Fumi Hirano

Six-year-old Ataru steps on Elle’s shadow during an impromptu game of shadow-tag; in Elle’s culture, this is viewed as a marriage ...

Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, ...

The story is set “slightly in the future” and revolves around Aya “Aachan” Okamura, a woman who has been working for two ...