Nande Ikiteru ka Wakaranai Hito: Izumi Sumi 25-sai

At twenty-five, Izumi Sumi leads a life that looks ordinary from the outside—a part-time job, a daily routine, days that quietly blur into one another. Yet beneath that unremarkable surface, she is fighting a battle few around her ever notice. Anxiety shadows her every step, and depression drains the color from even the simplest moments, leaving her to wonder how she ended up merely existing rather than truly living. The question weighs on her relentlessly: why is she alive at all? What is the point of dragging herself out of bed each morning, clocking in, and repeating it all again tomorrow? As she navigates the small, exhausting struggles of adulthood—the fatigue, the self-doubt, the sense of drifting without direction—Sumi finds herself searching for something, anything, that might make her existence feel meaningful. This introspective series follows Sumi through the quiet turbulence of her mid-twenties, portraying with honesty and sensitivity what it means to live with anxiety and depression while grappling with one of life's most fundamental questions. It is a grounded, emotionally resonant portrait of a young woman still searching for her reason to keep going.