Izumi shows up at Narita airport in leggings and a faded sweatshirt and is greeted by Akio Kobayashi, a gorgeous Imperial Guard with a stick up his backside. She’s the illegitimate daughter of the Crown Prince of Japan and he wants her to visit him at his residence, Tōgū Palace, in Tokyo. Her Imperial Highness Princess Izumi, they call her. A chance glance at a book reveals a name, expert Googling later there is a contact, a letter is sent…and highly polished Japanese officials shows up in her kitchen with its cracked yellow linoleum floor. Naturally, she has wondered if he even knows she was born would he accept her if he knew she existed does he care - these are questions that circle her mind obsessively. As a single child of a single parent, she has often felt lonely, but her questions about her father have gotten instantly shut down. A minor minority, she makes friends with other minority girls, and together, they form an unshakeable bond against everything life throws at them. This is the story of Izumi Tanaka becoming…Ī senior at Mount Shasta High School, Izumi often feels like an outsider in the place of her birth.
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