A Distant Neighborhood

遥かな町へ

Haruka na Machi e

Forty-eight-year-old salaryman Hiroshi Nakahara accidentally boards the wrong train to Tokyo following a business trip in Kyoto. He resigns himself to the situation and relaxes, discovering the train is headed toward his hometown of Kurayoshi. Strolling through the streets of his childhood neighborhood, he notices how drastically the area has transformed in the two decades since his mother passed away. While paying respects at her grave in Genzen Temple, he is suddenly transported back into the body of his fourteen-year-old self, retaining the memories and knowledge of his middle-aged mind. Now an eighth grader in junior high school, Hiroshi's restored youth allows him to escape the burdens of being an adult man with a wife and two daughters. Unsure how to return to his original timeline, he begins to experience his adolescence anew. During this time-travel journey, he seeks to discover the reasons behind his father's abandonment of the family, hoping to understand his father and his choices.

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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.

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