The Anime Lad
On Christmas Eve, three unhoused people discover an abandoned baby at a garbage dump. They decide to search Tokyo for the child’s parents before the New Year, despite having few resources and no official route to an answer. Encounters along the way also press against their own difficult pasts.
Super Eyepatch Fox
Three unhoused people find an abandoned infant on Christmas Eve and set out to locate the parents. The New Year creates a deadline as they move through Tokyo and encounter people whose lives initially seem unrelated. Their search keeps the baby’s fate unanswered while forcing the trio to confront parts of their own pasts.
Gigguku
Three people the city overlooks find an abandoned baby on Christmas Eve and immediately inherit a responsibility too important to ignore. That setup has so much HEART. Their search for the parents carries them through Tokyo as the New Year approaches, with every encounter pulling their own histories closer.
Father's Basement
A holiday search driven by seemingly unrelated encounters risks leaning heavily on coincidence. The premise uses that contrivance to keep three unhoused protagonists moving through parts of Tokyo that comfortable Christmas stories often ignore. They find an abandoned baby and seek the parents before New Year, while their own pasts keep pressing into the route.
