Though the premise - two high school students become step sister and brother and develop a budding mutual attraction - has the makings of commercial otaku hokum, author Mikawa Ghost approached the cliches with an uncommonly forensic eye and quasi-ethnographic lens; constructing a sensitive, yet sober drama through the baggage of the characters’ familial backstory wounds and social situations.
Rookie series director Souta Ueno successfully translates the verbose, moody, perhaps a little dry source material into a gentle, contemplative stream…
