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Book Introduction
“This place is always open.
“For you, my most precious”
My stuffy mind feels refreshed
A place where lonely hearts are warmed
We have reopened with more affectionate comfort and deeper affection.
Tenderness Convenience Store: Part 2
*#1 bestseller in all bookstores
*2023's Best Healing Novel Series Part 2
*Sold 300,000 copies in Japan, 100,000 copies in Korea
The best healing novel of the first half of 2023, "The Convenience Store Where You Can Hear the Sea," which quickly entered the bestseller list immediately after its publication and topped the novel section of major bookstores, welcomes readers with its second story.
Volume 2, which exudes a sense of the season with a cool and refreshing cover illustration that looks like it was taken while snorkeling underwater, focuses on the ordinary neighbors connected around the fictional convenience store Tenderness in Moji Port, Kitakyushu, just like Volume 1.
The main characters from the previous volume are still active, including the devilishly handsome store manager who sprays pheromones on everyone regardless of age or gender, the Anything Man who solves customers' problems by recommending convenience store food with a blunt tone, the Red Grandpa who calls himself the Moji Port tourism ambassador using the Tenderness convenience store as his hideout, and the Shiba brothers' younger sister, Jueru, a beautiful girl with an unrealistic appearance. In addition, characters whose identities were unknown in Volume 1 or who stayed around the main characters unfold their own special stories.
In Volume 2, author Sonoko Machida delivers a more mature message that each person has their own struggles and pains to endure alone, as well as their own joys and pleasures to enjoy alone, and that those who ultimately overcome everything are those who truly love and care for someone or something, with delicate prose and realistic descriptions that surpass the first volume.
This second volume, which features Moji Port's famous food and Tenderness convenience store menus, will make you laugh and cry while reading, and you'll feel the urge to run to Moji Port Tenderness convenience store right away.
“For you, my most precious”
My stuffy mind feels refreshed
A place where lonely hearts are warmed
We have reopened with more affectionate comfort and deeper affection.
Tenderness Convenience Store: Part 2
*#1 bestseller in all bookstores
*2023's Best Healing Novel Series Part 2
*Sold 300,000 copies in Japan, 100,000 copies in Korea
The best healing novel of the first half of 2023, "The Convenience Store Where You Can Hear the Sea," which quickly entered the bestseller list immediately after its publication and topped the novel section of major bookstores, welcomes readers with its second story.
Volume 2, which exudes a sense of the season with a cool and refreshing cover illustration that looks like it was taken while snorkeling underwater, focuses on the ordinary neighbors connected around the fictional convenience store Tenderness in Moji Port, Kitakyushu, just like Volume 1.
The main characters from the previous volume are still active, including the devilishly handsome store manager who sprays pheromones on everyone regardless of age or gender, the Anything Man who solves customers' problems by recommending convenience store food with a blunt tone, the Red Grandpa who calls himself the Moji Port tourism ambassador using the Tenderness convenience store as his hideout, and the Shiba brothers' younger sister, Jueru, a beautiful girl with an unrealistic appearance. In addition, characters whose identities were unknown in Volume 1 or who stayed around the main characters unfold their own special stories.
In Volume 2, author Sonoko Machida delivers a more mature message that each person has their own struggles and pains to endure alone, as well as their own joys and pleasures to enjoy alone, and that those who ultimately overcome everything are those who truly love and care for someone or something, with delicate prose and realistic descriptions that surpass the first volume.
This second volume, which features Moji Port's famous food and Tenderness convenience store menus, will make you laugh and cry while reading, and you'll feel the urge to run to Moji Port Tenderness convenience store right away.
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Preview
index
prolog
Episode 1: Reflections on Grandmother and Love
Episode 2: Hirose Taro's Melancholy
Episode 3: The Queen's Fall
Epilogue
Episode 1: Reflections on Grandmother and Love
Episode 2: Hirose Taro's Melancholy
Episode 3: The Queen's Fall
Epilogue
Detailed image
Into the book
Ah, this is love after all.
I was convinced.
I love him.
Three months ago, I fell in love with that fleeting encounter.
It's hard to believe, though.
“Waka, let’s go buy some drinks quickly.”
I ran towards the cash register, hearing Makio's voice.
He seemed startled for a moment by my fearsome running towards him, but soon smiled as if he knew what I was thinking.
Oh, don't do that.
I told you not to laugh like that.
That one smile made me think you had accepted our fate.
---From the "Prologue"
“It’s a good thing to like someone.
“That’s really good.”
It sounded like something he was saying to Shino, and to Mitsu herself.
You can love someone no matter how old they are.
While you like someone, I hope you like yourself for liking them too.
If you cherish that person, you should also cherish yourself.
If you feel the heart of 'I like you' that makes you try to become a person worthy of that precious person, then that is definitely happiness.
It was a soft and warm voice.
Hearing that, Shino thought that her grandmother had developed a wonderful 'I like you' attitude.
The store manager gave the grandmother a gift of such great generosity that she began to like herself.
Shino realized that truly wonderful love can begin at any age and bring happiness no matter how old you are.
---From “Reflections on Grandmother and Love”
“There’s no way I would think of it as a nuisance.
“You are a valued customer of our store.”
It was a story that would normally be laughed at.
I'm not a big spender, I'm just a convenience store customer, but that's too much to say.
But somehow, those words became a ray of bright light and reached deep into Daro's heart.
“You are a valued guest.”
At that moment, tears started to flow.
Why on earth all of a sudden?
I wiped away my tears in a hurry.
Shiva pretended not to notice and returned to the store, saying, "Is it uncomfortable to rest with me here? I'll come back later to see if you're okay."
Daro cried in the empty dining corner.
I was happy that I was precious to someone.
Even if it was the first greeting from a convenience store clerk, it didn't matter.
My existence, which seemed to be buried and disappearing in this wide world, was acknowledged.
I felt as if I had been saved.
---From "The Melancholy of Hirose Taro"
I can't believe I'm confronting the issues I've kept in my heart for years, the grievances I've ignored.
Could a change of heart happen so easily?
But maybe it was originally like this.
Someone's warm gaze, a small thoughtful word, these are the things that push me to take a new step.
With that gentle power, people change.
Suddenly I looked up at the sky.
The blue sky is high and white birds fly elegantly.
---From "The Melancholy of Hirose Taro"
As Kurihara, who was speaking with an affectionate expression, looked unusually dazzling, Kurihara quietly placed his hand on Mizuki's fist.
Compared to Mizuki, his tiny hands are holding her hand tightly.
“If Murai regrets tormenting his friends now, let’s regret it together.
I'll tell you not to do that again.
“Wouldn’t that work?”
Now this child is trying to accept Mizuki.
Mizuki couldn't tell if this was a happy thing or a foolish thing.
It was the first time I heard a story like this.
Is it really possible for someone else to so easily accept the ugly mistake that he himself has only just now admitted? Is such a miracle really possible?
“You don’t know much about me.
Don't say it so easily.
“Someday you’ll get sick of me.”
“The word ‘tired’ is used by people who think they know the other person well.”
Gurihara answered coolly.
Mr. Shohei told me.
People who think they know everything without really grasping the essence, and people who are delusional and look at others with such words.
What the heck, this is the kind of person he is.
People who have watched that person closely and know him well don't say things like that.
I said that you don't judge a person's actions based on words like that.
i think so too.
---From "The Queen's Fall"
“…I have come to know the power of righteousness and the arrogance that comes with wielding it.
“More than anything, when I was thinking about who to give the plastic bottle filled with affection to, the first person that came to mind was the child of that house.”
Two plastic bottles given by Grandpa Red.
The affection that was asked to be passed on to someone else.
Grandpa Red told me to give those two bottles to Shima, but now he doesn't have to use them on Shima anymore.
Then, when I thought about who I should give it to, I remembered the child my father used to call 'Tatsuki'.
It is not known whether this can be the affection of two bottles.
Maybe it's an arrogant thought.
But I wanted to take action.
I wanted to hand it over.
Two desserts placed between Mizuki and Sumie.
A mother penguin and her baby penguin were leaning on each other in a seemingly harmonious manner on the soda-colored sea.
I was convinced.
I love him.
Three months ago, I fell in love with that fleeting encounter.
It's hard to believe, though.
“Waka, let’s go buy some drinks quickly.”
I ran towards the cash register, hearing Makio's voice.
He seemed startled for a moment by my fearsome running towards him, but soon smiled as if he knew what I was thinking.
Oh, don't do that.
I told you not to laugh like that.
That one smile made me think you had accepted our fate.
---From the "Prologue"
“It’s a good thing to like someone.
“That’s really good.”
It sounded like something he was saying to Shino, and to Mitsu herself.
You can love someone no matter how old they are.
While you like someone, I hope you like yourself for liking them too.
If you cherish that person, you should also cherish yourself.
If you feel the heart of 'I like you' that makes you try to become a person worthy of that precious person, then that is definitely happiness.
It was a soft and warm voice.
Hearing that, Shino thought that her grandmother had developed a wonderful 'I like you' attitude.
The store manager gave the grandmother a gift of such great generosity that she began to like herself.
Shino realized that truly wonderful love can begin at any age and bring happiness no matter how old you are.
---From “Reflections on Grandmother and Love”
“There’s no way I would think of it as a nuisance.
“You are a valued customer of our store.”
It was a story that would normally be laughed at.
I'm not a big spender, I'm just a convenience store customer, but that's too much to say.
But somehow, those words became a ray of bright light and reached deep into Daro's heart.
“You are a valued guest.”
At that moment, tears started to flow.
Why on earth all of a sudden?
I wiped away my tears in a hurry.
Shiva pretended not to notice and returned to the store, saying, "Is it uncomfortable to rest with me here? I'll come back later to see if you're okay."
Daro cried in the empty dining corner.
I was happy that I was precious to someone.
Even if it was the first greeting from a convenience store clerk, it didn't matter.
My existence, which seemed to be buried and disappearing in this wide world, was acknowledged.
I felt as if I had been saved.
---From "The Melancholy of Hirose Taro"
I can't believe I'm confronting the issues I've kept in my heart for years, the grievances I've ignored.
Could a change of heart happen so easily?
But maybe it was originally like this.
Someone's warm gaze, a small thoughtful word, these are the things that push me to take a new step.
With that gentle power, people change.
Suddenly I looked up at the sky.
The blue sky is high and white birds fly elegantly.
---From "The Melancholy of Hirose Taro"
As Kurihara, who was speaking with an affectionate expression, looked unusually dazzling, Kurihara quietly placed his hand on Mizuki's fist.
Compared to Mizuki, his tiny hands are holding her hand tightly.
“If Murai regrets tormenting his friends now, let’s regret it together.
I'll tell you not to do that again.
“Wouldn’t that work?”
Now this child is trying to accept Mizuki.
Mizuki couldn't tell if this was a happy thing or a foolish thing.
It was the first time I heard a story like this.
Is it really possible for someone else to so easily accept the ugly mistake that he himself has only just now admitted? Is such a miracle really possible?
“You don’t know much about me.
Don't say it so easily.
“Someday you’ll get sick of me.”
“The word ‘tired’ is used by people who think they know the other person well.”
Gurihara answered coolly.
Mr. Shohei told me.
People who think they know everything without really grasping the essence, and people who are delusional and look at others with such words.
What the heck, this is the kind of person he is.
People who have watched that person closely and know him well don't say things like that.
I said that you don't judge a person's actions based on words like that.
i think so too.
---From "The Queen's Fall"
“…I have come to know the power of righteousness and the arrogance that comes with wielding it.
“More than anything, when I was thinking about who to give the plastic bottle filled with affection to, the first person that came to mind was the child of that house.”
Two plastic bottles given by Grandpa Red.
The affection that was asked to be passed on to someone else.
Grandpa Red told me to give those two bottles to Shima, but now he doesn't have to use them on Shima anymore.
Then, when I thought about who I should give it to, I remembered the child my father used to call 'Tatsuki'.
It is not known whether this can be the affection of two bottles.
Maybe it's an arrogant thought.
But I wanted to take action.
I wanted to hand it over.
Two desserts placed between Mizuki and Sumie.
A mother penguin and her baby penguin were leaning on each other in a seemingly harmonious manner on the soda-colored sea.
---From "The Queen's Fall"
Publisher's Review
“It’s a good thing to like someone.
“That’s really good.”
Tenderness people who save each other with love
I, Oishi Waka, couldn't forget the vivid memories of the Mojiko Tenderness convenience store I visited three months ago and missed it.
My car, Pipienne, broke down, so I got a ride from my childhood friend Nam Sachin to find Moji Port.
So I shouted as I faced the Shiva store manager again.
“My name is Oishi Waka! Please tell me your name!” There is no room for embarrassment or hesitation.
The distance between him and me is too far.
We must push through it once and for all.
He closed his eyes quietly, then opened them again and answered in a very sweet voice.
“My name is Shiba.” “Shiba Mitsuhiko.”
“I am the manager of this store.” (p. 16) Oishi Waka, who eventually cannot hide her excitement and ends up spilling her nose, is an unknown person who appeared as ‘I’ in the prologue of Volume 1.
In the prologue of Volume 2, which follows Volume 1, Oishi Waka opens the door to the Tenderness convenience store while bleeding from her nose, and at the same time, the season of love and the story of Volume 2 begin.
Even in Volume 2, which started with such an interesting production, the charm of Manager Shiba and the bustling convenience store due to that charm remain unchanged.
The first episode explores the bond between Mitsue, the new member of Manager Shiba's unusual fan club, and her granddaughter. The next story explores the story of Hirose Taro, a dependable part-timer at the Tenderness convenience store. The final episode explores the winds of change that a middle school girl from Volume 1 experiences when she enters high school.
And in the process, the big and small attention and loving hands of the Tenderness convenience store manager Shiba, the man who writes anything, and the old man Red, the tycoon of Moji Port, appear in the right places to comfort the characters and help them grow.
Additionally, 『Convenience Store Where You Can Hear the Sea 2』 offers a more immersive experience than the previous installment, thanks to the author's more detailed portrayal of the individual characters' psychology and the relationships between them.
As we go back and forth between cool and warm feelings, crying and laughing, we too will soon become regular customers of Tenderness Convenience Store and wait for the next story to unfold there.
“There is no such thing as a great person.
“Everyone just works hard.”
Where the extraordinary stories of ordinary people unfold
In "Convenience Store Where You Can Hear the Sea 2," the charm of Moji Port, where the Tenderness Convenience Store is located, is further highlighted, and the characters' personalities are also much more distinct.
The episode "Thoughts on Grandmother and Love" features Shino Nagata, a first-year high school student who recently broke up with her boyfriend of the same age.
Before Shino can even recover from the shock of her heartbreak, her grandmother Mitsue, who has recently started living with her, appears with her hair dyed pink like cotton candy and acts strangely friendly towards her.
One day, as days continued to pass by with her authoritarian father and her mother feeling frustrated and unable to speak, Shino heads to Moji Port instead of school, where she accidentally meets Mitsue, who has fluffy cotton candy hair, and learns the reason why her grandmother suddenly changed.
As he has a serious conversation with his grandmother about 'love', he comes to see her unconditional affection and love for Shino.
He also finds comfort in Azusa Higaki, a classmate he wasn't very close with, whom he meets at the Tenderness convenience store.
In the episode "The Melancholy of Hirose Taro," the story of Hirose Taro, a part-time worker at a Tenderness convenience store, unfolds.
Taro was an active baseball player until high school.
After entering college and quitting baseball, he gets dumped by his girlfriend, who he had been dating well, because she no longer sparkles.
As Taro struggles with self-distrust and self-loathing, the man who writes 'Anything Man' approaches him and asks him to eat with him. Juru, who he often runs into while working at the convenience store, also expresses one-sided affection for Taro, but Taro is not interested.
His ex-girlfriend keeps changing lovers while hovering around Daro, and Daro is tormented by the feeling of being pathetic every time this happens.
While having dinner with Ssuk, Shiba, and Juru, he remembers the moment when he got a chance that was nothing short of salvation at the Tenderness convenience store, and begins to positively accept his current state.
The final episode is about Mizuki Murai, a middle school girl who led the class's opinion and ostracized Nayuta in Volume 1, after she becomes a high school student.
At that time, all of the friends she used to hang out with were scattered to different schools, and Mizuki joined a group of friends she didn't really get along with, and while quietly living her daily life, she ended up being teased by the group, and was even abandoned by her middle school friends.
The person who reached out to Mizuki, who was hurt and struggling, was Shima Kurihara, who was treated as an oddball in class.
The story of Shima Kurihara's friendship unfolding in an unexpected direction, and the touching story of her growth as she reflects on her past and understands the wounds of others is contained in "The Fall of the Queen."
“The more you share consideration and kindness with others, the more precious they become.”
A story that makes you and me, all of us, infinitely kind
The values that the author wants to emphasize most in ‘Convenience Store Where You Can Hear the Sea 2’ are ‘love’ and ‘consideration.’
The feeling of love that comes unexpectedly, regardless of age, gender, or situation, is like magic that makes you discover a different side of yourself.
Most of the customers who meet Manager Shiba at the Tenderness convenience store are surprised by their new selves the moment they fall in love.
Just like Grandma Mitsue, who dyes her hair pink and paints her nails with pretty colors out of the ordinary while experiencing an unfamiliar yet happy feeling, or Juru, who shows unconditional affection to Hirose Taro, the heart of someone who loves someone shines brightly.
The author gradually shows how much change this feeling of love can bring to both the person involved and the other person through changes in situations and characters.
Another message the author emphasizes in this work is that kindness given to someone is passed on to another person with even greater kindness.
As a Japanese reader review says, "Reading 'The Convenience Store Where You Can Hear the Sea' makes you infinitely kinder," the chain reaction of kindness becomes the driving force behind creating a better self and the people around me.
This is precisely why we read Machida Sonoko's work: to reflect on the importance of love and kindness, which we often forget, and through this encounter our own will to change.
“That’s really good.”
Tenderness people who save each other with love
I, Oishi Waka, couldn't forget the vivid memories of the Mojiko Tenderness convenience store I visited three months ago and missed it.
My car, Pipienne, broke down, so I got a ride from my childhood friend Nam Sachin to find Moji Port.
So I shouted as I faced the Shiva store manager again.
“My name is Oishi Waka! Please tell me your name!” There is no room for embarrassment or hesitation.
The distance between him and me is too far.
We must push through it once and for all.
He closed his eyes quietly, then opened them again and answered in a very sweet voice.
“My name is Shiba.” “Shiba Mitsuhiko.”
“I am the manager of this store.” (p. 16) Oishi Waka, who eventually cannot hide her excitement and ends up spilling her nose, is an unknown person who appeared as ‘I’ in the prologue of Volume 1.
In the prologue of Volume 2, which follows Volume 1, Oishi Waka opens the door to the Tenderness convenience store while bleeding from her nose, and at the same time, the season of love and the story of Volume 2 begin.
Even in Volume 2, which started with such an interesting production, the charm of Manager Shiba and the bustling convenience store due to that charm remain unchanged.
The first episode explores the bond between Mitsue, the new member of Manager Shiba's unusual fan club, and her granddaughter. The next story explores the story of Hirose Taro, a dependable part-timer at the Tenderness convenience store. The final episode explores the winds of change that a middle school girl from Volume 1 experiences when she enters high school.
And in the process, the big and small attention and loving hands of the Tenderness convenience store manager Shiba, the man who writes anything, and the old man Red, the tycoon of Moji Port, appear in the right places to comfort the characters and help them grow.
Additionally, 『Convenience Store Where You Can Hear the Sea 2』 offers a more immersive experience than the previous installment, thanks to the author's more detailed portrayal of the individual characters' psychology and the relationships between them.
As we go back and forth between cool and warm feelings, crying and laughing, we too will soon become regular customers of Tenderness Convenience Store and wait for the next story to unfold there.
“There is no such thing as a great person.
“Everyone just works hard.”
Where the extraordinary stories of ordinary people unfold
In "Convenience Store Where You Can Hear the Sea 2," the charm of Moji Port, where the Tenderness Convenience Store is located, is further highlighted, and the characters' personalities are also much more distinct.
The episode "Thoughts on Grandmother and Love" features Shino Nagata, a first-year high school student who recently broke up with her boyfriend of the same age.
Before Shino can even recover from the shock of her heartbreak, her grandmother Mitsue, who has recently started living with her, appears with her hair dyed pink like cotton candy and acts strangely friendly towards her.
One day, as days continued to pass by with her authoritarian father and her mother feeling frustrated and unable to speak, Shino heads to Moji Port instead of school, where she accidentally meets Mitsue, who has fluffy cotton candy hair, and learns the reason why her grandmother suddenly changed.
As he has a serious conversation with his grandmother about 'love', he comes to see her unconditional affection and love for Shino.
He also finds comfort in Azusa Higaki, a classmate he wasn't very close with, whom he meets at the Tenderness convenience store.
In the episode "The Melancholy of Hirose Taro," the story of Hirose Taro, a part-time worker at a Tenderness convenience store, unfolds.
Taro was an active baseball player until high school.
After entering college and quitting baseball, he gets dumped by his girlfriend, who he had been dating well, because she no longer sparkles.
As Taro struggles with self-distrust and self-loathing, the man who writes 'Anything Man' approaches him and asks him to eat with him. Juru, who he often runs into while working at the convenience store, also expresses one-sided affection for Taro, but Taro is not interested.
His ex-girlfriend keeps changing lovers while hovering around Daro, and Daro is tormented by the feeling of being pathetic every time this happens.
While having dinner with Ssuk, Shiba, and Juru, he remembers the moment when he got a chance that was nothing short of salvation at the Tenderness convenience store, and begins to positively accept his current state.
The final episode is about Mizuki Murai, a middle school girl who led the class's opinion and ostracized Nayuta in Volume 1, after she becomes a high school student.
At that time, all of the friends she used to hang out with were scattered to different schools, and Mizuki joined a group of friends she didn't really get along with, and while quietly living her daily life, she ended up being teased by the group, and was even abandoned by her middle school friends.
The person who reached out to Mizuki, who was hurt and struggling, was Shima Kurihara, who was treated as an oddball in class.
The story of Shima Kurihara's friendship unfolding in an unexpected direction, and the touching story of her growth as she reflects on her past and understands the wounds of others is contained in "The Fall of the Queen."
“The more you share consideration and kindness with others, the more precious they become.”
A story that makes you and me, all of us, infinitely kind
The values that the author wants to emphasize most in ‘Convenience Store Where You Can Hear the Sea 2’ are ‘love’ and ‘consideration.’
The feeling of love that comes unexpectedly, regardless of age, gender, or situation, is like magic that makes you discover a different side of yourself.
Most of the customers who meet Manager Shiba at the Tenderness convenience store are surprised by their new selves the moment they fall in love.
Just like Grandma Mitsue, who dyes her hair pink and paints her nails with pretty colors out of the ordinary while experiencing an unfamiliar yet happy feeling, or Juru, who shows unconditional affection to Hirose Taro, the heart of someone who loves someone shines brightly.
The author gradually shows how much change this feeling of love can bring to both the person involved and the other person through changes in situations and characters.
Another message the author emphasizes in this work is that kindness given to someone is passed on to another person with even greater kindness.
As a Japanese reader review says, "Reading 'The Convenience Store Where You Can Hear the Sea' makes you infinitely kinder," the chain reaction of kindness becomes the driving force behind creating a better self and the people around me.
This is precisely why we read Machida Sonoko's work: to reflect on the importance of love and kindness, which we often forget, and through this encounter our own will to change.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: July 27, 2023
- Page count, weight, size: 228 pages | 135*200*20mm
- ISBN13: 9791192579887
- ISBN10: 1192579887
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