[DeepL Translation - needs review] Introduction to Volume 1: "You should write down your wishes in this diary. Kohei writes his wishes in a diary given to him by his late grandmother. He wants to see his grandmother again, to ride the Nozomi train again, and for his father and mother to make up. ...... When he wrote in the diary, his wishes mysteriously came true. Kohei, who earned the nickname "Oboranger" after drowning in swimming class in the third grade, hopes to learn to swim this year....
Good beginner book (+ male protagonist)
Prior to this, I had read some of the easier kid books with young girls as their protagonists (夜カフェ and 四つ子ぐらし) and unfortunately I couldn't relate to them at all and found them pretty boring.
I was delighted to discover this book series which is around the same difficulty level as those, but tells the story of a young boy instead and has themes that I could relate to.
In short, the book is about a boy who is gifted a special journal by his dying grandma. She tells him that if he writes his wi