Waiting in the Summer

A summer film project becomes a love‑filled odyssey when a mysterious light rewrites reality.

When aspiring filmmaker Kaito Kirishima snaps a photo on a bridge one balmy night, a mysterious blue streak tears across the sky and knocks him off the railing. He awakens the next morning unharmed, with no memory of the incident and a lingering sense that something unseen brushed his hand. Back at school, Kaito and his close‑knit crew—Tetsurō, the tech‑savvy joker, and the quiet, camera‑obsessed Remon—decide to turn their summer break into a real‑world movie project. Their plan takes a turn when Tetsurō drags the enigmatic upperclassman Ichika Takatsuki, along with her aloof friend Remon, into the cast, hoping Kaito’s hidden crush will finally surface. As the group roams festivals, rooftops, and seaside cliffs, the line between acting and feeling blurs. The camera becomes a conduit for unspoken confessions, and each frame captures a fragment of the tangled affection triangle forming among them. Amid laughter, rivalry, and the occasional supernatural glitch that hints the blue light may have altered more than just Kaito’s night, the friends confront what it truly means to wait—for love, for summer, for the perfect shot. By the series’ end, their film isn’t just a school project; it’s a chronicle of youthful yearning and the bittersweet realization that some moments can’t be edited out.

A summer romance drama with a sci-fi twist, following high schoolers making a film while navigating a messy web of crushes. Expect teen relationship drama, moderate fan service, casual underage drinking, and one manipulative friend — all wrapped in a nostalgic, bittersweet coming-of-age story.