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Ayumu Fujino is a fourth grader who draws a manga strip for the school newspaper. Her art makes her the star of the class, but one day she's told that Kyomoto, a student who refuses to come to school, would also like to submit a manga for the paper... (Source: MANGA Plus, edited)
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Aoba Ward, Sendai City
仙台市青葉区
This residential area in Sendai serves as the primary setting for the protagonists' childhood and school life. The quiet suburban neighborhoods with traditional Japanese houses reflect the peaceful atmosphere where Fujino and Kyomoto develop their friendship and passion for manga creation.
Photo by Anawat Suppasri, Nobuo Shuto, Fumihiko Imamura, Shunichi Koshimura, Erick Mas, Ahmet Cevdet Yalciner: "Lessons Learned from the 2011 Great East Japan Tsunami: Performance of Tsunami Countermeasures, Coastal Buildings, and Tsunami Evacuation in Japan", Pure and Applied Geophysics, 170, 6-8, (2013), pp. 993–1018, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-012-0511-7, online published on 7 July 2012, here: p. 1014, Figure 29 ("Toni-Hongo village after the 1933 Showa Sanriku tsunami, before the 2011 Tohoku tsunami, and after the 2011 Tohoku tsunami"), License: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0). URL of the image file: https://media.springernature.com/original/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1007%2Fs00024-012-0511-7/MediaObjects/24_2012_511_Fig29_HTML.jpg. (CC BY 2.0) via Wikimedia Commons
Tohoku University Area
東北大学周辺
The university campus and surrounding areas represent the academic environment that influences the characters' growth and artistic development. The modern campus buildings and student atmosphere provide a backdrop for scenes depicting the characters' transition into young adulthood.
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Sendai Station Area
仙台駅周辺
The bustling central area around Sendai's main railway station serves as a urban contrast to the quieter residential scenes. This location represents the connection between the local setting and the broader world of professional manga publishing that the characters aspire to enter.