少年たちのいた夏

Synopsis

This is the third volume of Hojo Tsukasa's one-shot collections. All of the stories in this volume are set during WWII. - **Aozora no Hate - Shounentachi no Senjo -:** Two brothers are pilots fighting for the Japanese during WWII. The older is an experienced ace; the younger has just finished his training. But it is the younger one who is assigned to a mission that will change his life. - **Shounentachi no Ita Natsu ~Melody of Jenny~:** A group of kids in an encampment, set up by the Japanese government during WWII to house and school children, escape in hopes of returning to their families in Tokyo. Along the way, they meet an American who has been living in Japan for the past ten years and agree to travel together, but... - **American Dream:** In 1935 in San Francisco, the San Francisco Stars hosted a series of baseball exhibition games with a Japanese baseball team. Amid the increasingly racially tense atmosphere of that time period, ace pitcher Murakawa meets Johnny, an American scout, and Yuu, a Japanese girl living in the States. Amazed by his skills, Johnny asks Murakawa if he wants to pursue the American dream...