Jan 18, 2024
"Himawari-san" is a pure love story between a young bookstore owner and a terribly smitten girl who comes to visit her every day from the high school nearby.
The story takes its time to develop the relationship between the two girls as it focuses on illustrating how books can profoundly shape our lives and relationships. It explores what's fundamentally human about wanting to tell stories and wanting to read them.
Each character in this story is made of love. They exist because of love. Through tough times, they keep going because of love. They smile, they laugh, and they cry all because of love. They write because
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of love. They read because of love. We see this time and time again as we're taken through their lives, from difficult pasts to the present day-to-day. Through ends and beginnings across generations in an old bookstore that soon feels like home, to us as much as the characters.
If you'd like to smile, laugh, and cry, please try picking this story up. Just as Miss Sunflower says herself, the random chance of coming across a particular gem of a story in an ocean filled with them is one of the many things that makes falling in love so fun.
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"The blissful warmth from having her by my side reminded me of the days from back then, because just as Miss Sunflower had offered words of forgiveness, Matsuri has always given me words of love."
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Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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