The Garden of Words is a highly acclaimed one-shot manga book from 2013 that was made into a movie the year it came out. The basic story is of a 15-year-old boy and a 27-year-old woman who become friends in Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden in Tokyo. They meet one day when both are playing hookey, him from school to draw pictures of women's shoes, and her from work to drink beer and eat chocolate. They initially speak very little, but when she parts with a poem fragment, he becomes obsessed, and they meet every morning it rains. Later on, he finds out that she is a teacher at his school.
I love short manga like this, especially romance. While Nisekoi has gone on for nearly 30 volumes and A Silent Voice for seven, The Garden of Words sits by itself as a simple work of 200 pages. There's something to be said about these books, not traditional romance but more "slice of life," to use an overused term. I absolutely loved it.
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