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The story is set in a rural village, and is about Yoshiki, a high schooler, whose childhood best friend got lost in the mountains and returned, but somehow changed.
I loved the story a lot, it's very emotional and makes you think a lot about humanity. I think the characters had very interesting relationships, and also the side characters were more than just background noise (e.g. Kurebayashi-san, Asako). Of course the relationship of Yoshiki and Hikaru plays a major role, and here also I liked how Yoshiki was portrayed with his conflicting emotions regarding what he feels for Hikaru and where his place in this world is.
The horror elements are relatively tame, more towards suspense and a bit of ickyness. There's many elements of religious belief and folklore.
Given that there's furigana, I found the Kansai dialect (seems to be Mie or Gifu dialect most likely according to some blogs) surprisingly easy to understand, it's relatively sufficient to look up the most common word change rules and memorize those. I even grew a bit attached to it, I think it has such an interesting sound to it compared to standard Japanese.