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A girl falls in love with a boy for saving a kitten in the rain, then accidentally ends up beside him on the student council. That's the entire premise, and it doesn't need to be anything more. The show breathes in the quiet spaces between confessions, finding everything it needs in shy glances and the specific embarrassment of being thrust into something you never chose. One OVA episode means nothing gets stretched or overexplained, just the exact moment where two people realize they might actually like each other back.
SYNOPSIS
Midori catches a glimpse of a handsome stranger comforting a stray cat on a rainy spring afternoon, and it's enough to spark an instant, all-consuming crush. She doesn't even know his name, yet he's already occupying every corner of her mind. Weeks later, after recovering from illness, she returns to school to discover she's been drafted as a student council candidate without her consent. What starts as an embarrassing mess of accidents and miscommunications somehow lands her on the newly formed council alongside Akira Sudo, the very boy from that fateful day. Now Midori has to navigate the awkward reality of working closely with her secret crush while the two of them help establish traditions for their school's first-ever student council. Romance simmers beneath mundane responsibilities, awkward conversations, and the everyday chaos of high school life. It's a tender story about how attraction can bloom into something real through proximity and shared purpose, where shy glances and fumbled words matter just as much as grand gestures.
