A Distant Neighborhood

遥かな町へ

Haruka na Machi e

16 chapters

2 volumes

1998 – 1998

A forty-eight-year-old salaryman named Hiroshi Nakahara accidentally gets on the wrong train heading to his hometown of Kurayoshi after a business trip in Kyoto. Accepting his mistake, he finds comfort in revisiting familiar surroundings, only to notice how much his childhood neighborhood has changed since his mother passed away twenty years ago. While visiting her grave at Genzen Temple, Hiroshi is inexplicably sent back into his fourteen-year-old body, but he keeps all his middle-aged memories and wisdom. Now an eighth-grade junior high student once more, he escapes the pressures of adult life with a wife and two daughters. With no clear way to return to his original timeline, Hiroshi embraces his second chance at youth. Alongside rediscovering his teenage years, he aims to uncover the reasons behind his father's departure from the family, seeking to understand his father's actions and decisions.

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Status: Finished
Format: Manga
Chapters: 16
Volumes: 2

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Authors

Taniguchi, Jiro

Serialized in

Big Comic

Volúmenes & Capítulos2 vol · 16 ch

Volume 1Ch. 1–8

Cap. 1
Cap. 2
Cap. 3
Cap. 4
Cap. 5
Cap. 6
Cap. 7
Cap. 8

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Background

Haruka na Machi e was published in English as A Distant Neighborhood by Ponent Mon/Fanfare in 2009, and again in a hardcover edition on September 15, 2016. It was also published in Spanish by Ponent Mon from May 2003 to to October 2003 (republished as a 2-in-1 omnibus in November 2009), and in Polish by Hanami in a one-volume edition in March 2010. The series was adapted into a live-action French film which released in Europe in 2010.