A single episode that moves like a love letter to a real place, drawn frame by frame with the patience of someone who actually cares. The romance isn't trying to break you, it's just two people finding each other in the kind of town most anime forget exists. 2,381 hand-drawn pages for 24 minutes of pure, quiet devotion.
A short romance set in Omachi, a town in Nagano Prefecture, made with its tourism ambassador Tekken, who calls the town home. The story follows love between men and women and moves through real local spots, among them Shinano-Omachi Station, the Omachi hot springs village and the Omachi Mountain Museum. Tekken spent three months writing it, and the film runs on 2381 pages of hand-drawn animation, set to a gentle mix of music, romance and everyday life.