Odd and Kind summary: An anthology of self-contained science fiction tales, each shining a light on different lives — on Earth, in space, across the present and the future — capturing the delicate shifts of human emotion. It all begins with Episode 1, a remake of Welcome Back to the Day After Tomorrow’s Future, the award-winning debut by Kae Hashimoto (76th Chiba Tetsuya Prize), which captured hearts on X with over 250,000 likes. This SF omnibus delivers stories that are at once strange and heartwarming — Odd and Kind.