Placebo Club

Oka-chan, a girl in her second year of middle school, will obviously have her surroundings and the people around her change as she grows up. She'll feel as lonely as if she had been left behind, and experience the pain of wanting to understand her friends, but being unable to do so. She may even become unable to laugh and smile along with her close childhood friends the way she used to. She'll begin to think to herself, "I'm so plain and ordinary, but I'd like to be treated as if I'm special. But in the end, I know I can't. So if I had a box, I'd like to just crawl inside of it and fall asleep... And then be blasted off to some place that no one knows about on the edge of the universe." This is a masterful work that gathers up everything experienced during adolescence: from those things you want to remember time and time again, to those things you'd rather forget.