🇯🇵 Japanese Title:
隠された星の名前
Kakusareta Hoshi no Namae
The Hidden Star’s Name
🎯 Theme:
After the meteor shower, Nao can’t stop thinking about Yoru no Shizuku.
She visits the school’s astronomy room to cross-check star charts again—and discovers something strange:
A tiny handwritten margin note on a decades-old chart:
“Unconfirmed anomaly – visible winter 2015, faded after 3 nights.”
The handwriting is unfamiliar… until she matches it to an old notebook left behind in the observatory library.
The notebook belongs to Aika.
It includes sketches of the sky, stargazing notes—and one entry titled:
「夜のしずく？」(“Yoru no Shizuku?”)
Nao is stunned.
This “star” she named… Aika saw it too, years ago.
They both gave it the same name, unknowingly.
When she tells Hana, the older girl’s hands tremble.
“She used to say some stars visit only once. Like memories.”
Now, Nao begins to wonder:
Was this light a star, a comet—or something stranger?
She writes in her diary:
“If memories can shine… maybe that’s what she left behind.”
📍 Setting:
- Dusty astronomy records room
- School observatory filled with old charts
- Hana and Nao looking over Aika’s journal
- Sky at twilight: no sign of the mysterious light… for now
📚 Vocabulary
| Japanese | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 未確認 | みかくにん | unconfirmed |
| 異常 | いじょう | anomaly, irregularity |
| 過去 | かこ | the past |
| 手がかり | てがかり | clue |
| 奇跡 | きせき | miracle |
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🗣️ Useful Phrases
| Japanese | Meaning |
|---|---|
| この星、彼女も見てたの…？ | She saw this star too…? |
| 同じ名前をつけるなんて、偶然じゃない気がする。 | Giving it the same name… that can’t be coincidence. |
| 過去からの返事かもしれない。 | It might be a reply from the past. |
| 記憶って、空に残るものなんだね。 | Memories… they can stay in the sky. |
| もしかして、まだ何かが始まってるのかも。 | Maybe… something is still beginning. |
💡 Grammar Focus
| Grammar Point | Usage | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 〜たことがある (have done before) | この星を見たことがある人がいた。 | Someone had seen this star before. |
| 〜のように思える (seems like…) | 偶然のように思えない。 | It doesn’t feel like coincidence. |
| 〜ずに (without doing) | 何も言わずに記録だけ残していた。 | She left only the record without saying anything. |
🎥 Dialogue
[Scene: Nao shows Hana Aika’s old notebook.]
Nao (shaken):
「“夜のしずく”…この名前、前にもあったの。」
(“Yoru no Shizuku”… this name—she used it too.)
Hana (quietly):
「やっぱり…空って、ちゃんと繋がってるんだね。」
(So it’s true… the sky really does connect us.)
🧭 Final Note:
In the back of Aika’s notebook:
「この光は、記憶か夢か、それとも奇跡か。」
(Is this light a memory, a dream… or a miracle?)
🌠 The stars are beginning to speak louder.