The Garden of Words

🇯🇵言の葉の庭 · Kotonoha no Niwa

MangaSeinenFinished🇯🇵 First published in 2013DramaPsychologicalRomanceSlice of Life

Makoto Shinkai story · Midori Motohashi art

Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, without arranging the times, the two start to see each other again and again, but only on rainy days. They deepen their relationship and open up to each other.

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