Banri's amnesia isn't the plot; it's the permission slip. He gets to be someone new in Tokyo, and the show actually follows what that costs, the moment you stop running from your past, it catches up. Kouko barrels into his life demanding he choose between the person he's becoming and the person he was, and the show refuses to make that a clean answer. By the end, you're not watching a love triangle resolve. You're watching two people negotiate whether love can survive the person you become when nobody's looking.
Banri Tada has lost every memory of his past after a terrible accident, a fall from a bridge shortly after high school graduation. He sets out to begin again as a new student at a private law school in Tokyo, where he quickly hits it off with Mitsuo Yanagisawa, a fellow freshman who is just as lost on the first day. Then Kouko Kaga makes a dramatic entrance. She is beautiful, stylish and seemingly perfect, and she is Mitsuo's childhood friend, who followed him to the same college. Her arrival marks the start of a memorable year in which Banri makes friends, falls in love, makes mistakes and grows, all while slowly learning who he used to be. Expect a college romance with a strong dramatic streak.
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