Yutaka Koizumi

A terminally ill girl named Himari Takakura is miraculously saved from death by a strange spirit who resides in a penguin-shaped hat. However, in exchange for extending her life, the spirit tasks Himari's brothers, Kanba and Shōma, to seek out an elusive item known as the Penguin Drum with assistance from a trio of strange penguins.

Iwaki Tomonori is a schoolboy who happens to have a crush on his teacher, but learns she has become engaged. Brokenhearted, he soon meets a girl named Rizel, a biochemically engineered human, who he learns the Japanese government has married him to against his will.