Grope: Yami no naka no Kotori-tachi
Grope ～闇の中の小鳥たち～
Synopsis
Four students trapped by disaster confront hidden feelings and tangled relationships in a survival-turned-romance story.
Fubuki Momose, an athletic high school girl, finds herself drawn to the quiet and seemingly indifferent Shinichi Kawahara. Though they share classes and mutual friends, neither has been able to bridge the gap between them—until fate intervenes in an unexpected way. When a natural disaster strikes their school, Fubuki and Shinichi find themselves trapped alongside two other students: Takaaki Tsumura, Shinichi's outgoing best friend, and Mizuha Senju, a younger student with her own quiet presence. As the four navigate their confined circumstances, the emotional walls between them begin to shift. In this pressure-cooker environment, hidden feelings emerge, and the delicate threads of friendship and romance become increasingly tangled. What begins as a struggle for survival evolves into something far more complex, as the relationships between these four young people are tested in ways none of them could have anticipated.
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