How to Hold Someone in your Heart

The follow-up to Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon arrives seven years on, with Ayumi still working as a go-between for the living and the dead. In Tokyo, he balances a full-time job as a toy designer with the mysterious gift passed down from his grandmother.

Under a full moon, and by strict rules, Ayumi reunites souls with those left behind. But after years of guiding others towards closure, he starts to question what the role has cost him, and whether peace for himself is ever within reach.

How to Hold Someone in Your Heart follows five moving encounters, from a rising film star seeking his absent father to an amateur historian hoping to meet a 16th-century warlord, and a former cook still refusing to let go of love. Mizuki Tsujimura delivers something luminous, magical and deeply heartwarming.