Omari Mio is a normal 17 year-old girl. She goes to school and works a part-time job to help support her family. Because her father is dead and her mother's sick, she often finds it hard to make ends meet.
One night, as Mio is coming home from work, she meets a handsome stranger who suddenly steals a kiss from her, and then throws money at her offering to buy her. Who is this mysterious stranger that stole Mio's first kiss?
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The two characters who do manage to stick around for the second half of this play – Ayumi and Hayami – aren't exactly main character material. While a lot of emphasis is put on Hayami's feelings for Maya, there really isn't any reason to get attached to him outside of the fact that he's supportive of Maya's career. As for Ayumi, she goes out of her way to drive away everyone in her life in order to strike out on her own, and because of this turns into a giant, cold-hearted fake of an actress whose sole purpose in the show is to contrast Maya's lovable, heart-felt style of acting. There are other characters and relationships established – two new boys enter her life, who might as well be called “Love Interest 2” and 'Love Interest 3,” and jealous actors continue to do things to hinder Maya's progress – but all of these fail to bring fresh tension to the story.
While most series might suffer when the best part of a show falls limp, Maya and Ayumi's roles and the lengths they go to learn them definitely come through and manage to save the day. Maya playing a doll brings her closer to understanding what it will take to play the non-human lead in The Scarlet Angel, and the journey both girls go through to discover their own way to play Helen keeps you on the edge of your seat. Even the shift to TV brings new ways for both girls to grow, and the more time the series spends focused on their acting roles over the characters around them, the better.
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