“48-year-old salaryman time-travels to his 14-year-old body to relive youth and uncover father's abandonment reasons.”
A Distant Neighborhood
遥かな町へ
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Synopsis
48-year-old salaryman time-travels to his 14-year-old body to relive youth and uncover father's abandonment reasons.
Fourty-eight-year-old salaryman Hiroshi Nakahara accidentally takes the wrong train to Tokyo after a business trip in Kyoto. He decides to accept his situation and sit back when he learns that the train is headed toward his hometown in Kurayoshi. As he walks the streets of his childhood neighborhood, Hiroshi realizes how significantly the place has changed in the 20 years since his mother died. While visiting her grave in the Genzen Temple, he is transported back into the body of his 14-year-old self. Retaining the memories and wisdom of his middle-aged mind, he is now an eighth grader in junior high school. Hiroshi's regained youth enables him to escape the reality of being an adult man with a wife and two daughters. Unaware how to return to his original time, he begins to relive his adolescence. During his time travel, Hiroshi attempts to uncover the reasons for his father's abandonment of the family in hopes of understanding him and his actions.
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Derived from 12 sampled reviews
What 12 readers settled on.
Strong agreement
σ 1.03 · scores cluster tight
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Not enough recommend signal yet
↓ 0.67
Running avg · May 2009 → Jul 2025
- 7 “I appreciate the fine balance between agreeable formula and mature reflections on family life, as well as the respectable restraint shown by avoiding unnecessary ecchi tropes. However, the manga...”
- 7 “This manga offers a deeply compelling and self-reflective narrative that explores the complexities of family and personal choices through a grounded, unique time-travel premise. The story avoids...”
- 9 “This story offers a refreshing, unique take on time travel that avoids genre clichés, focusing instead on the poignant emotional journey of understanding adult motivations through a child's eyes....”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 16 × 2 ch × vol
- Total read 2h 08m approx
- Published Apr 1998 – Nov 1998
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M2808 catalog