While cleaning out Mei’s grandmother’s attic to escape the midday heat, they found a rusted biscuit tin. Inside wasn't gold, but a collection of "summer scraps" from twenty years prior: a faded map of the local hills, a single blue marble, and a letter written by Mei’s mother to her future self.
There is a tradition in Japan during Obon —the belief that the spirits of ancestors return home. But there are other ghosts we search for in the summer: the ghosts of our younger selves. Natsu no Sagashimono -What We Found That Summer
There is a concept in Japanese aesthetics called Mono no Aware —a wistful awareness of the impermanence of things. Natsu no Sagashimono captures this perfectly. The characters find that the "thing" they were looking for was the memory they were creating in real-time. They found a moment of perfect synchronization with another human being. While cleaning out Mei’s grandmother’s attic to escape
, a shy and effeminate young man who travels to the countryside to visit his Aunt Misaki But there are other ghosts we search for
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Natsu no Sagashimono: What We Found That Summer – A Nostalgic Countryside Escape Summer has a way of slowing everything down, and Natsu no Sagashimono ~What We Found That Summer~