A woman wakes up from a car accident convinced she's someone new, and the show trusts that this is funny and heartbreaking at once. Yumeko doesn't learn to love herself through grinding self-improvement arcs; she just decides she's worth something, and watching everyone around her recalibrate to this version of her becomes the actual story. The comedy lands hardest when it's about her refusing to shrink anymore, but the show never pretends amnesia is a cure, it's just permission she gave herself to stop asking for it.
Yumeko has spent years disappearing into the background of her own life, crushed beneath layers of doubt and self-criticism. Her days blur together in quiet desperation until a freak accident scrambles her memory and rewires something fundamental in her mind. She wakes up transformed, shedding the weight of her former insecurities like a discarded coat. The people around her are stunned by the change, and her upbeat new outlook starts to rub off on them, helping them face their own hang-ups. Armed with fresh confidence, Yumeko throws herself into romance, her job and her friendships, and she may even end up tangled in an attempted murder case. The result is a lively romantic comedy with a dramatic streak.
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