The first episode is a master class in subverting what you think this show is, then pivoting so hard it rewires your investment in everything that follows. A doctor dies saving an idol's life, gets reborn as her son, and suddenly you're watching a psychological thriller about ambition and parasitic fame through the eyes of someone who remembers being an adult. The animation sells every moment of artifice, the idol's stage presence, the cracks in her smile, the way the camera fetishizes her collapse, because showbiz isn't about authenticity, it's about the performance of having none.
A rural gynecologist who idolizes Ai Hoshino, a sixteen-year-old rising star of the idol group B Komachi, gets pulled into the entertainment world when she turns up at his countryside clinic pregnant with twins. He promises to deliver her children safely and in secret so she can return to the stage without scandal. On the eve of the birth, he is killed by Ai's deluded stalker and is reborn as Aquamarine Hoshino, one of her children. The glamor of showbiz hides a dark side that threatens his favorite star, and he hopes to help his new mother rise to the top. What follows is a psychological, supernatural drama with a mystery at its center, set in an industry where lies are used as weapons.
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