A beautiful 17-year-old high school sophomore who attends Kazamizawa High School. She is an odd and reserved person. Because of it she has problems expressing her emotions, and as a result, people around tend to misunderstand her.

She was once the top athlete in the women’s track and field club at her school, but due a severe foot injury during a race she was forced to give it up. She harbors vague regret and bitterness about leaving the track and field club, therefore she consciously tries to avoid anything related to it, even contact with former teammates.

She started to work as a part-time waitress in a family restaurant called “Café Restaurant Garden” afterwards. There she meets Masami Kondou, the restaurant manager, a 45-year-old divorced man. 

After seeing her down, Kondou tries to talk to her. The conversation becomes a turning point for Akira as she regains hope. She starts to fall in love with him from that point on.

Akira Tachibana was once the ace of a track club, but an injury forced her to quell her passion for sports. Masami Kondou, a divorced father, had ambitions of being a writer and now manages a restaurant, where Akira works. It is the intersection of Akira and Masami’s seemingly disconnected lives that makes each of them reconsider and redefine everything about themselves. 
 
(Source: Sentai Filmworks)

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Akira Tachibana. 17 years old, high school junior. Akira, awkward when it comes to expressing her feelings, finds herself secretly falling for the manager of the family restaurant where she works, one Masami Kondo, age 45. The curtain rises on the small love story that begins to unfold between Akira, stuck standing on the crossroads of adolescence, and Kondo, at the turning point of his own life…
 
(Source: Kodansha USA)
 
Notes:
 
- Includes the epilogue. 
- The publishing rights of the manga got acquired by Shueisha on 2025, and the first volume of its Shinsouban got published on April 17th, 2025.