A mayfly falls in love with a girl who will outlive it by decades. The entire story lives in that gap, the certainty of loss, the refusal to look away from it anyway. This is not a story about romance that conquers time. It's about choosing to love something doomed, knowing exactly how the math works out, and doing it anyway.

A mayfly falls in love with a human girl in this short fantasy OVA, told as a fairy tale. Sumi Shimamoto narrates the single episode, which adapts a children's picture book by Mitsuru Nakamura, the artist also known as 326. The 2003 release sets a small creature's affection for a person at the center of its gentle, storybook premise.