Kono Sekai no (Sara ni Ikutsumono) Katasumi ni (In This Corner (and Other Corners) of the World)

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Grownups often say that I always daydream in the day.

Hey! Where are you heading to?

I'm delivering nori to Futaba in Nakajima Honmachi.

Usually my brother takes care of this, but today he is sick with a cold...

So I must fu... fulfill...

It's okay. You don't have to be so formal.

Don't sit over there, there's scattered gravel everywhere.

First I'll deliver the nori, then I'll buy stuff for my brother and sister and go home.

I see...

Look.

We are almost there.

Oh! Stop gazing off into space!

Hiroshima New Year's Sale

Chocolate - 10 sen.

A large packet of caramel - 10 sen, small - 5 sen.

Yo-yo - 10 sen.

So, pull it up, pull up.

I want the red one.

Please come in.

Thank you very much for your patronage.

In This Corner (and Other Corners) of the World

I lost my way in the city.

Then I saw an old man carrying a basket.

Suzu-chan, who is this?

A monster.

Eh?

He said to me, "Climb up here and look in the telescope".

Wow! I can see real clearly!

I fell inside the basket, and there was an older boy.

He's a kidnapper, we're being kidnapped.

That's very bad.

I need to return by evening to feed the chickens.

I also need to meet my father at the train station to go home.

Me too, me too...

If I don't get home before sunset, I will be in trouble.

What's the trouble with him?

Now, see for yourself.

Hey Mister! Mister!

What is it?

There's something strange here, take a look.

Let me see.

At night, the monsters sleep soundly.

We're leaving him without dinner, poor fellow.

Thank you, Urano Suzu.

Oh, how do you know my name?

"Thank you, Urano Suzu".

Hey, stop making so much noise!

Maybe I was daydreaming again.

But everything that happened that day was like a dream.

The tide came in last night.

And this morning the tide has gone out.

We're going to cross the sea without grownups for the first time. That's great!

I'll say, "Good morning, uncle, aunt and grandmother from Kusatsu."

And I'll say "Our parents will join us later".

"Please have this watermelon."

Ah! Let me have it, I want to carry it!

Quiet!

Here, it's your turn to carry it.

My brother is always mean.

Wait...

Good morning.

Our parents will...

Here... the watermelon...

Thanks, our ancestors will appreciate it.

Oh my... What a lovely young lady you are.

Every year my grandmother sews a new kimono for me.

Here we are.

Mom and Dad returned from shopping in the city and we all went to the family grave.

The weather is good.

How's business now in Eba?

Well, things are getting pretty tough.

Is that so?

A lot of things happened.

But it's not all bad being young.

I think it lets me see things differently.

Good afternoon.

Say... do you want me to get you more watermelon?

Grandma...

Hey, the tide will be coming in soon.

Come on, wake up.

And you too, Sumi.

Come on.

Put it in the corner, she'll eat it later.

Uh-huh, tell me... if I leave her the kimono, will she wear it?

Suzu-chan, you're such a kind girl.

They mentioned in school that it was a Zashiki-warashi house spirit.

My brother explained everything to me.

At dusk, everything looked hazy but gentle.

You left your new kimono in Kusatsu?

Go swim there and get it back. Idiot!

My brother is the devil himself.

I forgot how terrible my brother can be.

Suzu, put it lower!

The wind will blow it away.

Uh-huh.

Mom, can I have a couple of sen.

My pencil's worn out.

You can buy one when you get your allowance.

You need to stop drawing horrible stuff.

Sumi, do you want to exchange pencils with me?

Nope.

Suzu, is Mizuhara Tetsu at school every day?

Eh? I think so...

It's cold!

The pencil is so short.

Will it even last a week?

You shouldn't throw stuff in there.

What?

Ahh!!!

There's nothing here.

Ah! Hey Mizuhara!

My ma told me to tell you...

to ask your mom if there's...

anything she can do to help her with...

Heck if I know.

Hey! This will do great!

Eh!

What are you doing!

Oy! You should give that back, Mizuhara!

Give it back!

Ah! I just dropped my other pencil in here yesterday!

Suzu-chan, you poor thing...

Just dip these in ink and write with them instead!

Ow! Ow! Ow!

Stop it! It hurts!

Ah! I forgot the girl's unwritten rule that when you see Mizuhara, you turn and run.

Draw anything you want today.

You can go home when it is done.

Yes!

What should we draw?

Hmm, not bad.

Good work, Urano.

Suzu-chan is such a good artist.

It almost makes up for you napping all morning!

I'm home!

I'll go and collect some dry pine needles.

Be careful.

Mizuhara, you won't be able to go home until you finish your drawing.

Go home?

My parents drink all day, they don't even collect nori.

I don't want to draw the sea... I hate it.

Urano, give me your hand.

This is for you.

Can I keep it?

It's my brother's pencil, I have plenty more.

The rabbits are jumping today.

The sea was like this when his ship capsized at New Year's.

Draw something for me, even this stupid sea.

Mizuhara, what did you mean earlier?

What?

Ah... the white waves looks like white rabbits hopping.

Mizuhara, please take my bad brother.

We don't want him.

We all run away from him when we see him.

But he's still better than my idiot brother who joined the Navy and drowned.

You know you're right, they really look like rabbits.

I'm done.

I picked your needles for you.

Thank you.

You shouldn't have bothered.

Now I have to go home. And with a drawing like this.

I can't hate the sea like this anymore.

The Imperial Navy is fighting bravely in the eastern waters of the Pacific...