Umi ga Kikoeru

Taku Morisaki looks back on his high school years in Kochi, when Rikako Muto arrived as a talented transfer student from Tokyo after her parents' separation. Her beauty and abilities do little to help her fit in; she is difficult, sometimes abrasive, and carrying anger her classmates do not understand. Taku's close friend Yutaka is the first to fall for her, but a chain of events draws Taku himself deeper into Rikako's personal troubles, especially during a school trip and an impulsive journey back to Tokyo. Unspoken feelings begin threatening his friendship with Yutaka while Taku cannot fully explain what attracts him to Rikako. Years later, he must reconsider those memories to understand what he was too young to recognize at the time.