Mannenyuki no Mieru Ie

Author: Hiroshi Motomiya

Run: 1979–1980

Chapters: 22

Genres: Drama, Slice of Life

A family drama set in a snowbound Hokkaido town in the late 1970s. Daichi, a brilliant ninth-grader with top exam scores, gives up on high school to support the large Yamakawa family as its eldest son after his father is hospitalized following a workplace accident — and the family's bonds are tested by one misfortune after another.