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Wait For Me Yesterday in Spring
by Mei Hachimoku
I bought this book sometime in the summer of last year and have only just now gotten around to it. Why, I have no idea, since I wanted to read it so bad when I bought it. Then, when I finally cracked open the pages, I questioned myself again why it took me so long since I found myself immediately sucked into the story.
Wait for Me Yesterday in Spring follows Kanae Funami as he runs away from home in Tokyo and returns to his grandmother’s home over spring break. While back in hometown of Sodeshima, he runs into his best friend, Akari, and learns that his childhood hero—Akari’s brother—is dead. Not only that, but he gets hit with a phenomenon dubbed the ‘Rollback’—where he must live through the week backwards, starting from April 5th and back to April 1st. Throughout this phenomenon, he must make a difficult choice—prioritize his friend, or save her brother.
At first, I wasn’t sure how Hachimoku was going to pull off the whole main character literally living through time backwards thing, and she actually managed to pull it off without a hitch. It was truly impressive. I doubt I could write anything like that. I’d end up turning myself in circles!
As the story goes along, you learn more about the characters and their inner demons, and it makes everything within the plot just that much more complicated. The honest, brutal way she showed her characters flaws really made them jump off the page. I honestly felt so bad for Akari. The poor girl didn’t deserve to go through all that she did.
I also really liked the illustrations. They really brought an atmospheric feel to the story and I liked how they seemed to tease what would happen in the chapter, without giving away too many details.
There wasn’t really much of a romance aspect, other than Akari’s side of the story, and seeing how she and Kanae were extremely close as children. The story focused more on the characters’ complicated feelings and their immediate situations, which I felt was appropriate for the story. It was obvious that the two loved each other in their own ways, but it had a more realistic cast a less of the fiery passion or slow-burn romance you see in most young adult books nowadays. To be honest, I found it a breath of fresh air.
Overall, I really enjoyed Wait for Me Yesterday in Spring and how deeply it goes into the minds of the characters and showing how truly flawed and complicated human beings are with a realistic and satisfying resolution to the overall conflict. It’s a great read if you want less of the romance and more of the deep, psychological aspect as well as a little bit of the mystery element and that slice-of-life feel.
Wait for Me Yesterday in Spring follows Kanae Funami as he runs away from home in Tokyo and returns to his grandmother’s home over spring break. While back in hometown of Sodeshima, he runs into his best friend, Akari, and learns that his childhood hero—Akari’s brother—is dead. Not only that, but he gets hit with a phenomenon dubbed the ‘Rollback’—where he must live through the week backwards, starting from April 5th and back to April 1st. Throughout this phenomenon, he must make a difficult choice—prioritize his friend, or save her brother.
At first, I wasn’t sure how Hachimoku was going to pull off the whole main character literally living through time backwards thing, and she actually managed to pull it off without a hitch. It was truly impressive. I doubt I could write anything like that. I’d end up turning myself in circles!
As the story goes along, you learn more about the characters and their inner demons, and it makes everything within the plot just that much more complicated. The honest, brutal way she showed her characters flaws really made them jump off the page. I honestly felt so bad for Akari. The poor girl didn’t deserve to go through all that she did.
I also really liked the illustrations. They really brought an atmospheric feel to the story and I liked how they seemed to tease what would happen in the chapter, without giving away too many details.
There wasn’t really much of a romance aspect, other than Akari’s side of the story, and seeing how she and Kanae were extremely close as children. The story focused more on the characters’ complicated feelings and their immediate situations, which I felt was appropriate for the story. It was obvious that the two loved each other in their own ways, but it had a more realistic cast a less of the fiery passion or slow-burn romance you see in most young adult books nowadays. To be honest, I found it a breath of fresh air.
Overall, I really enjoyed Wait for Me Yesterday in Spring and how deeply it goes into the minds of the characters and showing how truly flawed and complicated human beings are with a realistic and satisfying resolution to the overall conflict. It’s a great read if you want less of the romance and more of the deep, psychological aspect as well as a little bit of the mystery element and that slice-of-life feel.