Love, death and strawberries

Love, death, and strawberries is a comic book based on the visual novel Tiny Bunny. The comic was written by Saikono Joker and Evgeny Sokarev, and is illustrated by Yulia Aidina. The comic became available to a certain circle of buyers for the first time on December 10, 2022.
The story shows events taking place outside the visual novel, namely between episodes 3 and 4. It comes on behalf of Katya Smirnova, about the events that occurred after Semyon Baburin's disappearance. 
==Plot==
The story begins with Katya, tied-up, scratched, and with her knees bloody, being dragged by the hair by a strange creature deep into the forest.
The story then progresses into Katya’s memoirs of the previous events of the same day. Strolling down the school’s corridors, Katya spots Polina and Anton talking to each other. Upon meeting Anton's gaze, Katya becomes flustered, but snaps out of it and quickly walks past them in anger, believing that the two were mocking her. Despite her efforts to get rid of Anton out of her head, she couldn’t stop thinking about him. In an attempt to distract herself, Katya decides to talk behind Anton's back with her seat-mate, and she freezes in shock, when seeing Anton's face instead of her friend's beside her.
In the present time, Lilia Pavlovna phones Lieutenant Tikhonov and begs him to find her lost daughter. He and his partner Doronin rushed to look for her, while Katya, being dragged further into the forest, gets hit on the forehead against a tree stump, and has another flashback, remembering how several hours ago she, to get rid of Anton from her thoughts, decided to shame him in front of her mother. After writing over Anton's gradesheet in the class journal, she approaches him and apologizes for her behavior. She then tells him that she is in love with him, explaining that she was only gossiping about him to get his attention. When seeing Lilia Pavlovna nearby, she gives the journal to the embarrassed Anton and then, unnoticed, grabs his hands and screams to catch the teacher's attention. The furious Lilia Pavlovna grabs Anton and leads him to the principal's office. Katya then frames Anton, claiming he took the class journal from her. Noticing the writing over Anton’s grades, the adults believe it to be Anton’s doing and take Katya’s side, and threaten Anton with expulsion from the school. Frustrated, Anton leaves the office, slamming the door behind him, leaving Katya feeling relieved, and convinced that she would soon forget about her feelings for him.
On break, Katya tells her classmates about what she did, but then falls silent and started to feel ashamed when noticing Anton glaring at her. During their physical education class, when the kids split into teams to play basketball, Anton is paired up in the same team as Katya, and to spite her, Anton lets Roma and Byasha win.
To try and humiliate him in return, after class she gossips about him yet again, telling her friends how «a person like him isn't liked by anybody.» In response, Anton tells Katya that the same could be said for her, leaving her in shock. 
The flashback ends and switches back to the present, showing Katya lying in the snow, still deep in the forest. Despite telling herself that she didn’t want to think about Anton, looking back, Katya realizes that she truly loved him, and begins to cry. The sound of a police car interrupts her thoughts, and figures that they were looking for her. Taking out a wallet from her coat pocket, Katya throws it onto the snow, hoping to lead the police to her. In a last-ditch hope, Katya prays to be found and imagines the possible situation if she hadn't tried to neglect her feelings. Before getting dragged into the Black Garage, Katya fantasizes about walking home with Anton.
Whilst driving, Tikhonov notices the Black Garage through the windshield and tells Doronin to stop near it, however, when they get out of the car, the garage disappears. Seeing only broken animal tracks, Doronin suggests that it was nothing but a hallucination, with which the lieutenant agrees. In a desperate attempt to find clues, Tikhonov asks his partner to drive around the surroundings one more time. Not noticing Katya’s purse, they drive over it, crushing it. But later in Episode 4, Byasha finds her purse, if Anton invites him when on his search for Katya with Roma.
==Characters==
*Katya Smirnova
*Anton Petrov
*Polina Morozova
*Roma Pyatifanov
*Igor «Byasha»
*Lilia Pavlovna
*Lieutenant Tikhonov
*Mikhalych Doronin
*Katya's friends
*Principal
*Physical education teacher
*Оne of the forest werewolves
==Important events==
*A mysterious forest monster kidnaps Katya.
*It is revealed that Katya likes Anton, but she carefully hides it from everyone.
*Lilia Pavlovna asks the police to find her missing daughter.
*Katya confesses her love to Anton, but then puts him to shame in front of her mother and the school principal.
*Anton verbally repulsing Katya.
*Katya leaves her wallet in the forest in hopes that with its help, the police will be able to save her.
*Katya being locked in the Black Garage.
*Lieutenant Tikhonov, looking for Katya, sees Black Garage but it quickly disappears in front of him.
*The policemen leaving for the other side of the forest without noticing Katya’s wallet.
==Trivia==
*The title of the comic is an obvious reference to the TV anthology series, «Love, death and robots».
**A theme of strawberries can be seen throughout the comic. For example, the dish that the imaginary Anton offers to Katya is a strawberry pie. In addition, a strawberry can also be seen on Katya's wallet.
*The class journal on page 20 contains names of previously unknown classmates of Anton, including 'Nesterova A.', 'Topolev P.', 'Timofeev M.', and others.
**On the same page you can see the signature «Y. Aidina» - the name of the artist who illustrated this comic book.
*The concept art featuring Anton is displayed on the final page. In his right hand he has a keychain with strawberries, Semyon's ring and a butterfly knife, and in his left; a broken violin bow and an open can. The rabbit mask stretched over the his forehead leaks blood from its mouth and eye sockets. Anton also has a crazy look.
==Errors==
*Katya's desk-neighbor is girl with a ponytail and a big white bow in her hair in the comic, but in the novel, Katya’s desk-neighbor is a plump girl with braided hair.
*Polina's seat is taken by a boy.
*According to Lieutenant Tikhonov, Katya was last seen approaching the woods, but the missing persons report said that Katya was last seen in the schoolyard.
*In the comic, the Black Garage appears among the coniferous trees, but in the 4th episode of the visual novel, Anton, Roma, and Byasha (depends) find it in a clearing burnt-out.
==Trailer==
Манга по игре "Tiny bunny" (Зайчик)
==Gallery==
File:The kidnapping of Katya (from comic).webp
File:Angry Katya (from comic).webp
File:Katya gossiping with friends (from comic).webp
File:Tikhonov in forest (from comic).webp