Miku joins Tadashi with her own plate of snacks. Tiny bowls of anmitsu (agar jelly with fresh-cut fruits), with little scoops of vegan green tea ice cream were her offering for the evening.

"This came out last year for me, and I never managed to see it," she said as she sat down with one of the small bowls and sits on the floor beside his beanbag chair. It wasn't that she disliked them, but the floor was fine enough for her, and she didn't want to risk getting stuck... in the chair.

Life was difficult when one had short legs.