Wave, Listen to Me! (2020)
The stage is Sapporo, Hokkaido. One night, our heroine, Minare Koda, spills her heartbroken woes to a radio station worker she meets while out drinking one night. The next day, she hears a recording of her pitiful grumbling being played live over the air. Minare storms into the station in a rage, only to then be duped by the station director into doing an impromptu talk show explaining her harsh dialogue. With just one recording, the many eccentric facets of Minare's life begin to pull every which direction as she falls ever deeper into the world of radio.
Seasons & Episode
Minare Koda hears herself on the radio during her shift at Voyager, a soup curry restaurant. When she rushes over to MRS, Moiwayama Radio Station, to look for Kanetsugu Mato, the chief director, she’s put on the spot to speak live on air.
Minare is surprised at the customers who recognized her voice on the radio. Mato and the MRS crew come by Voyager and recruits her right after she was told she’d be fired at the restaurant.
Tight on money, Minare decides to work at MRS and stays with Mizuho Nanba, an assistant director. Mato reveals his plan to have Minare host a late night program with her name in the title.
Manager Takarada gets in an accident so Minare goes back to working at Voyager. A mysterious woman, Makie Tachibana joins them to help out at the restaurant until Takarada recovers, but things start to get weird for Minare.
After a sudden call from Mato, Minare goes on air for the first official episode of her program to give a fictitious report about how she killed Mitsuo, her ex-boyfriend.
Nakahara lets Makie stay at his place where she reveals a dark family past to Meiko, his older sister. Minare is desperate for a segment idea so Mato sends her and Mizuho to investigate the sender of a mysterious fax.
Minare and Mizuho arrive at Oki’s place where he reveals his past with Ritsuko, his missing girlfriend. When Minare goes up in the attic to figure out the source of the dark liquid that drips from the ceiling, she finds bags of suspicious meat.
To use as content for her program, Minare calls her father to find out the origin of her name. Meanwhile, Manager Takarada returns to Voyager along with Toru, Makie’s overprotective brother.
Minare receives a text from Mitsuo and agrees to meet up. Despite all the inner turmoil, she ends up spending the whole day with him.
Nakahara gets bent out of shape when he finds out Minare went on a date with Mitsuo. At MRS, sound effect masters Kakoton and Kakoen join the crew for the next live radio drama broadcast.
In the radio drama, Minare faces a deity along with Mitsuo that will reincarnate them to the next life. In preparation for the next broadcast, Minare receives a lot of support from her friends.
As soon as Minare starts her broadcast, a strong earthquake strikes Hokkaido that causes a widespread power outage. Minare is put on the spot to continue her program during the disaster.
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