Mai-Mai Miracle

Mai-Mai Miracle takes place in 1955 in Kokuga, Hofu City, within Yamaguchi Prefecture. This area was once the site of the ancient capital Suo no Kuni, and remnants from the Heian Period (794-1185) still exist today in the form of ruins and place names. The story centers around Shinko, a third-grade elementary school student from a long-established local family, who possesses a distinctive physical characteristic: a curl on her forehead known as her "Mai Mai.