Graffiti on a museum wall breaks open two lives that were supposed to stay closed. Koichi chases a girl who stopped painting because something broke inside her, and watching him convince her that making art again is worth the risk feels like watching someone reach into a fire. The show knows that creativity isn't just a dream you have, it's a wound you either learn to bleed into or spend your life avoiding.
Halfway through high school, Koichi Asakura hopes to study design at an art school, but his plans are thrown off by a bold piece of graffiti splashed across a museum wall. The artist turns out to be Eren Yamagishi, a left-handed girl who set her gift aside following an incident in her past. Art brings the two together: Koichi works toward a design career while Eren picks up painting again. Fear, ambition and old scars stand in the way of both. Years later, Koichi is a hardworking designer at an advertising agency whose efforts go unrecognized. After losing his place on a project, he returns to the Yokohama Museum of Art, the spot where he first met Eren. She, meanwhile, has become known in New York as a gifted left-handed graffiti artist, and her own path brings its own struggles.
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