Given, Vol. 5 (Volume 5)

Sometimes a song can save your life.

Love of music unites the fourmembers of the band Given: hotheaded guitarist Uenoyama, playboy drummerAkihiko, gentle bassist Haruki, and Mafuyu, a singer gifted with great talentand burdened by past tragedy. Their struggles and conflicts may drive themapart, but their bond to the music―and to each other―always bringsthem back together again.

The final round of the music festival tryout isabout to begin, but that’s not the only source of tension in the band.Mafuyu, who’s been spending a lot of time at Ugetsu and Akihiko’splace, learns about the complicated history between the two and realizes thatHaruki’s heartbreak is part of that romantic tangle. Things come to a headduring the band’s performance, where the emotions unleashed byMafuyu’s new song will change the course of their lives forever.