Seems some 6 months ago, Edamatsu was struggling at his computer trying to come up with some kind of story for the upcoming writing contest, the Newcomer Literary Award. He's been at it for hours, but just CANNOT come up with anything good!
At that moment, he receives a package in the mail- it seems his school has opened up a time capsule buried there back when he was a student there, and has gone about returning the articles to the students who placed them in the capsule.
There is no name on the notebook, but the handwriting indicates a girl wrote it.
Out of curiosity he reads it and, finding it pretty good, decides on a whim to use it as the basis for his OWN novel. In the end he barely changes ANYTHING about it, but since he hardly expects to place, sends it off anyway. But then he finds he won the GRAND PRIZE and that they are PUBLISHING his book! EGADS!
The first thing the Publishers do is set him up with his own agent, the able but unlucky Miharu Katamaya (Yua Shinkawa), someone with the bad track record of losing her clients! She's hoping to start having some good luck by taking on Edamatsu, but she'll have her work cut out for her!
A guilty Edamatsu tries to confess many times about his plagiarism, however in the end he just cannot do it, and the company informs him that they want Edamatsu to begin writing a SERIAL every month for their periodical!
At first taken aback, Katayama has a cooler head about the situation and knows that not only will Edamatsu get into trouble if this gets out- so will SHE! And with so much riding on the success of Edamatsu, she tells him that for the time being, he should keep his theft a secret between them, and PROCEED with the serial.
Edamatsu finds several things he put in the capsule, but doesn’t recognize a notebook containing an entire story called “Spring and Ultramarine”. He then remembers he had put a “Rant Book” into the capsule which looked a lot like this notebook, and figures they must have mixed them up when divvying up the contents of the time capsule to return to the students.
Out of curiosity he reads it and, finding it pretty good, decides on a whim to use it as the basis for his OWN novel. In the end he barely changes ANYTHING about it, but since he hardly expects to place, sends it off anyway. But then he finds he won the GRAND PRIZE and that they are PUBLISHING his book! EGADS!
Edamatsu feels he doesn’t have it IN him to write any stories on his own, and sure enough, night after night we see him staring forlornly at a blank screen on his computer!
He finally gives in, loudly apologizing on his knees as he confesses to Katayama that he didn't write the story at all, that it was lifted from a notebook he came across, and that he doesn't have any skills to write anything, much less a serial!
"I stole it all from this notebook!"
"Why Me?" thinks Katayama
There is the problem, of course, besides Edamatsu's inability to write- the mystery of who really wrote the novel, and they only have two clues: ONE, that it was written by a girl, and TWO, this girl must have been in Edamatsu’s class since she put it in the capsule, so together they must figure out who it is. It seems like a daunting task, however, Edamatsu has an uncanny knack for remembering details of everyone, and furthermore- he had, at one time or another, a crush on EVERY SINGLE GIRL in his class!
"Here's what we'll do....."
"Young" Edamatsu played by Touri Oikawa
It is a fun and humorous story, and though in the end, he did not get the kiss, Katayama is impressed at his attention to detail and how the story is crafted with a feeling of warmth and heart. Suddenly inspired, Katayama knows what the subject of the new serial will be: STORIES ABOUT ALL THE GIRLS THAT EDAMATSU LOVED, one girl at a time!
Not only will this method produce insightful stories with love and care which people will want to read, but going through each girl one by one, they will hopefully discover the TRUE author of Spring and Ultramarine and be able to locate them! Will they ever find the real writer? And…even if they DO…what will this woman say when she realizes Edamatsu has stolen her story and claimed it as his own? Only time will tell!
In the meantime, we will be hearing the tales of Edamatsu and all his fond memories of his school loves and losses!
SO far we've had tales of girls promising kisses for trading stamps, a tuff tomboyish girl who shares a love of wrestling, a beautiful girl who is known for throwing up in class and who finds a friend in him…
Posed by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com
