Relationship started on similar interests, both couples lived together, shows how both fall out of love & how both male leads try to bring the spark back but couldn't.
Two young love birds. Romance vs reality. Beautiful couple. Being poor is hard. Struggle with money and life, have to put love and romance to second.
Sae is a high school student who is studying hard for her college entrance exams. She lost her father when she was very young and so lives her mother Ryoko in Hokkaido, Japan. Her father Kemimichi once planted a dogwood tree in their garden after he found out he had a terminal disease and could not watch Sae grow up. She hopes to enter a university in Tokyo.
She then meets Kouhei, who attends a specialized high school teaching fishery. He hopes to follow in the footsteps of his father and grandfather as a fisherman. These two young people meet and have a long distance relationship. Although their love is strong it does not last.
10 years later these two people have a miracle.
She then meets Kouhei, who attends a specialized high school teaching fishery. He hopes to follow in the footsteps of his father and grandfather as a fisherman. These two young people meet and have a long distance relationship. Although their love is strong it does not last.
10 years later these two people have a miracle.
Two kids meet near a floodgate after school. Yu is a shy 17 year old girl who sits down next to Yosuke as he plays his guitar. Yosuke recently gave up playing sports and has devoted himself to playing the guitar. He only plays a few lines over and over, as he tries to make a song from what he feels. Their relationship progresses tentatively as they both have difficulty in expressing their feelings and thoughts. One day Yu takes the initiative and kisses Yosuke. Yosuke responds by picking up his guitar and going home. Years later Yu wonders, "Why did I cry? Why didn't I stop crying? Why?"..while Yosuke wonders "Why did I run away from you that time?" Fast forward seventeen years later. They haven’t seen each since their days in high school and now have moved on with their separate and empty lives. That is until one day they randomly meet during an audition. They agree to go out together after work for drinks. As the evening turns into the early morning, they are still awake sharing memories of their high school days. After 17 years Yosuke finally kisses Yu. Yu starts to cry again and they soon go to visit her older sister. The next day Yosuke decides to call Yu and make good on a promise he made to her 17 years ago, that is he would play her his song when it is completed. Yu agrees to meet him again and Yosuke goes home to get his acoustic guitar. While on his way to meet Yu, fate deals a strange twist to their plans, perhaps this will be the moment where they can finally say “Sukida.”
12-year old Ann Uekusa's parents are getting a divorce, so Ann and her mother move to her mother's old hometown, Shiname. Ann feels that the people in the countryside are friendly to an excess, to the point where she can't have any privacy at all. But she meets Daigo, a boy who lives nearby, and he gradually helps her get used to life in Shiname. However, her mother faints at work, and...!?
~~ Adapted from the manga series “Sand Chronicles” by Ashihara Hinako
~~ Adapted from the manga series “Sand Chronicles” by Ashihara Hinako
12-year old Ann Uekusa's parents are getting a divorce, so Ann and her mother move to her mother's old hometown, Shiname. Ann feels that the people in the countryside are friendly to an excess, to the point where she can't have any privacy at all. But she meets Daigo, a boy who lives nearby, and he gradually helps her get used to life in Shiname. However, her mother faints at work, and...!?
~~ Adapted from the manga series “Sand Chronicles” by Ashihara Hinako
~~ Adapted from the manga series “Sand Chronicles” by Ashihara Hinako
Saeko is in a romantic relationship with Yusuke. Her boyfriend proposes to her, but, on that same day, he gets into a car accident and dies. Saeko falls into deep despair after his death. A few months later, she meets a man named Naruse. Although unaware at the time, Naruse received a heart transplant from Yusuke and he feels something for Saeko in his heart.
During the 2nd year of high school in the winter season, Yano transferred from Kushiro to Tokyo due to a family matter. Yano and Nanami promised to meet again. A couple of years later, Nanami is busy finding a job, while Yano's friend Takeuchi supports her. in the beginning, Yano and Nanami kept their relationship, even with the long distance between them, but Yano suddenly stops contacting Nanami
Follows the 10-year romance between Yano Motoharu and Takahashi Nanami. During their high school days, Yano Motoharu was the most popular boy in school, but can't get over the death of his girlfriend from a car crash. Takahashi Nanami falls in love with Yano Motoharu and must deal with his inability to let go of the past.
