![]() ![]() When she returns, he is still standing there. She leaves him there, not wanting to be late for school. He introduces himself to her as Aram and says he came through the mirror. Her life is completely thrown out of sync one day when she drops an ancient family mirror, as she goes to pick up the pieces, she notices a seven-year-old boy standing there. She believes in arriving at school on time every day, and that by increasing her tardy-free streak, she is increasing her chances of finding a loving partner. Everything she does in life, including her hobbies and activities, revolve around this idea of a happy, loving life. The story is riddled with tragedy and horror, all normal-day experiences for those who lived through or are generational participants, of the Hiroshima atomic bomb.Īiri Hoshina is a high school freshman with only one goal in mind, she wants to find a loving husband, settle down in a cozy home and enjoy the mundane, happy days in life together. She the plans for Nagio to meet her and Toko together but leaves the two alone to reconnect. Nanami finds a letter from Toko to Nagio, saying her family wants her to stop seeing him as they believe his asthma was caused by the atomic bomb. Toko and Nagio had run into each other earlier on and had been exchanging letters. She runs into Nagio one day the two talk about their aging family. The story fast-forwards seventeen years and she is now working in an office. Along with her friend Toko Tone, the two throw cherry blossoms in the air to help him relive the spring he has missed while in hospital. She skips baseball practice one day to visit her brother Nagio in the hospital, who is being treated for asthma. She is the daughter of Minami’s brother and is a second-generation bomb victim. The story is painfully relatable, making the Hiroshima bomb and its after-effects come to life, with all the tragedy that it still causes.Ĭountry of Cherry Blossoms - This story begins with a young girl named Nanami Ishikawa, living in Tokyo in 1987. She soon falls sick after this, and Uchikoshi visits her often, not able to give up his feelings for her. He tries to kiss her, but she only has flashbacks of the bomb and watching her two sisters die of radiation. He sees that she is in need, and gives her a handkerchief and a pair of sandals made by his mother. Her co-worker, Yutaka Uchikoshi, deeply cares for Minami and visits her one day when she misses work. She lost her father and both her sisters in the tragedy. She now lives in a shanty town with her mother, Fujimi. ![]() It follows a young woman named Minami Hirano, who was lucky enough to survive the bomb as a young teenager. It is ten years after the atomic bomb was dropped on the town. Town of Evening calm – This is a story set in Hiroshima, 1955. This is a two-part manga, broken down into two different stories: Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms ![]()
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