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Crescent Moon Academy Adventures

Welcome to Crescent Moon Academy—where the vending machines are cursed, the chicken is haunted, and your childhood crush might be a vampire.

This isn’t your average magical high school.
This is Shin’yume, a decaying dream caught between 1983 and a fever dream, where the halls smell like bad decisions and the lockers whisper old secrets. Everything’s falling apart—emotionally, spiritually, and definitely architecturally.

Inside this collection of short stories:

• A boy and a vampire-girl bond over Paul Reubens and shared grief

• A girl turns into a teapot (it’s complicated)

• A chicken shack becomes the site of supernatural turf warfare

• Tanuki run scams, vending machines predict fate, and trauma wears a cheer skirt

Each story is weird, raw, funny, and strangely tender. Crescent Moon Academy isn’t just a setting—it’s a feeling. One you didn’t know you were homesick for.

For fans of:

• FLCL and Mob Psycho 100

• Welcome to the NHK, Boogiepop Phantom, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles but emotionally broken

• The emotional chaos of Scott Pilgrim and the gothic weirdness of Vampire Princess Miyu

• VHS anime aesthetics, city pop nostalgia, and stories that make you laugh right after you cry

If you’ve ever fallen in love with a ghost, a glitch, or the girl who sits behind you in detention...
If you’ve ever felt like a side character in your own life...

This book is for you.

⚠️ Content Warnings:

Grief, trauma, emotional vulnerability, emotionally unstable vending machines, undead teapots, lingering nostalgia, and genuine feelings.