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Yoshie’s mother is also healed by her immersion in hipster paradise: It is their shared consumption of trendy food and chic clothes and music that brings them together, and Shimokitazawa is the perfect backdrop for this featherlight drama of consumerism. Once they start seeing each other, Yoshie and Shintani bond in the same way that Yoshie and her mother do, namely, by visiting cool restaurants and bars and eating tasty and unusual dishes.

As he ate, he looked out the window peacefully. Shintani-kun still ate beautifully, and the pot-au-feu disappeared into his mouth with dreamy alacrity. He is gentle, kind, and attractive in a nonthreatening way: Shintani is a typical Yoshimoto male love interest who could have walked straight out of the pages of a shōjo manga magazine. He also tells Yoshie that he’s falling in love with her. Shintani takes this opportunity to tell Yoshie that there was something very strange about the woman her father ran off with. The man’s name is Shintani, and he happens to own a club where Imoto’s band often played. One day, Yoshie randomly runs into a frequent diner at her bistro. The official story is that he committed suicide with a much younger woman, but neither Yoshie nor her mother has any idea why an otherwise grounded and stable man would have consented to such an extreme act of desperation.

The only shadow on their bright days is the death of Yoshie’s father Imoto, who played keyboard in a rock band. Yoshie is serious about her work in the Les Liens bistro, and her mother is serious about pulling herself out of the mire of her former role as a housewife, but they have no money worries and are quite comfortable together. Yoshie and her mother float through their days in Shimokitazawa, eating delicious food, buying nice things, and gradually getting to know their neighbors.

Moshi Moshi is like a glossy lifestyle magazine in the form of a novel. Yoshie had been looking forward to leaving the nest and striking out on her own, but her mother claims that her father’s ghost has begun to haunt their old apartment, so what can she do? Everything is going reasonably well for her until her mother suddenly decides to move in with her.

Publication Year: 2016 (America) 2010 (Japan)Ī year after her father dies in a suicide pact, twenty-something Mitsuharu Yoshie moves to the hipster neighborhood of Shimokitazawa, where she works part-time at a small bistro. Japanese Title: もしもし下北沢 ( Moshi moshi Shimokitazawa)