You Will Wake Up in the Spring
君は春に目を醒ます
Synopsis
Terminal illness puts boy in 7-year coma; he awakens to find his love now his teacher.
Ito and Chiharu, though seven years apart, both share a very deep friendship in which Ito has an unrequited love for Chiharu. In a turn of events, Chiharu is inflicted with a terminal illness and is put into an induced comatose state in hopes that a cure will be developed while he is sleeping. After seven years, Chiharu wakes up, and finds that Ito is now the same age as him, and that his then-classmate has become his homeroom teacher. (Source: MU) Included one-shots: Volume 1: Daremo Kizukanai de Volume 2: Oto no Arika
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