We Were There

Starting her first year of high school with hopes of making plenty of friends, Nanami Takahashi meets the quiet Yuri Yamamoto and soon hears about a well-known classmate, Motoharu Yano. Yuri wants nothing to do with him due to his past relationship with her older sister, Nana, and Nanami is initially put off by his attitude as well. Still, as Nanami and Yano spend more time together, her impressions shift into genuine affection, and the two decide to date.

Their relationship, however, is complicated by what came before. Yano struggles to fully open up after losing Nana in a car accident the previous year—an event made even harder to face because she died while she was with one of her ex-boyfriends. With Nana’s memory lingering between them, Nanami and Yano try to hold on through misunderstandings and heartbreak, testing what their feelings can endure.