Abstract

The midnight express heads north in search of love.
But who is waiting at the final station…?

“No… this can’t be happening, right?”
One morning in Kobe, Kotoha arrives at work only to find that her company has gone bankrupt.
She calls her long-distance boyfriend, Kaito, who lives in Sapporo, to share her anxiety—
but his vague, evasive response only adds to her unease.
A shadow of his ex-girlfriend seems to linger in the background.

Confused and heartbroken, Kotoha impulsively boards a midnight express to go see him.
Along the way, she meets fellow passengers with secrets of their own—encounters that begin to change her heart.

A heartwarming story with a deeply moving ending.

Author’s Information

Born in Nara Prefecture and currently living in Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, he made his debut in 2014 with "Someday, I'll Fall Asleep" (Starts Publishing), which won the 8th Japan Mobile Novel Award, and was adapted into a TV drama series for Fuji TV FOD and terrestrial broadcasting in 2019, and later into a comic book.
In 2019, his work was dramatized in Fuji Television's FOD and terrestrial TV series, and later turned into a comic book. Other works include "Kon, Kimi no Hitomi no Me ni Eiko wa" (What I See in Your Eyes Now) Kitakami Syndrome" (Jitsugyo no Nihonsha), "Kimi ga Aurora wo Mieru Yoru ni" (KADOKAWA), "Kanai nai Koi wo
Kanae Method" (Suteki Books), and many other popular works.
His signature "human fantasy with unexpected twists and turns that make you cry" and her works on the theme of life and death have a strong fan base.