Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms

Yuunagi no Machi (Town of Evening Calm) The 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima ravaged the land and its populace, leaving behind a devastating aftermath. In the recovering city a decade later, Minami Hirano and her mother strive to save enough money to reunite with Minami's younger brother, who was separated from the family during the crisis. While Minami's hard work and tenacity have taken her this far, she is constantly tormented by traumatizing visions of the past, which are amplified by the pe...

Yuunagi no Machi Sakura no Kuni won the Grand Prize in the manga category at the eighth Japan Media Arts Festival in 2004. In 2005, it received the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Creative Award. Futabasha made available a bunkoban edition, and Coamix later re-issued the series under the Xenon Comics la...