Summer and Soda

Summertime at the Friday Bookshop, a charming bookstore in Japan where you'll find the perfect book, is busier than ever for its quirky employees as they revisit an old friend and make new ones who enter the cozy shop.

The warm and cheerful haze of summer is settling over the town of Nohara, and Friday Bookshop employee Fumiya is excited for what he hopes is a season of change. He’s quickly becoming a solid member of the bookshop team, but much of the history behind the shop’s owners—Makino, Yasu, and Sugawa, whose long friendship began in high school with their Friday Book Club—remains a mystery to him. So he’s shocked to learn that this tight-knit trio used to be a quartet, but the fourth founding member of the book club had passed years ago.

When a young girl shows up to the Friday Bookshop with the desire to revive the Friday Book Club at her school—the same school that the store owners attended—the trio finds itself confronted with the melancholy of their past. Amidst buried secrets, bonds in need of mending, and shared moments gathered around Sugawa’s culinary creations at the bookstore’s café, a luminous and comforting tale unfolds—one that celebrates love, the ties that bind us together, and the healing power of books.

With vibrant characters and threads of connections woven between the characters’ lives, their recommended books, and the shop’s customers, Summer and Soda will tug at your heartstrings in surprising ways while inspiring you to revel in the magic of reading.