One day, teenager Takuya Onodera gets into a traffic accident with 42-year old salaryman Kazuhiro Kubota. After having been in a coma for nearly a month, Onodera wakes up at the same exact moment Kubota passes on. Now, somehow, Takuya Onodera has memories of having lived as Kazuhiro Kubota.
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