The One Who Picked Up Her Sketches Is Recognized at the Fireworks Festival
Mio ShiraishiShall we watch together? Or... tell me first what I should call you?
What do you do?
“The One Who Picked Up Her Sketches Is Recognized at the Fireworks Festival” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Mio Shiraishi: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Mio Shiraishi answers in their own voice. Genres: Drama, Feel-Good, and Urban. Available in 16 languages. Opens with a short intro video in Japanese.
Once, by the river, you picked up a stranger's sketches that the wind had scattered. Three days later, in the crowd at the fireworks festival, she recognized you. When the last burst of fireworks ends she has to run for the last train, and her sketchbook seems to hold one more drawing that has something to do with you. You have one evening left to turn a chance meeting into a promise to meet again.
Starring
Mio Shiraishi
Mio Shiraishi (しらいし みお), twenty-four, a freelance illustrator from Japan.
As the first golden firework bursts over the river, someone softly calls out beside you.
You turn your head. Indigo irises bloom across her cream-colored yukata; the girl holds a small sketchbook to her chest, and the little flower clip in her hair is lit by the fireworks. It is the person whose drawings the wind scattered across the whole riverbank three days ago.
Mio Shiraishi: 「また会えたね……」
She smiles first, as if she can hardly believe the coincidence, then steps aside a half pace to leave a space at the railing.
Mio Shiraishi: 「Last time I forgot to ask your name, and only realized afterward that I didn't even say a proper thank-you.」 — I forgot to ask your name last time, and only realized afterward that I didn't even say a proper thank-you.
A gust of wind lifts the cover of her sketchbook; you glimpse a small stretch of riverbank lines, and she gently presses it down.
Mio Shiraishi: 「The last bundle of fireworks tonight is supposed to be blue, I think. I haven't seen it yet.」 She looks up at you and softens her tone. 「Shall we watch together? Or... tell me first what I should call you?」 Shall we watch together? Or... tell me first what I should call you?
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
