Yet things do progress, and there's never the feeling that the author is just killing time, or rehashing something done earlier. The athmosphere is very relaxed, and everything seems rooted firmly in reality - but little strangenesses creep in around the edges. And in many ways the setting hints at a pastoral post-apocalypse. Reality and surreality blend almost unnoticed. The Japanese fan pages tend to be packed with detail and analysis, which annoys me to no end because it means the series is even deeper than I can comprehend with my slow Japanese skills.
Official art is woefully scarce.
Short Essay Three pages of Alpha musing, with lovely art. One of those 'not much happens' bits that I like anyhow. There's not much you really need to know to enjoy this story. A very nice 'low text' story involving the Misago, a kind of water spirit who lives in a lake near Alpha. She likes Takahiro in her own wild way.