Hiroyuki Ohashi

In this realistic view into the manga industry, selling copies is the only thing that matters. So what if your first series just ended and you have no idea how to start the next one, your marriage is breaking up, your pure love of manga has been destroyed by the cruel reality of the industry and nothing seems to fill the sucking void inside you… Find the secret combo for a new hit manga series and everything will be okay. Right?

Cinco historias vagamente conectadas sobre los secretos y las mentiras, los miedos y las lágrimas, y los chistes pueriles que marcan los encuentros diarios (y en un caso espeluznante, nocturnos) de los personajes.

Cuando eres un adolescente aburrido que busca emociones, a veces lo único a lo que puedes recurrir es el rock 'n roll. Sin habilidad, dinero o incluso un set completo de batería, un temido trío de delincuentes de la escuela secundaria, deciden que están destinados a la gloria musical en una búsqueda para impresionar a su única amiga Aya, evitar una pandilla rival y, lo más importante, improvisar.

Arakawa Ao lives happily on his own and hardly ever leaves Shimokitazawa, where he works at a vintage clothing shop, goes to occasional concerts and hangs out at his favorite bar. Then, he gets an unusual request to appear in an independent film.

Nobuhiro Yamashita shoots the adaption of the City Lights manga by Hiroyuki Ohashi with three members of the Nogizaka46 idol pop band. The story is told on three levels: Documentary-style on-set where we see the film being made and the idols struggling with their roles, the resulting movie which revolves around three girls in a psychic research club discovering a classmate with super powers who turns out to be an alien and a stage adaptation of the film with the same characters.