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* BreakHerHeartToSaveHer: [[spoiler: Hiroshi, despondent after having failed to prevent his father from leaving, ultimately realizes that he is an adult and can't keep stringing Kotoko along forever, but his rebuttals of her concerned questions only makes it look as though he is lashing out at her, and she runs away in tears.]]
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* BreakHerHeartToSaveHer: [[spoiler: Hiroshi, despondent after having failed to prevent his father from leaving, ultimately realizes that he is an adult and can't keep stringing Kotoko Tomoko along forever, but his rebuttals of her concerned questions only makes it look as though he is lashing out at her, and she runs away in tears.]]
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* BreakHerHeartToSaveHer: [[spoiler: Hiroshi, despondent after having failed to prevent his father from leaving, does this to Kotoko without meaning to, resulting in her running away in tears.]]
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* BreakHerHeartToSaveHer: [[spoiler: Hiroshi, despondent after having failed to prevent his father from leaving, does this to ultimately realizes that he is an adult and can't keep stringing Kotoko without meaning to, resulting in along forever, but his rebuttals of her running concerned questions only makes it look as though he is lashing out at her, and she runs away in tears.]]
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* BreakHerHeartToSaveHer: [[spoiler: Hiroshi, despondent after having failed to prevent his father from leaving, does this to Kotoko without meaning to, resulting in her running away in tears.]]
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* PleaseDontLeaveMe: [[spoiler: Hiroshi says this almost verbatim as his father is about to board the train that takes that'll take him away from his family for good. It doesn't work.good.]]
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* TimeTravelRomance: ''Kind of''. Hiroshi travels back to his teenage years and accidentally attracts the interest of Tomoko Nagase, a beautiful and studious girl who in his original timeline had never even spoken to him. Tomoko soon falls for him, and while Hiroshi doesn't properly reciprocate, he doesn't dissuade her from pursuing him, either. That said, he is also quite attracted to Mrs Shimada's pretty employee, who of course thinks he's just a kid and pays him no mind.
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* TimeTravelRomance: ''Kind of''.Meshed together with AgeDownRomance. Hiroshi travels back to his teenage years and accidentally attracts the interest of Tomoko Nagase, a beautiful and studious girl who in his original timeline had never even spoken to him. Tomoko soon falls for him, and while Hiroshi doesn't properly reciprocate, he doesn't dissuade her from pursuing him, either. That said, he is also quite attracted to Mrs Shimada's pretty employee, who of course thinks he's just a kid and pays him no mind.
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* PleaseDontLeaveMe: [[spoiler: Hiroshi says this almost verbatim as his father is about to board the train that takes him away from his family for good. It doesn't work.]]
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* WarIsHell: Hiroshi's father Yoshio is a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII vet and went through hell during Japan's Burma campaign.
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* WarIsHell: Hiroshi's father Yoshio is a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII vet and went through hell during Japan's Burma campaign.campaign, including a bout of malaria that would have killed him had it not been for Shinichi.
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* OhCrap: Hiroshi gets several.
** When he walks Tomoko home after they get acquainted in the school library, and it hits him that nothing of the sort had ever happened in his original timeline.
** When he drinks himself into a stupor at Daisuke's and regains consciousness hours later; Daisuke then informs him that his mother rang Hiroshi's house, and that his father is on his way to pick him up.
** When it dawns on him that he, a 48 year old man with a wife and two children, is falling for Tomoko, a girl ''barely older than his own daughter''.
** When he walks Tomoko home after they get acquainted in the school library, and it hits him that nothing of the sort had ever happened in his original timeline.
** When he drinks himself into a stupor at Daisuke's and regains consciousness hours later; Daisuke then informs him that his mother rang Hiroshi's house, and that his father is on his way to pick him up.
** When it dawns on him that he, a 48 year old man with a wife and two children, is falling for Tomoko, a girl ''barely older than his own daughter''.
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* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: The more time Hiroshi spends in 1963, the more he acts and thinks like a teenage boy. He realizes this and worries that he might forget his adult life altogether.
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* SettleForSibling: Invoked with Kazue, whose ex father-in-law suggested that she could marry [[TheLostLenore Shinichi]]'s younger brother Shinji.
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* HowDadMetMom: Hiroshi's grandmother tells him this story when he asks her about a memorial tablet on the family altar, dedicated to a man he doesn't know. The man in question is Shinichi Kotani, his mother's first husband, who met Hiroshi's father in the army and saved his life. Shinichi was killed in action and Yoshio made it his sworn duty to bring his remains back home to his family. He and Shinichi's widow became very close friends, eventually falling in love.
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* LikesOlderWomen: Good grief, Daisuke. He takes seemingly no notice of girls his own age, but is quick to comment on beautiful older women like Kazue or Tamiko, and he even takes his mother's employee out on a "date". He seems to think he and Hiroshi have this in common, which [[TrappedInThePast technically isn't inaccurate]].
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* PenName: [[spoiler: Daizaburo Horie is Daisuke Shimada's ''nom de plume''. Also Hiroshi's friend Takashi, who eventually grows up to be a famous mangaka by the name of Ryu Hamada.]]
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* TimeTravelRomance: ''Kind of''. Hiroshi travels back to his teenage years and accidentally attracts the interest of Tomoko Nagase, a beautiful and studious girl who in the real his original timeline had never even spoken to him. Tomoko soon falls for him, and while Hiroshi doesn't properly reciprocate, he doesn't dissuade her from pursuing him, either. That said, he is also quite attracted to Mrs Shimada's pretty employee, who of course thinks he's just a kid and pays him no mind.
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* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Hiroshi's mother Kazue and her first husband Shinichi are a tragic spin on this, since Shinichi was drafted to war not long after they were married and was subsequently killed in action.
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* TimeTravelRomance: ''Kind of''. Hiroshi travels back to his teenage years and accidentally attracts the interest of Tomoko Nagase, a beautiful and studious girl who in the real timeline had never even spoken to him. Tomoko soon falls for him, and while Hiroshi doesn't properly reciprocate, he doesn't dissuade her from pursuing him, either. That said, he is also quite attracted to Mrs Shimada's pretty employee, who of course thinks he's just a kid and pays him no mind.
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Some of Hiroshi's more adult behaviors, such as smoking a cigarette with unexpected ease or downing whisky with little difficulty, tend to rub people up the wrong way since to them he looks like a 14 year-old boy.
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* MistakenForCheating: As he investigates the possible reasons why his father would want to abandon the family, Hiroshi tails him all the way to the hospital in Tottori; there he finds out that his father has been paying regular visits to his childhood friend Tamiko, who is terminally ill, but he quickly realizes that these visits really are just that.
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* MistakenForCheating: As he investigates the possible reasons why his father would want to abandon the family, Hiroshi tails him all the way to the hospital in Tottori; there he finds out that his father Yoshio has been paying regular visits to his childhood friend Tamiko, who is terminally ill, but he Hiroshi quickly realizes that these visits really are just that.
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* StacysMom: Daisuke is quite floored at how beautiful Hiroshi's mother is.
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* MistakenForCheating: As he investigates the possible reasons why his father would want to abandon the family, Hiroshi tails him all the way to the hospital in Tottori; there he finds out that his father has been paying regular visits to his childhood friend Tamiko, who is terminally ill, but he quickly realizes that these visits really are just that.
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* WarIsHell: Hiroshi's father is a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII vet and went through hell during Japan's Burma campaign.
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* TheAlcoholic: In his forties, Hiroshi is frequently derided by his family as being a drunk, and being hungover is actually what causes him to board the wrong train.
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* RetroactivePrecognition: Hiroshi gets drunk on Daisuke's hidden whisky and starts to prattle about things to come, such as the death of famous sumo wrestler {{Wrestling/Rikidozan}}. Daisuke is appropriately creeped out, but not as much as when a sober Hiroshi later tells him about his father's upcoming disappearance.
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* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Hiroshi's kid sister. As a real teen he got along reasonably well with her, but as an adult in a teen's body he no longer has any patience for her.
* BeachEpisode
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Hiroshi went back to the present in 1998 after he collapses in the cemetary in the 1960s. He reunites with his family and doesn't know what happened to his father. However, Daisuke left him a book dedicated to him, which was left in a package with his wife.]]
* BeachEpisode
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Hiroshi went back to the present in 1998 after he collapses in the cemetary in the 1960s. He reunites with his family and doesn't know what happened to his father. However, Daisuke left him a book dedicated to him, which was left in a package with his wife.]]
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* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Hiroshi's kid sister.sister Kyoko. As a real teen he got along reasonably well with her, but as an adult in a teen's body he no longer has any patience for her.
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BeachEpisode: Hiroshi and Tomoko bring their respective younger siblings to the beach.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Hiroshiwent gets back to the present in 1998 after he collapses in the cemetary in the 1960s. He reunites with his family and doesn't know what happened to his father. However, Daisuke left sent him a package containing a book dedicated to him, which was left in him.]]
* DrowningMySorrows: Hiroshi accidentally gets wasted apackage with second time after his wife.]]father leaves.
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* GetBackToTheFuture: Hiroshi tries this exactly once, by praying at the family grave the way he did before he was sent back in time. It doesn't work.
* InSpiteOfANail: Hiroshi's time travel experience doesn't seem to have altered anything when he gets back to 1998. [[spoiler: Unless you count his old buddy Daisuke reaching out to him across time and even dedicating his novel to him.]]
* InSpiteOfANail: Hiroshi's time travel experience doesn't seem to have altered anything when he gets back to 1998. [[spoiler: Unless you count his old buddy Daisuke reaching out to him across time and even dedicating his novel to him.]]
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He wakes up feeling oddly different. He's shorter and lighter than he's been in decades. Looking at his reflection, he realizes he has been sent back in time, and he is once again a 14-year-old boy. He must re-adapt to the school and family life of a teenager in the early 1960's, all the while trying to figure out why his father mysteriously disappeared that summer, never to return.
The story was adapted to movie format in 2010 with the French film ''Quartier Lointain,'' which moved the setting to 1960's France. Taniguchi got a [[TheCameo cameo]] in it.
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He wakes up feeling oddly different. He's shorter and lighter than he's been in decades. Looking at his reflection, he realizes he has been sent back in time, and he is once again a 14-year-old boy. He must re-adapt to the school and family life of a teenager in the early 1960's, 1960s, all the while trying to figure out why his father mysteriously disappeared that summer, never to return.
The story was adapted to movie format in 2010 with the French film ''Quartier Lointain,'' which moved the setting to1960's 1960s France. Taniguchi got a [[TheCameo cameo]] in it.
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* FishOutOfTemporalWater: The early 1960's 1960s were a different time.
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* IllGirl: [[spoiler:The childhood friend who Hiroshi's father was secretly visiting.]]
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''To a Distant Town'' (original title 遥かな町へ) is a {{Seinen}} manga by Creator/JiroTaniguchi.
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''To a Distant Town'' (original title 遥かな町へ) is a {{Seinen}} manga by Creator/JiroTaniguchi.
Creator/JiroTaniguchi, which ran in ''Big Comic'' from 1998 to 1999.
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* MythArc: One of the things Hiroshi did when he ''went'' back to the past is to figure out what happened to his father, who somehow walked out of his family.
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* WarIsHell: Hiroshi's father is a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII vet and went through hell during Japan's Burma campaign.
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* PeggySue: Hiroshi. He, [[spoiler: much like the Trope Namer, returns to his older body with a new book dedicated to him by someone he heavily interacted with him in the past]] waiting for him at home.
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''To a Distant Town'' (original title 遥かな町へ) is a {{Seinen}} manga by [[Creator/JiroTaniguchi Taniguchi Jiro]].
Nakahara Hiroshi is a middle-aged {{Salaryman}} who feels disconnected from his wife and children, and is haunted by a sense of existential failure. One early morning, after a night out, he takes the wrong commuter train home and ends up in the suburban town where he spent his early life. On a whim, he decides to visit his mother's grave, and while he prays in front of it, he passes out.
He wakes up feeling oddly different. He's shorter and lighter than he's been in decades. Looking at his reflection, he realizes he has been sent back in time, and he is once again a 14-year-old boy. He must readapt to the school and family life of a teenager in the early 1960s, all the while trying to figure out why his father mysteriously disappeared that summer, never to return.
The story was adapted to movie format in 2010 with the French film ''Quartier lointain'', which moved the setting to 1960s France. Taniguchi got a [[TheCameo cameo]] in it.
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Nakahara Hiroshi is a middle-aged {{Salaryman}} who feels disconnected from his wife and children, and is haunted by a sense of existential failure. One early morning, after a night out, he takes the wrong commuter train home and ends up in the suburban town where he spent his early life. On a whim, he decides to visit his mother's grave, and while he prays in front of it, he passes out.
He wakes up feeling oddly different. He's shorter and lighter than he's been in decades. Looking at his reflection, he realizes he has been sent back in time, and he is once again a 14-year-old boy. He must readapt to the school and family life of a teenager in the early 1960s, all the while trying to figure out why his father mysteriously disappeared that summer, never to return.
The story was adapted to movie format in 2010 with the French film ''Quartier lointain'', which moved the setting to 1960s France. Taniguchi got a [[TheCameo cameo]] in it.
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''To a Distant Town'' (original title 遥かな町へ) is a {{Seinen}} manga by [[Creator/JiroTaniguchi Taniguchi Jiro]].
Creator/JiroTaniguchi.
Nakahara Hiroshi is amiddle-aged {{Salaryman}} middle aged {{Salaryman}}, who feels disconnected from his wife and children, and is haunted by a sense of existential failure. One early morning, after a night out, he takes the wrong commuter train home and ends up in the suburban town where he spent his early life. On a whim, he decides to visit his mother's grave, and while he prays in front of it, he passes out.
He wakes up feeling oddly different. He's shorter and lighter than he's been in decades. Looking at his reflection, he realizes he has been sent back in time, and he is once again a 14-year-old boy. He mustreadapt re-adapt to the school and family life of a teenager in the early 1960s, 1960's, all the while trying to figure out why his father mysteriously disappeared that summer, never to return.
The story was adapted to movie format in 2010 with the French film ''Quartierlointain'', Lointain,'' which moved the setting to 1960s 1960's France. Taniguchi got a [[TheCameo cameo]] in it.
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* PeggySue: Hiroshi
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* WarIsHell: Hiroshi's father is a WW2 vet and went through hell during Japan's Burma campaign.
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''ToADistantTown'' (original title 遥かな町へ) is a {{Seinen}} manga by [[JiroTaniguchi Taniguchi Jiro]].
Nakahara Hiroshi is a middle-aged {{Salaryman}} who feels disconnected from his wife and children, and is haunted by a sense of existential failure. One early morning, after a night out, he takes the wrong commuter train home and ends up in the suburban town where he spent his early life. On a whim, he decides to visit his mother's grave, and while he prays in front of it, he passes out.
He wakes up feeling oddly different. He's shorter and lighter than he's been in decades. Looking at his reflection, he realizes he has been sent back in time, and he is once again a 14-year-old boy. He must readapt to the school and family life of a teenager in the early 1960s, all the while trying to figure out why his father mysteriously disappeared that summer, never to return.
The story was adapted to movie format in 2010 with the French film ''Quartier lointain'', which moved the setting to 1960s France. Taniguchi got a [[TheCameo cameo]] in it.
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!!Contains examples of:
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Hiroshi's kid sister. As a real teen he got along reasonably well with her, but as an adult in a teen's body he no longer has any patience for her.
* BeachEpisode
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: The early 1960s were a different time.
* IllGirl: [[spoiler:The childhood friend who Hiroshi's father was secretly visiting.]]
* {{Joshikousei}}: Tomoko.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Inside that 14-year-old's body is the mind of an adult man from 35 years in the future.
* ParentalAbandonment: Hiroshi never got over his father's unexplained disappearance.
* PeggySue: Hiroshi
* PragmaticAdaptation: The film version, while otherwise faithful to the orginal story, moved the setting to France.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Hiroshi tries to do it, but it's more complicated than it looks.
* TrappedInThePast: Hiroshi is sent back in time to his early teenage years.
* WarIsHell: Hiroshi's father is a WW2 vet and went through hell during Japan's Burma campaign.
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''ToADistantTown'' (original title 遥かな町へ) is a {{Seinen}} manga by [[JiroTaniguchi Taniguchi Jiro]].
Nakahara Hiroshi is a middle-aged {{Salaryman}} who feels disconnected from his wife and children, and is haunted by a sense of existential failure. One early morning, after a night out, he takes the wrong commuter train home and ends up in the suburban town where he spent his early life. On a whim, he decides to visit his mother's grave, and while he prays in front of it, he passes out.
He wakes up feeling oddly different. He's shorter and lighter than he's been in decades. Looking at his reflection, he realizes he has been sent back in time, and he is once again a 14-year-old boy. He must readapt to the school and family life of a teenager in the early 1960s, all the while trying to figure out why his father mysteriously disappeared that summer, never to return.
The story was adapted to movie format in 2010 with the French film ''Quartier lointain'', which moved the setting to 1960s France. Taniguchi got a [[TheCameo cameo]] in it.
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!!Contains examples of:
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Hiroshi's kid sister. As a real teen he got along reasonably well with her, but as an adult in a teen's body he no longer has any patience for her.
* BeachEpisode
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: The early 1960s were a different time.
* IllGirl: [[spoiler:The childhood friend who Hiroshi's father was secretly visiting.]]
* {{Joshikousei}}: Tomoko.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Inside that 14-year-old's body is the mind of an adult man from 35 years in the future.
* ParentalAbandonment: Hiroshi never got over his father's unexplained disappearance.
* PeggySue: Hiroshi
* PragmaticAdaptation: The film version, while otherwise faithful to the orginal story, moved the setting to France.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Hiroshi tries to do it, but it's more complicated than it looks.
* TrappedInThePast: Hiroshi is sent back in time to his early teenage years.
* WarIsHell: Hiroshi's father is a WW2 vet and went through hell during Japan's Burma campaign.
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