“Junior high student Akari Naruse vows to dedicate her summer to saving Otsu's closing Seibu Department Store.”
Naruse Series
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Junior high student Akari Naruse vows to dedicate her summer to saving Otsu's closing Seibu Department Store.
The main character is Akari Naruse, a teenager in her second year of junior high school in Otsu, a small city on the shores of Lake Biwa in Shiga Prefecture, not far from Kyoto. One day just before the start of the long summer vacation, she announces to Miyuki Shimazaki, her friend since childhood who lives in the same apartment building: "I've made up my mind, Shimazaki. I'm going to dedicate this summer to Seibu." The Seibu in question is the struggling Seibu Department Store, whose Otsu branch is scheduled to shut on August 31. (Source: nippon.com)
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- Published Mar 2023 – ongoing
- Source Novel media type
- Ref. BS-M79010 catalog