[DeepL Translation - needs review] Volume 1: Eto Mori, the pioneer of Japanese YA literature, depicts a group of junior high school students for the first time since winning the Naoki Prize. This is the first in a series of short stories depicting the adolescent years of 24 first-year junior high school classmates, each of whom is a main character in 24 stories. The stories include happy encounters, small misunderstandings, the thrill of first-time love, the anxiety of being left out, the em...
A collection of short, inter-linked stories where each chapter centers on one student from middle-school class of 24 kids, giving us a brief view into their life as they transition to adulthood. Feels a bit like a poor mans きみの友だち but I still enjoyed it and would recommend to anyone who likes these bittersweet coming-of-age style stories.
I imagine this is aimed at middle-school students so I think this would be a very natural choice for