
“Stay with me this time.” On graduation day, I reflected on my dull high school years. My grades were bad, I’d given up on my dreams, and my girlfriend and I had broken up. She is now a famous musician. But on that day, there came news that Nito Chika, my ex-girlfriend, has disappeared. And then I found myself in a completely different reality. Dumbfounded… I had time-traveled into the past, back to the day of the high school entrance ceremony. Can I save Nito this time? …No, that’s not good enough. This time, I want to be on equal footing—able to stand alongside her. I’ll try my hardest to rewrite those three years! A youth redo love story that started with graduation. (Source: Dengeki Bunko, translated)
Ashita, Hadashi de Koi. is a Japanese novel of 437,708 characters, with 11,087 unique words and 1,800 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.2 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 11,087 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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