Ikoku Nikki Lyrics
Journal with Witch Lyrics
Japanese Title: 違国日記
English Title: Journal with Witch
Original Release Date:
- January 4th, 2026
Makio Takashiro, a shy, socially awkward novelist, ends up taking in his niece Asa Tagumi, who lost her parents in a sudden accident, after meeting her at his sister and brother-in-law’s funeral.
This unexpected start to living together completely upends Makio’s once-quiet daily life. Unused to sharing his space with others, he feels anxious about living with Asa, who is only fifteen.
Meanwhile, Asa—having lost her parents and her sense of belonging—finds herself facing loneliness for the first time. As she does, she encounters Makio’s way of living: so different from her mother’s, and strangely “un-adult-like.”
Makio, who struggles with human relationships and prefers solitude, and Asa, who is open-hearted and straightforward.
With personalities and values that couldn’t be more different, the two begin an awkward, tentative life together, full of uncertainty but also quiet understanding.
A story of two people living with loneliness, and a tentative, age-gap cohabitation that begins through feeling their way forward together.
