Rascal Does Not Dream of a Beach Queen +(2025)

Seishun Buta Yarou wa Beach Queen no Yume wo Minai+

Book 16 of the Seishun Buta Yarou series (Short Story Collection).

It’s the day of the Minegahara Sports Festival! Kaede, Rio, and Yuuma are all on the blue team with Sakuta. That is, until he gets stuck filling in for a beach volleyball junior athlete named Minagi Ootsu—who’s nowhere to be found. The festival goes on with the Ball Toss and the Scavenger Hunt, and finally, Sakuta is free to eat lunch with Mai. On the way there, however, he happens upon Minagi in the last place he would have expected…

(Source: Yen Press)

Includes three short stories:
1. Seishun Buta Yarou wa Beach Queen no Yume wo Minai (青春ブタ野郎はビーチクイーンの夢を見ない)
2. Seishun Buta Yarou wa White Christmas no Yume wo Minai (青春ブタ野郎はホワイトクリスマスの夢を見る)
3. Seishun Buta Yarou wa Tropical Summer no Yume wo Minai (青春ブタ野郎はトロピカルサマーの夢を見ない)