Everlasting Flowers

Everlasting Flowers is a cinematic novel about Mina and Ran, two girls who meet while working at a seaside lodge and spend the summer confronting their emotional wounds and searching for a place to belong. Its short, movie-like story combines visuals and music, with an emphasis on visual presentation and a large number of illustrations.

Mina and Ran

Sakashita Mina moves to a new town to attend a famous all-girls high school. Feeling out of place among her affluent classmates, she stops going to school and spends the next year barely leaving her room, convinced she belongs nowhere else. Seino Ran, raised in a wealthy family and accustomed to following the life her parents planned for her, begins to see that nobody truly cares about her, and her seemingly happy life starts to fall apart.

The two apply for live-in jobs at a seaside lodge, where they meet and begin to trust each other. As Mina spends her days with Ran and the lodge owners, Yanase Michiko and Naruse Himari, she wishes she could stay there forever. But Ran’s friend Tachibana Sanami urges Mina to face her problems. Mina must decide how to confront her avoidance of school, her former friends and speaking her mind, as the girls’ time at the lodge runs short.

A cinematic novel

Everlasting Flowers is the first installment in a series of cinematic novels. The format focuses on visual presentation rather than length, using colorful CG effects and cinematic compositions to bring together story, images and music in a short, movie-like experience.