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Story

Koko spends the final days of summer packing for college and saying goodbye to friends in New York City, when an untimely fight releases underlying feelings about her roots and pushes the teen to fly to her mother's hometown of Osaka Japan.

Searching for her relatives using only outdated return addresses ripped off decades old letters, the young woman crashes head-first into her total opposite: an intense, ultra conservative uncle...

Will she give up and run off to college, or accept him as the first link in a chain of unresolved family history?

Characters

Koko
Yuuta
Shunya
Seiichi
Satsuko

Koko

A swimming champion raised in Queens by her Japanese mother. As she prepares to move to Hawaii for college, her roots and family history pull at her in unexpected ways.

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Yuuta

A retired low-level athlete and true Osaka native. He spends his time arguing with the local disability benefits clerks and protesting against immigrants.

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Shunya

Pure and focused on baseball and high school, Shunya is aware of his next-door neighbor Yuuta’s motivations, but doesn't hold them against him.

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Seiichi

The big brother of the local protest club and a mentor to Yuuta.

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Satsuko

Works at the local bar.

She has a great sense of humor and isn't afraid of anyone.

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Pilot

Episode 1

Koko from Queens

Episode 2

Detour

Episode 2

Uncle Racist

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