Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (manga)

Adapted from Seiko Tanabe's beloved short story, Josee, the Tiger and the Fish follows Tsuneo, a marine-biology student working part-time jobs to save for a dream of studying abroad, and Josee, a sharp-tongued young woman who uses a wheelchair and has spent her life largely shut away by her overprotective grandmother.

Hired to help care for her, Tsuneo becomes Josee's window to a world she has only known through books and drawings, the sea, the city, the possibility of a life of her own. As the two grow closer, each pushes the other to reach for a future they had assumed was out of reach, and both must weigh independence, fear, and love.

A tender, bittersweet romance about disability, ambition, and daring to want more than the safe life you were handed.