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The story moves between two stretches of Yukina Ishida's life: the childhood years she spent modelling for an idol agency, and 2017, when she has left that work behind and is at university. Swimsuit shoots of young girls and the adults running them are shown plainly, yet what weighs on her most is ordinary: pushy parents and classmates who pick on her. In her early teens she escapes into online fan fiction about a boys' manga, where readers can type in their own name; she always leaves it blank and drifts through the stories as a placeholder. Her other refuge is Misano, an older, headstrong star who is always gentle with her and alone calls her Yuki instead of Setsuna. Outsiders now label that whole past as dark, a verdict Yukina does not accept.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

161 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Japan

First published

2023 by Kawade Shobo Shinsha

Author's age

30 when first published

ISBN

9784309031279 (original)