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Hotaka and his coastal community of Omori-wan try to rebuild after a devastating tsunami, but Hotaka misses his best friend who was lost in the disaster and becomes entangled with his other friend Sakura's anti-seawall movement.
First publish date: 2017
Authors: John Heffernan
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