Satsuki Maejima (Hana Sugisaki) is a girl working part-time at a Garden Shop but what she really wants is to work as a voice actress. As the garden job is just a stop-gap til she finally passes an audition, she has no real interest in the Garden Shop or even the Plants she is handling!
She does make wonderful little terrariums, however, which catches the eye of a customer who comes in frequently, though he never purchases any of them. She doesn’t know it, but this man Riku Morishita (Kisetsu Fujiwara) will become a big part of her life!
Satsuki is living in Tokyo with a roommate named Ayaka Nogi (Anna Ishii), another voice talent who also works at the garden shop with her. Ayaka has just passed an audition for an upcoming anime, and though she puts on a smile,it is hard for Satsuki not to feel jealous. “Why is it never me who is chosen?” she wonders.
As it happens, Ayaka has a voice job on a day she is supposed to do garden work, and asks Satsuki if she can substitute for her.
She readily agrees, but her lack of knowledge causes a bit of a quandary when doing the weeding, as she pulls out not only the weeds, but the plants that were meant to stay!
The problem is explained to the garden designer, who happens to be Morishita, the same customer who would regularly look at her terrariums. He recognizes her from the shop, but berates her for working at a garden shop and not caring enough to even learn the kinds of plants she is dealing with.
This humbles Satsuki, and though she is smarting from the assessment, she realizes she has been half-heartedly doing things ever since coming to Tokyo, and needs to make an effort to be more involved.
When Satsuki returns to the garden the next day, she pays mind to the flora peppering the garden and is mindful of learning as much as she can about them. Grateful for the lesson, she leaves Morishita a gift- one of her terrariums he’s been looking at.
The next day, Morishita thanks her for the gift and commends her at how well it is put together.
Satsuki admits she has no real knowledge of how the plants and moss would grow in real life, and only focused on building the terrariums so she could avoid customers (LOL), so Morishita invites her to come along hiking with him and see the moss growing in the wild.
Wasn’t sure exactly what Prism was going to be about, but I’m always up for another Hana Sugisaki drama. Here she looks just like she did in Koi Desu: Yankee-kun to Hakujou Garu, and at first I had to remind myself that she wasn’t blind! LOL.
Anna Ishii stars as her roomate, and it’s a funny thing that I always thought the two looked really similar to each other, seeing them in this drama, they look like sisters!!
I was fairly charmed by this first episode, crossing fingers that it doesn’t degenerate into a generic romcom…
