A mermaid dies for love, wakes up in modern Japan, and still can't get a text back.
The story follows a mermaid who makes a forbidden wish to be loved by a human. Following her death, she is reborn 200 years later into modern-day Japan in Lake Biwa, where she learns to adjust in a human world.
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200 years of longing compressed into quiet, devastating glances.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lake Biwa is Japan's largest freshwater lake and appears in folklore as a site of transformation and divine feminine power, making Lara's rebirth there symbolically loaded.
The title's 'Goodbye' is both farewell to her mermaid existence and refusal to let go of her original wish—she's saying goodbye to herself twice.
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