schoolgirl makishima misaki's life is about to get a lot more complicated in this first volume of an exciting new title! she has inherited the house that belonged to her maternal grandfather, in a small, quiet, snowy town that boasts its own local legend, the hohopo. moving into the house with her klutzy widower father, she soon makes new friends — including one very unusual friend: the hohopo itself, a shape-shifting creature who looks like a small loch ness monster…when he's not masquerading as the boy next door!