It gets you with the cake. One minute Arisa Minase is sharing a slice with her older brother on the night before her birthday, the clock hits midnight, and the floor is just gone. What lands isn't the fall, it's the recognition: everyone in Wonderland wears a face she already loves, and every one of them calls her Alice like her real name never existed. Then the day resets, and resets, and the warmth of that ordinary family life starts reading as the thing being held hostage. This is a quiet one, no spectacle, no big set pieces, just a gentle girl walking the same hours until she can name what's wrong. A single OVA episode, so it hits like a nightmare you have to shake off before breakfast.

Arisa Minase is a cheerful high school girl with loving parents, an older brother and plenty of friends. On the eve of her birthday, as the clock strikes midnight, the ground gives way beneath her and she falls into Wonderland, where everyone insists she is someone named Alice. The residents look like people from her own life, yet none of them remember their old names or connections to her. Among them are twins called Light and Shadow, an affectionate Cheshire Cat, a sleepy dormouse named Round and a gentle, secretive Black Rabbit. Time here never moves forward, and Arisa lives the same day over and over. To break the loop and get home, she has to track down the real Alice.