In the aftermath of his family’s death, teenager Rei shelters himself from the world by throwing himself into shogi, crippled by his emotional turmoil, at least until he finds himself unwittingly fostering new relationships with his classmates as well as the three Kawamoto sisters, whose kindness slowly but surely manage to ease him through his trauma.
Ha, and you thought you were just going to get a show about some guy playing shogi, but instead got a masterclass in character study, an exploration of grief, maturity and how the connections we make between people are sometimes all we need to finally free ourselves from sorrow. In the aftermath of his family’s death, teenager Rei shelters himself from the world by throwing himself into shogi, crippled by his emotional turmoil, at least until he finds himself unwittingly fostering new relationships with his classmates as well as the three Kawamoto sisters, whose kindness slowly but surely manage to ease him through his trauma.