Published for the first time in English, Inio Asano's A Girl on the Shore is a quiet, emotional coming of age story. Koume and Keisuke, two middle school kids living in a small coastal Japanese town, enter a casual physical relationship that develops into something that changes how they view themselves and the world around them. The plot is minimal; what truly drives the story is the characters and their relationships, both physical and psychological. The characters teeter on the edge of adolescence, and Asano explores their feelings with a depth and understanding that is rare and wonderful to see in depictions of middle schoolers in fiction. While the manga is a relatively short read, you'll find yourself wanting to go back and read it over and over again.