They can't leave the chair they're sat in, so they can only meet people who have visited the café. Nothing they do will change their present day. And they must leave before their coffee gets cold.
This time around, they're in a different café with the same type of ghost and time travel. I'm not really sure why they switched the location to Tokyo because the central cast are the same, watching over the premises for the owner while she's away, and every story beat is pretty much exactly as per the eight stories we've seen in the previous volumes.
In the last volume, we discovered that travel is possible in both directions and the one thing that happens differently in this one is that, in at least one of the stories, there is a visitor from the past as well as the new supporting cast travelling backwards.
All the morals to the stories and life lessons learned seem to be much of a muchness.
It's all very nice and genteel and the translation is pleasant on the brain. Just, three volumes in, it's feeling a little bit samey. That won't stop me reading volume 4 when I'm in the mood for something totally unchallenging next year.
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