Betrayed and disgraced, big-city reporter Kazuya Mizuno is banished to a desk at Kaname's boring little town newspaper. But Kaname isn't as boring as it seems on the surface. Not with characters around like Shimeko, a girl genius with a childlike lack of propriety, and her ace fisherman/folk-singer dad. Or the overbearing and unpleasant local Shinto priest, a former Christian cultist. Or Endo, Kazuya's new colleague, a bitter drunk after his son's suicide. Or Kin, a former terrorist, now a hermit on his boat engaging in secret "research." Or perhaps most importantly Teruko, the hypnotically beautiful bar owner, the focus of all manner of innuendo and intrigue. Something mysterious, even mystical, is going on Kaname, and hapless Kazuya is about to be thrown into the middle of it.

Cast

Tomorowo Taguchi

Kazuya Mizuno

Sarara Tsukifune

Teruko Hinohara

Shunsuke Matsuoka

Ishizuka

Michié

Shineko

Ayumu Saito

Kenji Onizuka

Noriko Eguchi

Teresa

Akira Emoto

Journalist

Kan Mikami

Gonza

Ryo Ishibashi

Kinichi Nihei

Haruki Ichikawa

Midori