You come back to your hometown expecting nostalgia. Instead you find your best friend broken, and the entire first half is just you trying to understand what happened to her. The show commits completely to that one relationship instead of scattering itself across a harem, which means every conversation matters. By the time the truth comes out, you've already watched this girl rebuild herself piece by piece, and that's what actually stays with you.

Sana Hidaka left the small town of Sakuranomori for Tokyo because of his parents' business plans. Five years later, now a 16-year-old high school student, he comes back hoping to pick up his old life. The town looks much the same, but the friends he left behind do not. The biggest change is in Nanaka Yatsushiro, his childhood friend, once cheerful and sweet and now withdrawn and gloomy, though she still wears the bracelet he gave her before he left. His other old friends have secrets and burdens of their own that strain the bonds they once shared. A drama and romance about a homecoming that is harder than expected.