Chapter 1

Chapter 1 is the first chapter of the manga Shimanami Tasogare.

Characters

 * Tasuku Kaname
 * Anonymous
 * Haruko Daichi
 * Natsuyoshi Utsumi
 * Tchaiko
 * Tachibana
 * Touma Tsubaki

Locations

 * Shimanami High
 * Lounge
 * Senkoji Park

Plot
Tasuku is overcome with distress after one of his friends, Tachibana, finds gay porn in his phone's history and is about to commit suicide when he sees someone jump out of the window of lounge across from the bridge. He runs to the lounge as two members of the lounge, Daichi and Utsumi, are leaving and they invite him in. He tells them about what he saw, but neither seem bothered. The person Tasuku saw then comes into the main room of the lounge. As she walks past Tasuku, she makes a comment that suggests that she had been watching him, then leaves. Another regular of the lounge, Tchaiko, explains that the person is Anonymous, the owner of the lounge, and that she takes a walk to the park up the hill at this time.

Tasuku follows her up the hill to question her. She says she thought he was going to die, but it doesn't look like he's going to die now; Tasuku then has a flashback and details of his friends finding gay porn in his phone's history are revealed. He tried to play it off as a prank by his older brother but his friends continued to berate him about it as they left class. Another student who is later revealed to be Tsubaki watched the group as they entered the hallway. Tasuku took his phone away from them and made an offensive comment that obviously hurts him to say.

When he and Anonymous reach the top of the stairs, he's considerably winded and she's unbothered as she buys herself ice cream. She notes that he's not used to the climb and he explains that he moved to the town in the spring as they enter the observation deck. There she tells him that he can tell her anything but she's not going to ask and when she finishes her ice cream, she's going to leave. He rants about his secret being discovered and his uncertainty about if he kept it hidden. She tells him to come by the lounge again tomorrow and alludes to the fact that she knows he's gay. She gives him the stick from her ice cream, which gets him one free and leaves. Presumably having heard Anonymous's announcement of winning stick, the woman at the ice cream shop comes up to observation deck to give him one and he eats it while looking out onto the city and thinking about their conversation.