Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni
| In This Corner of the World | |
The cover of the first volume of the manga
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この世界の片隅に (Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni) |
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| Manga | |
| Written by | Fumiyo Kōno |
| Published by | Futabasha |
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| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Weekly Manga Action |
| Original run | 2007 – 2009 |
| Volumes | 3 |
| Live-action television film | |
| Directed by | Toya Sato |
| Produced by | Tomio Nishimuta Makoto Morikawa Yoshiyuki Watanabe |
| Written by | Taeko Asano |
| Music by | Takeshi Onishida |
| Released | August 5, 2011 |
| Runtime | 144 minutes |
| Anime film | |
In This Corner of the World (この世界の片隅に Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni) is a manga series written and illustrated by Fumiyo Kōno which ran from 2007 to 2009 in Weekly Manga Action. It follows the life of Suzu Urano, a young bride with her new family living on the outskirts of Kure City during the Second World War. It was translated by JManga under the title To All the Corners of the World. After JManga closed, Futabasha published the manga digitally and made it available to read on BookWalker, a digital manga store and app. It was later licensed by Seven Seas Entertainment for release in North America. It was adapted into a live-action television special.
An anime theatrical film adaptation was released in 2016.
The story follows Suzu, an innocent young Japanese woman who is a talanted illustrator who lives in Hiroshima and Kure, Japan during World War II. When Suzu was 18, she worked for a small family business when an unknown young man suddenly proposed to her. The man, "Shūsaku", lived in Kure as a navy civilian, remembered seeing Suzu ten years ago, with fantastic experiences. Suzu got married to him, moved to Kure from Hiroshima and joined Shūsaku's family. However, dark clouds of the war against US were approaching and threatening the ordinary Japanese people.
Kure, a large port city, is located within one hour by local train from Hiroshima. The port is facing Seto Inland Sea and widely known as the largest military base of Imperial Japanese Navy. As Japan was losing to the U.S., the living conditions in Japan were getting worse and U.S. military forces were threatening ordinary Japanese people.
In spite of the food shotage, Suzu made efforts to get over the hard conditions during the wartime and also to prepare to mitigate the bombing damage. In 1945, U.S. air raids started and heavily attacked warships and naval facilities and the city areas in Kure. Suzu was wondering if she will return to the hometown (Eba) in Hiroshima, not yet bombed, from the house of Kure. When Suzu was still in Kure, August 6, 1945, the atomic bombing horribly destroyed countless human beings and everything in Hiroshima.
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