Aoi Minase (Miho Kanno) is an eccentric Romance Novelist who is on the downward slope of her success. “The era of Aoi Minase may be over!” she laments as her latest serialization gets cancelled and her long standing literary agent quits, only to be replaced by a younger guy.
Aoi’s last serial was a murder mystery, something she was not too succesful with, and they tell her her last chance is to go back to the romance books she was so well known for.
But for a Single Mother long out of the love game, she just doesn’t have the spirit in her to write any more romantic stories.
This concerns her introverted and studious teenage daughter Sora, who besides being her Mom’s closest ally, has been taking care of the finances and bookkeeping for the two. Aoi’s extravagant style of living, in glorious apartments and stylish clothes and meals has to go, but Aoi just cannot shrug off the rich and famous lifestyle she has been leading!
This causes clashes between the two, and whenever they need time to cool off, they always go down to the taiyaki shop run by Gon-chan (Ikki Sawamura) and his father (Masatoshi Nakamura) Besides being the place where the young Sora works, Gon has been Aoi’s friend since they were in elementary school. Somehow they always help the mother and daughter smooth things over.
A chance encounter with an “Ikemen” guy (Keisuke Higashi) where Sora has stumbled with her coffee while looking at the sky, gives her her first brush with interest in the opposite sex. Sora’s life has been an otaku obsession of manga and BL stories, but for the first time she thinks a guy’s attractive!
And so it is that when Mom Aoi confesses she has absolutely no idea of what to write for her last career-saving novel, Sora puts herself up for sacrifice, telling her, “You can write about ME! I will go out, fall in love and start a relationship! Surely THAT will give you some ideas?”
A STINNED Aoi, who has always thought her frumpy daughter would NEVER get a boyfriend, LEAPS at the idea and they make a pact!
Things seem to be off on a smooth launch, but when Aoi goes in to see a physical therapist about her “frozen shoulder’ problems, it happens to be the same guy that Sora was interested in…and MOM falls for him, too! This will SURELY throw a wrench in the Mom and Daughter’s plans!!!
I mentioned it before, but it is still a SHOCK to see actresses whom I’d primarily known for teenage roles start doing parental roles, and I confess it is still hard for me to see Miho Kanno as Minami’s Mother! But they are both GREAT here, especially Minami, whom is quickly becoming one of my BIG favorite young actresses!!!!
Can't wait to see more!!!
