Karada is a cheerful young girl who is about to enter her first year of junior high school. Her parents passed away when she was two years old, and has since lived together with her older brother, Hiro. She looks younger than she really is and wishes to grow up faster, due to hating being treated like a child. She has also learnt how to cook and do house chores herself, due to her not wanting to worry Hiro. Her friend and classmate, Tetsuya, seems to have feelings for her.  ~! She doesn&#039;t know that Hiro is not her real brother.!~

There are far worse things than having to deal with your ex-boyfriend's little sister or your older brother's ex-girlfriend. But that's something Karada Iokawa and Shoko Nogami have to learn the hard way when a magic wishing stone inexplicably grants Karada's wish to be older - and does it by stealing the years from Shoko! Now Shoko, who's already graduated and studied overseas, is Karada's age, just about to enter junior high school. Meanwhile Karada must suddenly face the real facts about what being grown up entails. And just to make a bizarre situation even more awkward, there's the issue of how to handle their existing romantic interests! 
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1997 MBC Voice Actor in Korea.

*Note: Not to be confused with the [background artist](https://anilist.co/staff/187359).*

Asatte no Houkou follows the lives of Karada Iokawa, a young girl who is set to join junior high school after summer is over, and Sh&#333;ko Nogami, a young woman who has just returned from studying abroad, who also happens to be the former girlfriend of Karada&rsquo;s older brother. 
The day Sh&#333;ko returns, she is dragged by Karada to the beach with her brother and a couple of their friends since she used to know Karada&rsquo;s brother Hiro several years before. After becoming irritated with Hiro for leaving her alone in the United States, she purposefully tells Karada that her ribbons are childish. This upset her greatly because she doesn&rsquo;t like to be treated as a child. 
Later that same day, Karada is found by Sh&#333;ko praying at a shrine, wishing to become older. Amazingly, Karada&rsquo;s wish becomes true and she instantly transforms into a young woman. Incidentally, Sh&#333;ko then has her adulthood taken away from her and she reverts back to about eleven years old. 
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