The drama is a K.O.3an Guo reboot. With Zhi Ge as Liu Bei.

A 19-year-old girl burdened by a cruel destiny, a mother tormented by a tragic past, and a 41-year-old man living in atonement, and a relationship that brings strength in dark times. ‘Iki mo Dekinai Natsu’ is as much a social drama as it is a story about friendship, parents and children, and about what makes a family.

Takei plays said girl who learns that her mother never recorded her birth in their family register. While falling into despair after finding out the secret about her birth yet wholeheartedly trying to live to regain ‘herself’, she happens to run into a former journalist (Eguchi) who is suffering from a deep scar in his heart himself. Although they could be father and daughter, they start to form a bond that could be described as friendship... or, between the lines, something more? During this "breathless summer", they go through a number of things that will stay in their hearts forever.

Gao Yuan Shu was proposing to his girlfriend, Yu Chen, lavishly when a boat crashed into them and caused a horrific accident. Something pierced into Yuan Shu’s heart, Yi Fei injured his eyes, and Xiao Qian is badly burnt. All 3 of them get a transplant each: heart, eye, skin from a scientist that uses his own body to experiment on a drug that produces superpower but also negative side effects. The 3 good friends are thus gifted with three different superpowers that change their life. Gao Yuan Shu and Li Yi can control electromagnetism, An Yi Fei can predict the future, and He Xiao Qian can read other people’s thoughts. Ye Jiang Fan gained the ability of regenerative healing. And their superpowers can only be recharged by Tong Yu Chen.

Kurogane Shinobu is a roving reporter for the Local News Section of the Kyoto Times. During her time at the Kyoto Shinpo, she wrote numerous hardline exposes and even won awards. Although many reporters have left the Kyoto Times because they hated the change in policy, she stayed. Because Shinobu is tenacious and fearless in interviews, she is not scared of any interview subject and would make a beeline for the person without a thought for the inconvenience she might cause. This is the reason why she is banned from going in and out of many places.

Tsukiyama Hoshino, an office lady at a major bank, ends up seconded to a small game company called Studio G3 in Akihabara because of her superior’s harassment. What awaits her is a team of individualistic game creators led by company president Tenkawa Taiyo who thinks about nothing but creating interesting games. Meanwhile, Sensui Izuru of Solid Works, the industry’s largest company which Taiyo previously worked at, reaches out for Studio G3 and Taiyo but...

Based on the manga series "Tokyo Toy Box" by Ume.