Tsuki ga Kirei

Kotarou Azumi wants to become a writer, while Akane Mizuno spends her afternoons training with the track team. They enter their final year of middle school as near strangers and begin noticing one another through small encounters that neither quite knows how to interpret. Their conversations are hesitant in person and easier through messages sent after school.

What grows between them is quiet rather than dramatic, which makes every uncertainty feel larger. Friends develop feelings of their own, parents make plans for the future, competitions and entrance exams approach, and the possibility of attending different schools hangs over them. Kotarou and Akane are learning their first romance at the same time they are learning that liking someone does not automatically tell you how to stay beside them.