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This drama introduced me to the concept of NEET: individuals who are not in education, employment, or training. In Japan, this comprises people aged 15-34 who are not employed, not engaged in housework, not enrolled in school or work-related training, and not seeking work. In the drama, a young girl, abandoned by her parents, had taken care of her ailing grandparents and dropped out of school. She was a homebound person through poverty, depression, and lack of emotional support after her grandparents' deaths.

Fictionally, in the drama, the Japanese government started a program to marry NEETs to government employees in order to help them, promote childbirth to alleviate Japan's troublesome declining rates, and help society. This is how the ML, a government employee, ended up married to the FL, a NEET. Their relationship was on paper, but, as often happens in dramaland and in real life, close proximity brings feelings, and life becomes complicated.

The drama was a quiet, sweet affair, and I was pleased to learn something from it.