High-schooler Miki Yoshida has made a vow: for her senior year at Fukuyama High School, she has resolved to become a more assertive, decisive person. This new resolve is quickly put to the test when she meets Hiro Sakurai, who has just transferred into the school. Taciturn and more than a little weird—he can be seen secretly observing people and taking notes on them with some zeal—Hiro immediately gets Miki’s attention, and, despite Hiro’s protests, she resolves to befriend him and, if possible, figure him out.
With some work Miki eventually finds out that Hiro is actually a Deliverer, part of a group of quasi-celestial beings whose mission, as it turns out, is to save love. Love, it is revealed, is actually a finite force, and Deliverers, with the help of their hold spirits—quasi-sentient shape-shifters—make sure that it is transferred from bad couples to good ones before it is killed and depleted.
As Miki becomes more involved in Hiro’s life, and their friendship deepens, it brings about a score of challenges, which they must deal through in the most eventful year of Miki’s life.
Published as a series of four manga-sized volumes, one for each season of the year, Miki Falls was written and drawn by Mark Crilley, of Akiko fame.
This series provides examples of:
- Arc Words: Two of them in Hiro's gift basket scene in "Spring". These later are used in Miki's rejection of some love interest Yumi has set up for her in "Winter":"I like being alone. It's the way I am. The way I'll always be.""I wish I could be friends with you. But I can't be. Not with you. Not with anyone."
- The Big Damn Kiss: Referred to by Crilley as the " 300-page kiss".
- How We Got Here: The story begins with Miki falling out of a window. The rest of the story explains the circumstances that lead up it.
- Immortality: Although Deliverers can die, they cannot be killed.
- Loners Are Freaks: Invoked by Hiro when he first arrives at school so the other students will leave him be and he can get on with his job.
- Love Potion: Freya gives Miki one, so she can get past being a neverfind. She dumps it out instead.
- The Matchmaker: Part of the job description for Deliverers.
- The Power of Love: Miki's love for Hiro is what convinces Freya to turn Miki into a deliverer.
