Episode 1: I Think of Others
Our protagonist is Otosaka Yu and he has a special ability. He can possess a person for exactly five seconds. However, he hasn’t exactly used it admirably. Instead, Yu uses his powers to cheat his way through life. He’s not a very likeable person. He’s scheming and only thinks of himself.
Yu decides that he wants to attend the most prestigious high school and therefore does his due diligence in researching students that are vying for top scores into that high school. From there, he possesses them during the exam to become the top scoring student reaching his goal.
Yu seems to have it all. Top grades and good looks. He’s just missing one thing. Shirayanagi Yumi, the Madonna of the school.
Yu puts Yumi’s life in danger so that he could save her from being hit by a truck. After he helps her out at the nurse’s office, she invites him out for pancakes. He initially refuses, but when she insists, Yumi’s friend gets the hint and leaves the two of them alone. After pancakes, Yumi asks if they could walk home together more often to which he agrees. He’s playing her like a fiddle.
The next day at school, Yu is summoned to the student council office. There, he is accused of cheating on the exam. They give him one option. To take the test and score above 90%, or be expelled. As he takes the test, he decides to switch places with the other student who has the answer sheet. However, the student is looking at a lewd photograph, so he tears it up. As he returns to his body, Tomori, a student council president from another school catches him on video. She’s been following him and has extensive coverage of him switching bodies. After revealing she knows his secret, Yu runs only to be chased by another student who can use teleportation.
Tomori tells Yu he has to transfer to their school. He learns his special powers are only temporary like a illness. Until they go away, he will attend her school. When he tries to take her camera away, she becomes invisible and attacks him.
We learn that Tomori can make herself invisible to only one person while everyone else can see her. Hence, Yu didn’t see her attacks coming, but the other student did.
Yu returns home to be greeted by his younger sister, Ayumi, who announces that they are now scholarship students to Hoshinoumi Academy. We learn that she loves stargazing. We also learn that Yu and his sister were given to their uncle after their parents got divorced. Yu tells her the only family they have is each other. However, his sister tells Yu that she feels like there was someone else.
Yu has a conversation with Yumi and tries to keep their new relationship going. However, he won’t be able to leave the area to visit her. Sensing this would make her out to be a one-sided chase, she coldly dumps him.
Yu and his sister had to move to a building closer to the high school and it is very modern and nice. While they’re unpacking, Tomori and Takajo (the kid who can use teleporation) show up and offer their assistance. That night, Yu had a dream and there was someone else walking with him and his sister.
THOUGHTS
If I had that kind of power, I can’t necessarily say I would be innocent LOL. I think Yu did what anyone of that age would do. Think of himself. That’s what young children do. It makes sense that he thinks only of himself considering his mother abandoned them after her divorce to their father.
I am so glad that Yumi dumped him. Good for her! She knows her worth and won’t be made to be a stalker.
I am not 100% sure that I am interested in continuing the show. I was expecting there to be more hilarity in Yu using his powers for no-good, but it seems this train is on the track for a different outcome.
The idea isn’t exactly original either. I can’t think of the name, but I feel like I’ve seen this concept before. That’s not saying much these days, though. It’s hard to come up with an original idea that isn’t already forged somewhere else.
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