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Yuichi Hasumi (Hayato Ichihara) is in the 8th grade, and he lives with his mother, her boyfriend and his younger brother in a rural town.
At school he gets picked on, roughed up and abused.
In his suffocating school days, his favorite singer, Lily Chou-Chou was all that matters to him.
He keeps to his room all day long and lives in the Lily Chou-Chou fan site "Lily-philia" which he manages under the screen name "philia".
One day, "philia" encounters another passionate Lily fan, "blue cat" who becomes his close friend.
One year ago, in 1999, when Yuichi was 13.
Yuichi did not know Lily yet.
It's a happy period of his young life.
He's just entered junior high and one of his classmates is Hoshino.
Hoshino was a model student scoring high marks.
Yuichi goes out of his way to strike up a friendship with him and seizes the opportunity when both join the Kendo club.
They joined the final summer training camp, but exhausted from it decide to plan a trip to Okinawa.
They take off for the island and all goes well at the beginning.
But things take a turn for the worse when Hoshino almost drowns.
OFFICIAL SITES
lily's site | official bbs | lilyholic site (jp) | lilyholic site (en)
FAN SPACES
Ç♰ reddit | discord (large) | discord (new !!) | discord (small)
At school he gets picked on, roughed up and abused.
In his suffocating school days, his favorite singer, Lily Chou-Chou was all that matters to him.
He keeps to his room all day long and lives in the Lily Chou-Chou fan site "Lily-philia" which he manages under the screen name "philia".
One day, "philia" encounters another passionate Lily fan, "blue cat" who becomes his close friend.
One year ago, in 1999, when Yuichi was 13.
Yuichi did not know Lily yet.
It's a happy period of his young life.
He's just entered junior high and one of his classmates is Hoshino.
Hoshino was a model student scoring high marks.
Yuichi goes out of his way to strike up a friendship with him and seizes the opportunity when both join the Kendo club.
They joined the final summer training camp, but exhausted from it decide to plan a trip to Okinawa.
They take off for the island and all goes well at the beginning.
But things take a turn for the worse when Hoshino almost drowns.
OFFICIAL SITES
lily's site | official bbs | lilyholic site (jp) | lilyholic site (en)
FAN SPACES
Ç♰ reddit | discord (large) | discord (new !!) | discord (small)
