Mirai e Kimi to. (2024)

This is a short 4-episode mini-drama posted on Youtube in promotion of the 50th anniversary of Mynavi Corporation (which was on August 15, 2023). It depicts youth at different stages in life.

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Episode 1 (Yuu and Kousuke)
Episode 2 (Saki and Makoto)
Episode 3 (Hana and Shoutarou)
Episode 4 (Umi and the family) - Final

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Cast:

Kawashima Ririka as Watari Yuu
Taira Yuna as Watari Saki
Nishida Naomi as Watari Hana
Asada Miyoko as Watari Umi
Saito Yoichiro as Watari Toshio
Fukumatsu Rin as Mizumoto Kousuke
Fukuyama Shodai as Miyamoto Makoto
Kato Shinsuke as Tobe Shoutarou
Uda Kotone as Kaho
Nagatani Sae as Nagi

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The poem "Youth" by Samuel Ullman that is referenced in the mini-drama actually had a profound impact on Japan and is more known in Japan than USA (birth country of the poet). You can read a bit more about the history here.

The full poem is as follows:

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.