The remnants of a lost love and the man who took his place
Also known as: Koi No Zangai To Kawari No Otoko
Synopsis
ππΈ The protagonist, Akio Ogata, comes from a family with an old tradition:βEvery summer, the youngest son of the Ogata family must appear before Tsukimori-sama.βBecause of this, Akio has been sent away to a remote, uneventful countryside village every summer since he was a child.One summer, when he is nine, Akio gets lost in the mountains and encounters a young, beautiful man.Unable to forget him, Akio eventually grows up and moves to the countryside. One day, as if drawn there by some unseen force, he ventures into the mountains and is overjoyed to be reunited with the man.But the name the man tearfully calls out with such affection is not Akioβs.It is the name of Akioβs great-grandfather: Haruomi.