Maiko Seo

Based on the novel by Maiko Seo.

피가 연결되지 않는 부모에게 키워지고, 4회나 성이 바뀐 모리미야 유코는, 몹시 요리가 능숙한 새아빠, 모리미야씨와 둘이서 생활. 지금은 졸업식을 향한 피아노를 맹특훈 중. 장래, 사랑, 친구, 잘 되지 않는 것뿐… 한편, 리카는, 몇번이나 남편을 바꾸면서 자유분방하게 살고 있는 마성의 여자. 울고 있는 딸만에게만 눈 가득 애정을 쏟으며 살고 있는 것 같았지만, 어느 날 갑자기, 사랑하는 딸을 남기고 모습을 감춰버렸다. 그리고 유코에게 닿은 한 통의 편지를 계기로, 완전히 다른 이야기가 펼쳐지며 교차해 간다. 「유코 짱, 사실은… 」 아빠가 숨기고 있던 것은? 리카는 왜 사라졌는가? 부모들이 가진 이란 대체 무엇인가.

A 7 year love story between Ryota Hayama and Koharu Uemura from their first date to eventual marriage. Ryota and Koharu are high school students. Ryota is indifferent to people and says very little. Koharu is not afraid of to speak her mind and she has a bright personality. Since a game of rice bag jump, they begin to date. They date at a fast-food restaurant, realize they love each other at a family restaurant and finally swear their love on a dining table with white rice.

A 7 year love story between Ryota Hayama and Koharu Uemura from their first date to eventual marriage. Ryota and Koharu are high school students. Ryota is indifferent to people and says very little. Koharu is not afraid of to speak her mind and she has a bright personality. Since a game of rice bag jump, they begin to date. They date at a fast-food restaurant, realize they love each other at a family restaurant and finally swear their love on a dining table with white rice.

Chizuru, a typical Japanese young female office worker, is socially clumsy, poor at romance and unhappy with her job. Being weary from a busy and stressful city life, she seriously desires to end her life somewhere faraway from the city and leaves for deep in the mountains, where she finds one lonely house. Then she attempts to commit suicide by taking sleeping pills in the guest house but she fails.... This is the beginning of her new life.

On the first day of school for third-year junior high student Nakahara Sawako (Kitano Kie), her father (Haba Yuichi, Off Balance) announces that he is quitting his teaching position and absolving from all parental responsibilities. For Sawako, this is only the latest episode in her family's parade of problems. Three years ago her father attempted suicide, and since then, things haven't been quite the same, with her mother (Ishida Yuriko, Miracle in Four Days) moving out and her studious older brother (Hiaraoka Yuta, Be With You) giving up school. Amidst the family drama, Sawako finds her own balance, working hard in school and developing a romance with cheerful transfer student Oura (Katusji Ryo, Aegis). But more obstacles lie ahead, changes that will throw her already fragile life further awry.

Nanako is an ordinary high school girl who lives with her mother, who is a taxi driver. One day, suddenly she has a younger brother - Nanao, the son of her late father's mistress. While Nanao's mother is being put in jail, Nanako's mother decides to take care of him. Nanako doesn't like it at all. Everything Nanao does irritates her. Shortly afterwards, Nanako's mother becomes very sick. In fact, she doesn't have much time left. Since she is in hospital, Nanako is forced to live with Nanao alone...