Whisper of the Heart

9/17/2026

"Shizuku" is a serial reader. She has a voracious appetite for books and can quite literally start at one end of the public library shelf and work her way along to the other. She's also studious and reasonably academic, with aspirations to go onto high school at the end of this semester - much to the joy of her parents and her slightly over-bearing sister "Shiro". Then she meets a cat! A mischievous and teasing beastie that seems to have no home but that wanders the streets being suitably well fed by all she meets. Her pursuit of the cat takes her to an old antiques shop where she meets the elderly man who runs the place, and who regales her with a tale of a prince trapped in an unrequitable love scenario with a princess whose form changes when the sun sets. It turns out that the grandson