It hands a grade-schooler the one thing no kid should have to carry: a front-row seat to her own parents before she existed. Ichigo boards a magical bus after school and steps out in the era when her mother and her real father first met, which means every warm moment she witnesses is a moment she already knows the ending to. That's the quiet cruelty at the center of this thing, because the dad waiting for her at home is a step-father, and loving him and wanting the past rewritten are not the same wish. Five episodes, no spectacle, no stakes bigger than one family staying in the same room. It works because it never lets Ichigo be cute about it, she's just a small person doing math on adults who never explained themselves. Slept on, and the people who found it don't shut up about it for a reason.

Young Ichigo, a fourth grader, lives with her kind mother and a stepfather who is far less gentle, and she worries as the marriage falls apart before her eyes. When a mysterious bus driver appears after school, she boards a magical bus that defies the rules of time itself. The bus carries her backward to the early days of her mother and real father's relationship. Landing in her real father's apartment years in the past, Ichigo poses as his younger sister and senses she might be there for a reason. Perhaps she can help her mother and real father come together and keep their love alive into the future. Adapted from a seinen manga, this short web series blends adventure, comedy and everyday life with a child's hope of repairing her family.