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Reserved Seat is a very interesting tale of death, possession, rock and stardom. Masahiko hated to go to Takarazuka Concerts with his grandmother who recently passed away.
It turns out Masahiko hated his grandmother just as much as the Takarazuka shows, and maybe more so. Masahiko goes to his grandmother's funeral dressed in drag and flips her picture the bird and leaves for practice. But when he gets their he is forced to grieve anyway, because his band mates want to replace him as lead singer.
Masahiko's band mates want to hold a contest amongst the other members to see if anyone of them are good enough to possibly replace Masahiko, Masahiko was invited to compete, but never appears. Though determined to make it to the rehearsal he never shows up and he cannot remember why. But later on that day he sees himself on TV with a nun at a Takarazuka Concert. And after this incident it seems every time a Takarazuka Concert is scheduled, Masahiko finds programs and cannot figure out how he has no recollection of attending these performances.
One of Mashahiko's band mates thinks it has something to do with his blatant disrespect for his grandmother's death that has brought about these recent occurrences. While his other band mates think he is just ignoring them and going insane. Either way Masahiko aims to fight his appearances at the Takarazuka musicals.
Miyamoto, a Kendo artist, has an overbearing sensei that thinks Miyamoto can be the best Kendo artist ever. In fact Miyamoto's sensei is so obsessive he drives Miyamoto to quit. Miyamoto's girlfriend Ichiyanagi picks him up and they head home. But the obsessed Sensei will not relent and is hot on Miyamoto's trail, and he hops on a bike with no breaks and causes an accident which results in he and Ichiyanagi dying. While Ichiniyagi's body is recovered the coaches body cannot be found.
While Miyamoto grieves over Ichiyanagi she awakes. But not as Ichiyanagi, the coach has taken residence in Ichinayagi's body and the only way Miyamoto can get Ichinayagi's spirit back into her body is to defeat the coach at a Kendo match, which must be done quickly before Ichinayagi's sprit disappears forever.
Hinako a high school student has asked her friend to help her raise money to find her long lost mother, who was thought to be dead until a postcard revealed otherwise. Obi a male student from her class follows her to the red light district of Shinjuku where it is believed Hinako's mother resides. He find her walking arm and arm with an older man and immediately assumes the worse, but it turns out the man is a Private Investigator who intends to steal Hinaoko's money, but after a little persuasion from Obi, decides to help the two teens search for Hinaoko's mother.
Yahihata Agricultural High School's rugby team has lost 999 straight games and after the 1000th game if they loose the team will be disbanded. And while the rest of the school has accepted the fact that their rugby team is a bunch of losers, one student feels that the team can win. And her words of comfort and support are heard at every game, she is known as the Goddess of Victory, and proudly cheers her team on too bad only one student, named Kanago, can hear her.