ASHES OF DAWN

When a sudden, unexplained catastrophe tears through Tokyo, society doesn't collapse in a single moment-it unravels.Ashes of Dawn follows a group of high school students caught at the exact fault line between normal life and total annihilation. As systems fail-schools, authority, transportation, trust-the story focuses not on heroism, but on human behavior under irreversible pressure.At its core is Ryūzaki Shin, a quiet, overlooked boy whose greatest fear is not death, but invisibility. When panic erupts into violence and infection spreads through crowds faster than truth, Shin becomes the embodiment of what the world discards first: the silent, the hesitant, the compassionate. His fate becomes the emotional axis around which the series turns.Survivors are forced into impossible choices:protect others or protect themselvesbelieve or abandonact, or be erasedThere are no clear villains-only people adapting at different speeds.The outbreak is not just biological.It is social, psychological, and moral.As cities burn and dawn rises over ash-filled skies, Ashes of Dawn asks one question again and again:When everything breaks, who gets left behind-and who decides that?