Seike Yukiko

"This is the story of modern japan with the poets, created base on the my imaginations of the portrait of the writers, who I took the impression from the works of Hagiwara Sakutarou, Kitahara Hakushuu, … so to speak is a true derivative work" Shikaku Town - ⟨街 (Shikaku means square, but can be written as 詩歌句 (poetry verse)). A fictional town where poets live. In there, the characters based on works of Hagiwara Sakutarou, Kitahara Hakushuu, Miyoji Tatsuji, Muroo Saisei, Yosano Akiko, Satou Mokichi, Wakayama Bokusui, Takahama Kyoshi, Ishikawa Takuboku, Tachihara michizou, Nakahara Chuuya, Takamura Koutarou, Masaoka Shiki, … while their lives being teared up by the happiness as human and desires as writer, their body shaken between joy and despair, praised, hindered, committed a sin, and struggling in composing poems.

Kazusa, a young high school girl, is killed instantly when a car crashes into her as she was crossing the street. As a ghost, she watches her friends’ reactions to her death—keeping a close eye on Miharu, the boy she was in love with before she died. However, she discovers something that shocks her to the core…

A tale of two people, Tono Takaki and Shinohara Akari, who were close friends but gradually grow farther and farther apart as time moves on. They become separated because of their families yet continue to exchange contact in the form of letters. Yet as time continues to trudge on, their contact with one another begins to cease. Years pass and the rift between them grows ever larger. However, Takaki remembers the times they have shared together, but as life continues to unfold for him, he wonders if he would be given the chance to meet Akari again as the tale embarks on Takaki's realization of the world and people around him. See AnimeNewsNetwork for the anime movie.