While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother’s tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko, a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the boy’s mother. As he tries to adjust, this strange new world grows even stranger following the appearance of a persistent gray heron, who perplexes and bedevils Mahito, dubbing him the “long-awaited one.”
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Koperu-kun is a junior high school student and experiences many different things in his school. He often is given advice from his uncle about life and how to be a good person. A good portion of the book is written in the form of notebook entries and reads vertically like a novel. Most of the book is in manga form.

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