“Grieving Takeru finds a parallel world where his dead friend lives—while he himself is the one who died.”
Inai Boku wa Hotarumachi ni Iru
いないボクは蛍町にいる
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Synopsis
Grieving Takeru finds a parallel world where his dead friend lives—while he himself is the one who died.
Despondent over the death of his best friend, Takeru wishes on a shooting star to meet Takuya one last time. A glimmer of light leads him to an ancient tree stump with a giant hole in it; a hole that impossibly leads to an entire city. It's the same city as his—the same people and places—but, with a key difference: the Takuya in that world is alive and well...while Takeru is not. (Source: Lovely Strange Dark)
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A Manga Publication
- Format 10 × 2 ch × vol
- Total read 1h 20m approx
- Published Dec 2013 – Jun 2015
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M41561 catalog