The Summer You Were There

Shizuku Hoshikawa lives quietly, avoiding everyone, until a novel she wrote is accidentally read by her bright, popular classmate Kaori Asaka. Kaori's response changes everything: she asks Shizuku to be her girlfriend, just for the sake of the next story she wants to write. What begins as fiction slowly becomes something neither girl can put into words across one fragile summer. A delicate, aching romance about confidence and the feelings we keep hidden. Original title: きみとつづる うたかた (Kimi to Tsuzuru Utakata).