Slow Start(2018)

Slow Start is a comedy-drama series following Hana Ichinose, a 16-year-old high school student navigating an unusual challenge: she enrolled a year late. While her classmates remain oblivious to this gap, Hana struggles to keep pace academically and socially, determined to blend in without revealing her secret. The series explores the pressures of fitting in during adolescence as she works to catch up with her peers, balancing the weight of her hidden past against the desire for a normal school experience. With humor and heart, Slow Start captures the anxieties of teenage life and the lengths one girl will go to protect her secret.