Mitsuha, a high school girl living in a small town in the mountains, has a dream that she's a boy living in Tokyo. Taki, a high school boy in Tokyo, dreams he's a girl living in a quaint little mountain town. Sharing bodies, relationships, and lives, the two become inextricably interwoven--but are any connections truly inseverable in the grand tapestry of fate? Written by director MAKOTO SHINKAI during the production of the film by the same title, your name. is in turns funny, heartwarming, and heart-wrenching as it follows the struggles of two young people determined to hold on to one another.
During the events of your name., Mitsuha and Taki's miraculous encounter forever changed their lives and the fates of everyone in the tiny mountain village of Itomori. But their earth-shattering ordeal represents just one chapter in Itomori's history, and Mitsuha's experience form only a single thread in the fabric of her community. Every story has as many sides as there are characters to tell it, and every life affects countless others... In Another Side:Earthbound, the stories of Mitsuha's family, her friends, and the boy from Tokyo come together to weave a greater picture of the circumstances surrounding the comet and the forces that bind the people of Itomori together.
Alisa Mikhailovna Kujou is Seiren Private Academy's "solitary princess." She's a half-Russian beauty with silver hair, at the top of her class, student council accountant, and...completely unapproachable. For some reason, she's also taken on the responsibility of reprimanding the slacker who sits next to her in class. Masachika Kuze is constantly frustrating her by falling asleep, forgetting his textbooks, and just being an overall unexemplary student. Or at least, that's how it looks from the outside. She may put on a tough act, but she doesn't mind Masachika as much as others would think. She even lets him call her by her nickname, Alya. Anyone hearing the comments she mutters in Russian under her breath might know how she really feels, but since none of her classmates understand the language, she's free to say whatever she likes! Except...there is one person who knows what she's saying. Masachika eavesdrops on her embarrassing revelations, pretending to be clueless, all the while wondering what her flirtatious comments actually mean!
One day, Tougetsu Umidori suddenly receives a mysterious request from Nara Yoshino, a classmate of hers she is rather close with. Little does she know, however, that this is only the beginning of a series of bizarre events. Soon after, an enigmatic girl in a cat hoodie shows up at Umidori's house, calling herself "BS." Thanks to her, all manner of strange things happen, including toilet borrowing, betrayal, threats, a grapple for freedom, and finally a desperate plea for mercy. Once everything is over, this strange new girl asks: "Hey, will you kill the lies with me?" And without knowing why, Umidori joins in on her quest.
Byletta, the daughter of a viscount of the Gaihandar Empire is business savvy and skilled with a blade. She also has a husband of eight years that she's never met, the famed Arnald Swangan, the eldest son of a count and a famously cold-hearted and handsome lieutenant colonel. And now the war has ended, he's back. In response to Byletta's request for a divorce, he proposes an extraordinary "wager" with a month-long time limit. Byletta, a woman framed as a femme fatale by those around her, and the aloof Arnald, who has never loved before, are about to embark on their awkward will they/won't they love story!
Nineteen-year-old Nabom Chae never spent too much time wondering where her grandma got the money to support the two of them. That is, until she discovers a series of mysterious bank transfers to her grandma from a man named Taeseok Joo. When Taeseok finally appears in front of her, all he tells her is that she needs to get into college, and he'll keep supporting her family. After tragedy strikes, Nabom finds herself with no one else to turn to but her thirty-something, fierce-looking patron.
It isn't Nabom's fault that she grows to like the man - after all, he's really handsome, even if he's always nagging at her about studying. But can a romantic relationship really exist between two such different people? Well, Nabom is determined to find out.
This book is intended for a mature audience and contains explicit sexual material, alcohol use, and age gap romance.