A college freshman with amnesia navigates new friendships and obsessive love, all touched with melancholy.
Romantic and earnest. A full-attention watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
Not on a US subscription service as of Oct 27, 2026.
It stays inside its TV-14, with some innuendo or implied sex and mild language.
Rated TV-14, but by what is on screen our estimate is fine from about 10.
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Banri Tada is a freshman at a Tokyo law school. After an accident, he suffers severe memory loss. Despite the incident, he befriends fellow freshman, Mitsuo Yanagisawa, which leads him to the beautiful, yet obsessive, Kouko Kaga.
Bittersweet. It earns its ending, but not everyone gets what they want.
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