Itsumo hitori de - [いつも一人で] - (Always Alone)
いつも一人で (Itsumo hitori de - Always Alone)
Series Description
RATED: MA18+ | 12 Episodes | Supernatural Tragedy
In a Tokyo drowning beneath endless rain, two souls exist in parallel hells separated by death itself. Seishin Hōrō-sha dies at fifteen—broken, abandoned, worthless. A truck crushes him on rain-slicked streets after years of bullying, family betrayal, and abuse. Death brings no peace. Ancient folklore condemns him: souls without purpose cannot ascend.
Trapped as a wandering spirit, invisible and voiceless, Seishin watches his mother die, his siblings—Daiki, Hana, Kaito, Yukimira, Mei-Suke, Rikunuke, Sorana—scatter into crime and forgetting. None mourn him. The promises they made as children mean nothing now.
For two years he drifts, purposeless, fading. Then he sees Ritchi Utsu.
Five years old. Wealthy. Suffering behind closed doors in ways that mirror Seishin's own hell. "Independence training" that's systematic torture. Parents demanding perfection, punishing with cruelty. A life of isolation and psychological destruction masked by privilege.
Seishin recognizes himself. Feels purpose for the first time since death.
For ten years he watches, unable to intervene as Ritchi endures beatings, assault, suicide attempts. A ghost bearing witness to suffering he cannot prevent—until rain changes everything.
During storms, barriers thin. Seishin manifests briefly, leaving messages in fog, reaching Ritchi for seconds that prove he's not alone.
Their connection deepens. Seishin becomes the invisible guardian, the one constant. But spirits fade. His time is ending.
The final year brings violence and desperate choices. Ritchi must survive without his ghost. During one last storm, Ritchi sees Seishin's face, remembers the teenager who walked into traffic ten years ago, recognizes their intertwined fates.
Their goodbye transcends death itself.
"The rain remembers everything we try to forget."
