This is a wonderfully sweet and tender shoujo one-shot. I don't want to say too much and give everything away...

It's a world where pets look like humans (with animal ears). A kind old lady makes friends with one dog, Zhan, and eventually decides to take him home with her. Zhan comes to love the old woman very much, but eventually....

The ending was quite sad, and I cried. Even though the plot seems simplistic, the story was presented very well. Enough to make me sympathize with the characters, and wring my heart out within a mere 33 pages.

The art is beautiful; it's shoujo, so nothing unexpected, but it's well done, and Zhan looks quite cute and sweet.

Some people dislike one-shots, because they think they're "too short." In some cases that's true, but here the story doesn't need to be longer. It feels just right.

I recommend this to everyone who likes shoujo tragedies.