Something Like Summer traces the tumultuous relationship of Ben and Tim, secret high school sweethearts who grow over the years into both adulthood enemies and complicated friends.
Bound by shared loneliness, Shinya and his classmate Yuka grow close while working on their school newspaper. But after a sudden incident, Yuka vanishes without a trace, leaving Shinya clinging to an unfulfilled promise. Thirty years later, long-buried truths about Yuka’s past finally surface, forcing Shinya to confront what was lost, and what remained unsaid.
Lola (16) is a lonely girl marked by a trauma that has followed her since childhood: the mysterious absence of her father. A talented swimmer with a vast collection of medals, Lola keeps a curious secret, she cannot swim the butterfly stroke. She has a strained relationship with her mother, and after one of their arguments she decides to spend her vacation alone in her uncle's town. There, the teenager's life changes radically she falls in love with Gabriel, makes new friends, and joins the town's struggling swim team. Now, every time Lola is in the water, these new emotions stir memories from her past. On the eve of an important championship, Lola finds herself facing fears and traumas she never expected, including the truth about her father's death.
Shiina Kyoko is a high school student in Choshi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. She organized an event to promote the Choshi Electric Railway Line. The event is a race between the Chosi train and high school student runners. Shiina Kyoko gets impatient as the last high school student runner has yet to be decided. Meanwhile, Mamoru Kumagami is enthusiastic about taking pictures of railroads and trains. He visits the city of Choshi and meets beautiful Kimie. They get closer. Preparation for the event is finished, but an unexpected accident happens.
In a village filled with clever and eccentric characters, the arrival of a man known as E.T. and his companion Kyin, who come to open a pharmacy, sets off a chain of bizarre and increasingly comic events. Strange toilet pits begin appearing around the home of Khin Maung San and Cartoon, leading the villagers into a humorous mystery involving schemes, misunderstandings and the unusual behaviour of the village's inhabitants.
Chihiro, a university student who lives a lonely life, undergoes a treatment to erase his memories in order to forget his unhappy past. However, when he awakens, his memories have not disappeared. Instead, he is left with memories of his first love with Toka, a childhood friend he has never even met. She is supposed to exist only within fabricated memories. Yet before long, Chihiro finds himself unable to get her out of his mind. But one day, Toka appears in the real world.