This one sneaks up on you. You come in for a guy with crushing debt and a two-year death sentence, and you leave caring about tide charts and who brought snacks to the pier. Tsunehiro spends the early episodes wallowing so hard you want to shake him, and that's the point: the show makes you sit in his self-pity long enough that Hana yanking him out of the water and shoving a rod in his hands actually lands as rescue. The fishing isn't sports-anime spectacle, it's waiting, small talk with Takaaki and the others, the specific quiet of people who don't ask what's wrong with you. Twelve episodes, no sequel bait, the whole arc closed like it meant it. If Your Lie in April got you, this gets you too, and almost nobody watched it.

Tsunehiro Sasaki is a college dropout buried in debt from failed market trading, and a doctor has told him he has two years at most to live. While fleeing debt collectors, he tumbles into the sea and is pulled out by Hana, a fishing lover, and her group of amateur anglers, including Takaaki. Hana wants to share her passion with him, while Takaaki pushes him to take a job at the convenience store where they work, a shop that also sells fishing gear. As work, new friendships and an unfamiliar hobby enter his life, Tsunehiro has to find the will to change and make the most of the time he has left. The show is a drama and slice of life sports story built around fishing.