The Long Love Letter

The Long Love Letter

Release Date:  1/9/2002
Country of Release:  Japan
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Medium:  Video
Genre:  ROM SF
Release Message:  A time rift earthquake sends Yuka (Takako Tokiwa), a flower shop worker and Akio, a mathematics teacher to the future.
Description:  Time rift earthquake to the future based on the manga Hyouryuu Kyoushitsu (literally the Drifting Classroom) by Umezu Kazuo One day, Yuka Misaki, a daughter of a flower shop owner meets Akio Asami, a college student. They are both attracted to each other, but they have no way to get in touch with each other at that time. One year later, Yuka begins a job at her father's flower shop and Akio becomes a mathematics teacher at Motokura High School. One day in November, Yuka goes to the Motokura High School to collect money for the flowers and meets Akio again. However, they can't get along well. In January, Yuka gets a call from Ryuta Fujisawa and they promise to meet that afternoon. In the morning, Yuka goes to the school again to collect money that she couldn't collect before. Akio finds Yuka in the playground and calls out to her. At that moment, a large earthquake occurs. By the time it stops, their school is surrounded by dry and sandy desert. Not only Yuka and Akio, but other students including Tadashi Otomo, Shou Takamatsu, Fumiya Ikegaki are in the school that day. The students begin to panic, but Yuka and Akio try to calm them. At first, the students are pessimistic because there is not enough food and water. However, they begin to accept what happened to them. Many strange things happen in the desert. They see a total eclipse of the sun that they can't see in 2002. They see a train which should not exist in 2002. From those two things, they notice that they are in the future. Theme song: Loveland Island by Yamashita Tatsuro