if: Koinu Monogatari

In the bustling halls of his high school, a dedicated class representative lives a life defined by responsibility and routine. However, an unexpected act of selflessness shatters his ordinary existence when he sacrifices his own life to save a small puppy from imminent danger. What should have been a tragic end instead becomes the beginning of a profound and disorienting mystery, as his ultimate sacrifice triggers an inexplicable phenomenon that defies the natural order. Rather than fading into nothingness, the young man suddenly finds himself thrust back into the very same day. The afternoon unfolds once more around him, presenting a surreal repetition of the hours he has already lived and lost. Trapped within this strange loop of time, he must navigate the familiar yet deeply unsettling events of the afternoon with the heavy knowledge of his prior fate. As the moments tick forward toward the critical juncture where his life was originally forfeited, he faces an extraordinary dilemma. Forced to confront the circumstances of his death anew, the class representative must determine how to exist within this recurring afternoon, caught between the instinct for self-preservation and the compassionate heart that drove him to risk everything for a helpless animal in the first place.