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The serial of Carrot Orange Sun will be suspended for the personal reason of the writer.
Thank you for your readership and support!
And thank Amanda, the wonderful painter, for your excellent illustration to the novel!
Further information about restarting the novel will be announced later.

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Oct. 2009

musicJAPANplus presents an original story for the first time!! Don't miss the installments of CARROT ORANGE SUN, updated on the 30th of each month.

This is a story about a girl named沙紀(SAKI) who moved from Hakodate, Hokkaido to Tokyo, the center of all Japan, to realize her dream to be a singer. Her friends 琴美(KOTOMI), 洋輔(YOSUKE) and桃子(MOMOKO) remained in Hakodate,and feelings of ambivalence, conflict and struggle ensue. What will happen to them in the future?

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It's been 5 years since Saki, a 25-year-old girl, left Hakodate, Hokkaido in northern Japan, to pursue her dream of becoming a singer.Struggling with insecurities, Saki has been singing these past 5 years but has not yet been able to realize her dream, and now begins to question herself. Her dream hasn't come true yet, and she has to keep singing each night in busy Shibuya, just to keep herself from disappearing into the crowd. Will the passage of time change what she's dreaming of?
Saki's childhood friends, 洋輔 (YOSUKE)(25) and 桃子(MOMOKO)(22), and her sister琴美(KOTOMI)(23), decided to stay in the countryside in Hakodate.
The four of them get lost and struggle on their paths, and always support each other. This is a story about young people who are walking toward their futures, trying to achieve secret dreams.