"Pain can take you in prison. The ether can set you free."
Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationship against the backdrop of Yūichi's love for the dreamy and abstract music of pop star Lily Chou-Chou.
Yūichi Hasumi
Shūsuke Hoshino
Shiori Tsuda
Yōko Kuno
Ikeda Senpai
Terawaki Shioske
Tabito Takao
Masashi Tadano
Sumika Kanzaki
Kentarō Sasaki
Shizuko Hasumi
Izumi Hoshino
Shimabukuro
Noriko Izawa
School Nurse
Teru Onda
Masumi Shōji
Otaku
School Nurse
Retsuya Inubushi
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