Akira Chan Kara No Soyokaze

[Machine Translation] Amane Mukai, who has wanted a friend since she was born, is neither a "girl" nor a "boy" and is in the fifth grade of elementary school. She is just a human being. One day, one of the brightest and most popular girls in her grade, Yochanan, asked Amane to come over and play with her. Amane, who was caught off guard by the word "girl," made her first friend, Yochanan, and gradually made friends throughout junior high school, high school, and college, meeting and parting with them repeatedly. Later, Amane found a job, had a child not through love but through friendship, and eventually reached old age. As she looked back on her life, she realized that she could develop "friendship" with all things, transcending the lines of species, life, and death. The world is kind. A new novel of friendship is born!

生まれてからずっと友だちが欲しかった向井アマネは、「女子」でも「男子」でもない小学五年生。ただの人間。学校や集団にうまく馴染まずいつもひとりで過ごすアマネに、ある日、学年一明るくて人気のある陽ちゃんが「女子、みんなで遊ぼう」と声をかけてきた。「女子」という言葉にひっかかりながらも初めて陽ちゃんという友だちを得たアマネは、中学、高校、大学と、出会いと別れを繰り返しながら、少しずつ友だちを増やしていく。その後就職し恋愛ではなく友情から子どもを授かり、やがて老年期を迎えたアマネは、自分の人生を見つめるうちに、生物の種、生や死などの線も超えてあらゆるものと「友情」をはぐくめることに気づいた。世界は優しい。新しい友情小説の誕生!