KOTORI YAMABUKI · SNOW FLAKES

Snow flakes

Story & Music Project

Turning emotions beyond words into sound.
Where fiction and original music interweave.

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ABOUT

What is Snow flakes?

A creative project where a serialized novel and original music exist as one. Read the story and the sound feels different. Hear the music and the words carry new warmth.

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Novel

A completed story following three musicians — Hinata, Kouta, and Hayate — as they navigate music, distance, and the things left unsaid. Serialized on Shōsetsuka ni Narō. Available in print (Kindle).

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Music

Original songs born from within the story — streaming on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and YouTube Music. Each track is tied to a specific moment in the narrative.

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Connection

Neither the story nor the music can stand alone. A work where emotions move between the two — a new kind of experience built for readers and listeners at once.

FEATURED MUSIC

Selected Releases

All tracks streaming worldwide on major platforms.

ALBUM · 2026

Undertone

Spring Waltz / Aftertone

Two tracks capturing the quiet tension between what's felt and what's left unsaid. Spring Waltz flows with bittersweet lightness; Aftertone lingers long after the last note.

Spotify

SINGLE · 2025

Round Bounce

The energy of three musicians locked in a room together — upbeat, live-feeling, impossible to sit still to. Born from the story's most alive moments.

Spotify

SINGLE · 2025

SWEETs

Delicate and almost fragile — a melody that holds the sweetness of moments you can't quite hold onto. Tied to a scene in the novel that readers keep returning to.

Spotify

SINGLE · 2025

The Sound Left Behind

置いた音

Inspired by the moment in the novel when a sound is placed somewhere and never picked up again. Quiet, unhurried, and somehow impossible to forget.

Spotify

SINGLE · 2025

Little Snow

Small. Nearly melting. But it didn't disappear. The musical companion to the novel's most tender arc — a sound that stays with you without asking for anything.

Spotify

STORY AND MUSIC

How They Work Together

"Nothing dramatic happens.
Just a brief pause, a glance away,
words left unsaid — they stay."

Snow flakes is built on a simple idea: the emotions that live between people — the ones that never get said out loud — can become music.

Each song is tied to a specific chapter. Read the scene, then hear the track. The same feeling, in two different forms. Something you couldn't quite name suddenly has a sound.

THE STORY

Hinata, Kouta, and Hayate formed a band in high school. The novel follows their lives — not the road to success, but the small shifts, the things they couldn't say, the distance that quietly moves. Complete.

THE MUSIC

Original songs — composed, produced, and released on all major streaming platforms. Not background music for the novel. Not a soundtrack. Something that works alongside the story to make the emotion land differently in each form.

THE EXPERIENCE

You can start with the music and come to the novel, or start with the novel and find the music waiting. Either way, something shifts. A work where neither can stand alone — emotions move between them.

CHARACTERS

Three Musicians

The story centers on three people in a band. Not a success story — just the time they share, and the sound that stays.

Hinata

GUITAR & VOCALS

"Turning toward sound without finding the words."

Kouta

BASS

"Catching the tremors, giving them form."

Hayate

DRUMS

"Playing through the doubts, moving forward."

Kotori Yamabuki

NOVELIST · SONGWRITER · CROSS-MEDIA CREATOR

Creator of Snow flakes — a project built around the idea that the emotions that live between people, the ones never quite put into words, can become both story and sound.

The novel ran on Shōsetsuka ni Narō (Japan's largest fiction platform) and is available in print through Kindle. Original music streams worldwide on Spotify, Apple Music, and all major platforms.

Everything in Snow flakes — the writing, the music, the illustrations, the web experience — is made by one person.

NOVEL MUSIC ILLUSTRATION INDIE JAPAN

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