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This is a review of the whole three-chapter series. This is a short educational drama about a fictional young women who is 無戸籍 and whose mother, a survivor of domestic abuse, in turn neglected/abused her. She lives in the underground cabaret world and has a romance with a kindly librarian... until he wants to get married, which she can't do. Although she tries to run away again, those plans get complicated when she realizes that she's pregnant.
I had heard about cases of people in other countries who essentially grew up in a cult struggling to prove their existence to the government, but I hadn't heard about 戸籍 issues specifically and how Japan's antiquated family laws can cause problems. In this case, the main character's mother hadn't gotten a divorce from her abusive husband and was deathly afraid of him finding out where she was, and because they were legally married, she couldn't get a birth record without notifying him as the presumptive father.
In this case, the main character gets a happy ending... but there is the overhanging feeling that she got lucky with her circumstances, and that the road could have been even more difficult.