Becoming My Dream Pharmacist - Christmas Mayhem!
The snow falls silent over Tokyo, and with it comes a letter that traveled four hundred kilometers from Osaka—carrying memories of summer gardens, cicada shells, and promises made by seven-year-old children who didn't know yet what growing up would cost.
Akio Hukitaske is around 17 or so. He's also thirty-two. He carries the weight of a lifetime lived badly, compressed into a body too heavy to bear it—a second chance granted by mysterious science, a regression that gave him youth but couldn't erase the scars of adult failure. Months after nearly losing himself on a battlefield, he's learning to breathe again, to try again, to believe that healing is possible even for the broken.
Then Yazumira arrives.
His cousin. The kid from the garden. The one who moved to Osaka seeking quiet in a city that wasn't Tokyo, who remembers Akio as he was—hopeful, determined, dreaming of becoming a pharmacist who could heal the world. Yazumira doesn't know about the regression, the adult memories, the thirty-two years of exhaustion that hollowed Akio out until nothing remained but resignation. He only knows the child who promised to learn to fly.
As Christmas approaches and snow blankets the city in temporary white, two cousins separated by distance, time, and transformation must navigate the impossible terrain of reconnection. What do you say to someone who knew you before you learned to break? How do you explain that you're no longer the person they remember—that you've died and been reborn and still don't know who you're supposed to become?
With Hikata's chaotic loyalty, Natsuko's quiet understanding, and the warmth of found family gathering against winter's cold, this four-episode special explores the courage it takes to be seen.
Written in the emotional, cinematic style of slice-of-life themes. This is a story about cicada shells and Christmas lights, about distance measured in heartbeats rather than kilometers, about learning that transformation always hurts but flying might be worth the pain.
Some distances can only be crossed by leaving the light on and hoping someone brave enough will walk through the door.
RATED: MA 15+
Genre: Slice-of-Life, Emotional Drama, Family, Healing
Themes: Second chances, Chosen family
Timeline: Half a year before Part 2 of the main series | Six months after The Second Movie
