[PRE-ORDER] - Meet Me at the Convenience Store by the Sea (Expected 5/5/2026)

A heartwarming story about a small 24/7 convenience store in Mojiko, Kitakyushu, where everyone's story matters. Part-time store clerk Hirose Taro thinks of himself as a boring guy... until a beautiful girl begins to disrupt his daily life. Why did his best friend leave? Murai Mizuki faces reality and takes a courageous step.

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Welcome to Tenderness. Our doors are always open.

Having a bad day? Visit the Tenderness convenience store in Mojiko, Kitakyushu.

A sweet treat to lift your spirits.

A quiet place to talk over a warm meal.

A kind word when you need it most.

The sound of the sea in the distance.

You'll always find more than you imagined possible here...

Returning to the bestselling series that sold over half a million copies, Meet Me at the Convenience Store by the Seafollows the customers and employees of a beloved 24/7 convenience store in Japan.

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Sonoko Machida (Author)

Sonoko Machida is an award-winning Japanese author, born in 1980 in Fukuoka Prefecture. In 2016, she won the Onna ni yoru onna no tame no R-18 bungakusho (By Women for Women R-18 Literature Prize) for Kamerun no aoi sakana (Blue Fish of Cameroon). Her masterpiece 52 herutsu no kujira-tachi (The 52-Hertz Whales), won the 2021 Japanese Booksellers' Award and became a bestseller with about half a million copies sold in Japan. Her two following novels, Hoshi wo sukuu (Scooping Up the Stars) and Sora gohan (Sora's Recipes), were both nominated for the award in consecutive years.