Nobody talks about this one. Two brothers swap lives, one's a movie star faking it through a football film, the other's a musician barely pretending to be a student, and the whole thing collapses under the weight of what they're actually running from. The 1989 OVA format means it moves at fever-pitch, no filler, just two people discovering that identity isn't something you can hand off to someone else and expect it to stick. It's small and strange and built for people who've ever felt like they were playing a role instead of living a life. By the end, you understand why some bonds can't survive the truth.
Annis Marfie, an art student in New York with a boyish look, learns that Shiver, a strikingly beautiful classmate who works as a semi-pro model, is not one person at all. Shiver is really twin brothers, Shiver and Cipher, who pass themselves off to everyone as a single young man. One twin is a film star shooting a football movie, while the other is a musician who sometimes shows up at school in his brother's place. Curious about why the pair would deceive the world like this, Annis decides to get close to them. Adapted from a shoujo manga by Narita Minako, this single-episode 1989 OVA is a drama with a musical side, and its dialogue is entirely in English to suit the New York setting.