[DeepL Translation - needs review] Introduction to Volume 1: I am Nagisa Sawaki. I am in the sixth grade of elementary school. We run a guest house and have many guests throughout the year. It was still early for the opening of the beach, but we had a guest from Tokyo who planned to stay with us for a week. Three adults got out of a car as big as a minibus. They had a lot of luggage, some of it very heavy. What in the world was the purpose of their visit to this town? The summer of Nagisa an...
Relatively easy read, with lots of everyday vocabulary, but lacking an engaging story
もしも、この町で is a snippet of a 6th-year elementary school girl's life in an uneventful rural village, where her family runs a guest house.
With this in mind, it should come as no surprise that the story is very much character-driven, but unfortunately the 188 pages are as uneventful as our main character, Nagisa, and her siblings believe their village to be. They help their parents and grandmother run the guest house, we see Nagisa go to school and interact with her friends, their participation in