which I do not). It would be helpful since I have no sense of why the main character, 祐一 (Yuichi) is back living with his childhood friend, 名雪 (Nayuki), and what their promise was about. But even without that, the two stories were filling just by themselves.

1. PROLOGE (Prologue): 7 years ago, Yuichi made a promise with Nayuki but he doesn't remember what. Now, he's returning and is going to live with Nayuki and her sister (I think). They meet and walk home when they're bumped into by あゆ (Ayu) who is running away from a Taiyaki cook and tells them to run with her. As they are running away, Yuichi bumps into a girl, but keeps on running. She explains that she stole because she was hungry and had no money. Back home, 秋子 (Akiko), has dinner waiting for the two of them and the story begins.

2. Shiori Misaka: There's a mysterious girl waiting outside of the school yard, the same girl who Yuichi bumped into the day before. The girl introduces herself as 美坂栞 (Shiori Misaka). She's a student of the school but has been sick so she hasn't been coming. However, it's peculiar that she's waiting for someone. At school, one of Nayuki's friends also shares the same last name, Misaka, 香里 (Kaori) Misaka. Misaka denies that she has a kid sister, but Nayuki and Yuichi put the pieces together and Kaori comes clean. She's going through extreme hardships knowing that her sister has a terminal illness that even Shiori herself doesn't know about. However, because Shiori has been having a great time with Yuichi and Nayuki, she regains some inner strength.

3. Makoto Sawatari: A girl suddenly starts yelling and screaming at Yuichi on the street and collapses of exhaustion. Had this been in private, Yuichi would have just let her be, but everyone was looking, so he had to take her in to Akiko's house. Akiko is reminded about the time when Yuichi was a kid and brought in a baby fox for care. The girls name is 真琴 (Makoto) and apparently she has lost of memory, so she doesn't have anywhere to go. They let her stay, but tensions mount when Yuichi asks her if she could help out around the house. She runs out, but then comes back with a kitten. Yuichi and her make amends and they adopt a new kitten.

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