This show doesn't perform its emotional beats. It just lets them breathe until they break you. Two girls relearning each other after a decade apart discover that some people don't fit neatly back into your life, no matter how much you want them to, and the show never flinches from how much that hurts. The pacing will feel glacial if you're chasing plot, but that's the point, every quiet moment between them is the entire story, and by the finale you'll understand why a single glance holds more weight than most anime put into entire arcs.

Fumi and Akira were inseparable as young children until Fumi's family moved away. A decade later, Fumi returns to her hometown to start at Matsuoka Girls' High School and runs into Akira again, who is about to begin at a different school, Fujigatani Girls' Academy. Picking up where they left off proves difficult, since both have changed a great deal. At her new school, a popular senior named Yasuko Sugimoto singles Fumi out for attention, and Fumi, who has long leaned on Akira, has to work out who she is on her own. Akira, meanwhile, still hopes their friendship can be what it once was. The result is a quiet romantic drama about two girls facing the ups and downs of high school, sometimes apart and sometimes side by side.