“Two terminally ill young adults flee hospice to journey across Japan toward Awaji Island's narcissus fields.”
Narcissu
ナルキッソス
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Two terminally ill young adults flee hospice to journey across Japan toward Awaji Island's narcissus fields.
The anonymous protagonist is diagnosed with lung carcinoma shortly after his twentieth birthday, and is admitted to hospice care at a hospital in Mito, Ibaraki. There he meets Setsumi, a woman who is few years older than he is, who is also terminally ill. Finding that they both refuse to die in the hospital or at home with their families, they run away together in a silver Honda Integra belonging to the protagonist's father. They travel west across Japan's many highways and prefectures, initially not knowing where to go, but later collectively decide on taking the narcissus fields of southern Awaji Island as a somewhat arbitrary destination. (Source: Wikipedia)
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A Manga Publication
- Format 12 × 2 ch × vol
- Total read 1h 36m approx
- Published Nov 2008 – Dec 2009
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M36758 catalog