Amano Manako (Matsuyuki Yasuko) is a professor at a top university’s faculty of engineering. She is currently researching the science of failure. Her studies are not to examine the responsibility for failure, but to determine direct, situational and social factors, and turn it into knowledge to help prevent a recurrence. There are always some mistakes in the various types of accidents that occur daily and accident investigation is the best fieldwork for Manako. This activity goes beyond the boundaries of engineering and she follows wherever her curiosity takes her. Her conviction is that “Growth and progress always accompany failure”. Manako loves mistakes and because her eyes sparkle at stories of failure, this irritates other people. However, she is able to arrive at the truth of an accident through the database of failures from all ages and cultures that she has internalised. |