Yuuji walks into a school full of girls who have already decided they're broken, and the show treats that decision like a lie that needs proving wrong. Each character's darkness gets its own episode, its own unraveling, its own moment where you realize the damage runs deeper than the surface comedy pretended. The 13 episodes compress what should have been a full season into something that moves too fast to let you look away, and that brutal pacing is exactly what makes it work, the same way a scar forms faster when the wound runs deep.
Mihama Academy looks like a secluded school for students at odds with the world, but it works more like a prison for five girls who each carry a painful past. Their days pass slowly and quietly inside its walls. Then Kazami Yuuji arrives as the school's first male student, and the settled routine begins to fall apart. He is hard to read, and he keeps leaving without warning for a mysterious job. As he gets to know each girl, he learns more about the trauma that brought her there, and he may be what helps them take back their lives. Yet his own past may weigh more than anyone else's. The story is a psychological romance drama with ecchi elements.
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