Genres: Sci-fi/Fantasy, Adventure | Themes: friendship, family, war, discrimination, loss, growing up (some material may be triggering for sensitive audiences)
My longest-running and most expansive series, started with my high school comics club and currently being reworked as a light novel.

Synopsis:
According to legend, the elemental Keys that keep the Gates in balance can endow their holders with amazing abilities. Rumors of their power inevitably attract the attention of all sorts of unsavory ne’er-do-wells who only seek to use them for their own selfish and unscrupulous ends.
Amidst an interdimensional war helmed by a power-hungry Fire Gate leader, a young boy from the Water Gate named Takeshi Miyahara and his disillusioned Fire Gate accomplice, Reka Norikawa, gather the Water Keys’ current inheritors – the Keyholders. With their journey off to a rocky start, and new hurdles and enemies at every turn, will the struggling team be able to unite and grow into worthy protectors?