Your imaginary girlfriend just walked into your apartment. Therapy? Who needs it!
Season 1 • Episode 4
Latest28-year-old Keisuke has never had a girlfriend but posts about life with his fantasy girlfriend, Haru, on social networks. Then one day, his “ideal girl” Haru appears and she somehow behaves in the way that he fantasises. Keisuke gradually experiences a taste of romance. But is this situation imaginary? Or a reality?
Acting
Alice Hirose commits fully to being everyone's dream girl nightmare.
Writing
Four episodes of 'be careful what you post online' with zero subtlety.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on a web novel that went viral on Japanese social media in 2013, making this essentially adapted fanfiction of internet culture itself.
Released during Japan's 'herbivore men' media panic, the show accidentally became a Rorschach test — some viewers found it romantic, others deeply unsettling.
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