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In a society dominated by the internet and the virtual realm, amidst discussions on issues like child exploitation and bullying, there lies an underlying conflict: the struggle between a young girl and her mother.
Setsuna, the protagonist when she was 10 year-old, she was a junior idol.
Feeling like a failure both at school and the agency, Setsuna escapes into ‘dream novels,’ a genre of online literature in which readers insert their own names and experience the stories as the protagonist. Setsuna intentionally leaves her name blank, reading the stories as ##NAME##.
When Setsuna is 20 year-old, she continues to be haunted by her past even as a university student, with her name constantly searched online, disrupting her student life and part-time job. The discord with her mother, the daily interactions with her sole friend, Misano... She remains unable to escape the traumas of her past, and Kodama delicately captures the intricately swaying emotions, portraying a poignant cry that cannot be neatly summed up with simplistic terms like "modern darkness" or "past mistakes."
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