Mei Yumi

Tales of Seasons Mei Yumi

Agreeable seasons come and go every year. A constant change of four seasons, however, is not always constant. Incidents to happen will happen if not prevented. Groups of humans live in the one world. They are curious to others' way of living, of which they enjoy taking a glimpse from time to time. Nevertheless, they are irrelevant to each other in fact as if they live in different worlds. Each tale in the trilogy circulates through four seasons, seemingly indifferent to other tales. In the outer loop, mother and her fiance drowned. It was dealt with as a mere accident although her teenage daughter might have known the real cause of their death. In the inner loop 1, a wealthy woman invested large sums in purchase of an expensive estate for her favorite hair artist to be independent. Her desire to divorce her husband and marry the young hair artist shattered suddenly. In the inner loop 2, an old female master of indigo dyeing was found unconscious in her factory. Her family had to decide the better way to end her life on the Earth. Tales in the trilogy start in different seasons. It's the reader's choice to start reading from which season. Enjoy Japanese traditional events of the seasons as well.