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A Perfect Day Switch Previously featured in E363, Coconut Island’s sliceof-life tale finally gets an English-language release. Set on the final day of the 20th century, it follows 11-year-old Chen Liang, who hopes to use an unexpected day off to give a belated Christmas card to a classmate upon whom he has a crush. Waylaid by circumstance, he finds the day looping over and over; each 24-hour period yields fresh information, new plot threads to follow – and steadily untangle – and items that, unlike the protagonist’s memory, persist between loops. With limited time slots in which to fulfil his needs (and those of friends and family), a prevailing theme is the futility of the pursuit of perfection. It’s repetitive by design but richly detailed, the specificities of location and period lending extra texture to this absorbing slow-burner.