Mitsuaki Ogawa
Noriko is a hostess at a second-rate club in Ginza. She is the self-proclaimed number one, but the truth of this is dubious as far as her disastrous rejection is concerned. She throws her toy ring into a park fountain and says goodbye to the love that has ended... Drunk on outdated narcissism, her small eyes are caught by one businessman jumping into the fountain. On closer inspection, it was her childhood friend Tomozo.
Shizuku lives a simple life, dominated by her love for stories and writing. One day she notices that all the library books she has have been previously checked out by the same person: 'Seiji Amasawa'. Curious as to who he is, Shizuku meets a boy her age whom she finds infuriating, but discovers to her shock that he is her 'Prince of Books'. As she grows closer to him, she realises that he merely read all those books to bring himself closer to her. The boy Seiji aspires to be a violin maker in Italy, and it is his dreams that make Shizuku realise that she has no clear path for her life. Knowing that her strength lies in writing, she tests her talents by writing a story about Baron, a cat statuette belonging to Seiji's grandfather
