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Manifesting itself from people's emotions, the mysterious power known as Beatrice is the most powerful magic known to mankind.
There is only one school in Japan that teaches the ways of Beatrice- Tokyo Beatrice University Senior High school, also known as TBU High.
Mamoru Yoshimura is a short teenager who looks like he's about ten years old. His smile is his saving grace, and can make anyone feel better. He is honest, cheerful, courteous and a true romantic. As a child, his life was saved by the magic of Beatrice. Waiting to learn more about conjuring and controlling the supernatural, he transfers TBU High as a freshman. He will soon discover that while he lacks development, he has a talent for controlling Beatrice and may even be a genius-level charmer. On Mamoru's first day, he saw a girl sitting under a blooming cherry blossom tree. She is a sight to behold. Before Mamoru can even ask her name, he was told by her, "We should go steady."
And that was the day that fate brought Mamoru and Ayako together.
Ayako Takasu is a sophomore at TBU High. She serves as the president of the student body and is the granddaughter of an important politician. In addition to being tall and gorgeous, she also is a genius-level Beatrice charmer capable of using her powers to do almost anything that pops into her head. The other students call her Beatrice the Witch and Beatrice the Angel of Death behind her back, but deep down inside, she is actually a very innocent girl with a kind soul.

Takumi Harada (Kento Hayashi) moves to Okayama Prefecture with his family during spring break before his entry to Junior High School. On the baseball field, Takumi has enormous confidence in his ability as pitcher, but socially he is a loner and appears unapproachable to others. His family consists of his constitutionally weak younger brother Seiha (Akihiro Yarita); his mother Makiko (Yuki Amami) who is so protective of Seiha that she cannot help acting coldly to Takumi; and his grandfather Yozo who was once a famous high school baseball coach who lead his team to the national high school baseball convention at Koshien Stadium. Even his warm, caring family is not sure at times how to deal with the solitary side of Takumi. Takumi meets a new classmate Goh Nagakura (Kenta Yamada). Goh is captivated by Takumi's pitching and is eager to pair up with him as his catcher. The two join the Nitta East Junior High School baseball team, only to discover that baseball there is under the "complete control" of a dictator-like coach. Unwilling to compromise his beliefs, Takumi defies and clashes with the coach. His classmate Mayu Yajima is gradually attracted to Takumi's relentlessness. Takumi and Goh seem to beg doing very well together, until the disparity of their skills start to come between them. Eventually, Goh brings up dissolving their duo and Takumi accepts. Seiha desperately tries to bring the two back together. "You gotta pitch!" The two rejoin again, but just at that moment, Seiha falls ill. Takumi's mother pushes him away claiming that involving Seiha with baseball was the cause of his illness. However, the father Hiroshi suggests that perhaps Takumi had continued to play baseball to avoid worrying about his weak younger brother and to divert his mind from the loneliness of not getting attention from his parents. Finally, with his own life is in danger, Seiha asks Takumi right before the big game, "Make sure you win...okay Takumi?" With Seiha's words marked in his heart, Takumi heads toward the baseball field.

A dead patriarch's fortune and strangely written will lead to scandalous family murders. And a brilliant detective uncovers a web of love and hatred, ultimately leading to a frightening truth... Sahei Inugami (played by Tatsuya Nakadai), once "Japan's pharmaceutical king," is the founder of the Inugami conglomerate. Sahei passes away, leaving a massive fortune and a large family. His complex lineage includes three daughters, each born of different mothers. The daughters are Matsuko (Junko Fuji), Takeko (Keiko Matsuzaka) and Umeko (Hisako Manda). Each daughter has a son: Sukekiyo (Kikunosuke Onoe), Suketake (Shingo Katsurayama) and Suketomo (Mansaku Ikeuchi). Living with the whole family in Sahei's mansion is the beautiful Tamayo Nonomiya (Nanako Matsushima). She is the granddaughter of a man who helped Sahei build his wealth, a man to whom Sahei owed all to... Wakabayashi, executer of the will, foresees the deadly conflicts between the family members and asks the detective Kosuke Kindaichi (Koji Ishizaka) for help. Before Kindaichi can meet him, Wakabayashi is killed. The will is read to the family. All are shocked. "Tamayo will inherit the entire fortune on condition that she marry one of my grandchildren: Sukekiyo, Suketake, or Suketomo." Sahei's demands start a bloody battle, pitting each relative against the other. As Wakabayashi feared, family members befall grizzly murders as everyone struggles for the fortune now resting with Tamayo. The detective Kosuke Kindaichi investigates the murders, finding deeply buried secrets behind the family's lineage. Ultimately, Kosuke discovers an unimaginable Inugami secret!

After his parent's divorce, Kazuo Saito moves with his mother from Onomichi and must leave his girlfriend behind. At his new school, Kazuo is surprised to reunite with his childhood friend Kazumi. "Remember I kissed you, saying I'll marry you when we're grown ups?" He feels embarrassed around Kazumi, who talks about their early childhood stories without any reserve. Kazumi has a boyfriend named Hiroshi Yamamoto. Kazuo is annoyed with Hiroshi's attitude, but with Kazumi, they naturally start to get comfortable with each other again just like old times. Kazumi's family runs a long-standing soba noodle restaurant. Her very lively, Japanese family consists of her parents, her grandfather, and a very young niece. She has one older brother who lives away in Tokyo. One day, Kazumi invites Kazuo to her house. After talking about old times, they walk to a place from their childhood called the "Lonely Watering Place". "Kazuo, the water here is very good. That's why our soba noodles also taste so good." Kazuni tries to scoop up some water with a dipper and the two accidentally fall into the water. They quickly crawl out, but suddenly realize that they have switched bodies! (In the following, Kazuo's mind inside Kazumi's body will be referred to as "KAZUO", and Kazumi's mind inside Kazuo's body will be referred to as "KAZUMI".) They go home, to the others family, who know nothing about the switch, but they seem rattled. Upset with the whole situation, the two both leave their homes. KAZUO says to sobbing KAZUMI, "For today, I'll have to play you and you'll have to play me."

Minako is working abroad as a pinhole photographer when she learns from her doctor that she's going to lose her sight. Minako decides to return to her hometown, Toyohashi, so she can see her childhood home one last time. Minako still carries the old-fashioned pinhole camera, which once belonged to her brother. As she is photographing the city, Minako meets a couple of high school students, YUKIHIKO and SAEKO. They are in the midst of preparing an event that will revive the traditional "Eejanaika Dance," which originated in Toyohashi. Minako begins to tell them about her childhood... In 1943, Minako, 6, and her brother SHINJI, 12, move from Tokyo to Toyohashi. At first, Shinji is treated as an outsider by his classmates, but as time goes on he is gradually accepted and becomes the leader of his class. As WWII wages on and the fighting becomes fiercer, Shinji's teacher and his classmates' fathers are sent off to war one after the other. When Shinji enters junior high, his class is ordered to start working in a naval yard based in Toyokawa instead of attending school. August 6, 1945. The atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. The very next day, during one of the many air raids, the factory Shinji has been working in is hit. Shinji is killed, along with many of his classmates. Their young lives have been stolen from them. As they listen to Minako's story, Yukihiko and Saeko consider the preciousness of friendship, family and peace. Their re-examination of their lives helps them find a new meaning in the dance revival and gives them greater determination to make the event successful.