Inio is Japan's answer to Terry Moore (STRANGERS IN PARADISE, ECHO) as he nails the humour of conversation between friends without ever making you feel you, the reader, are on the outside looking in. Until the last song, their creative catharsis will wrench your heart strings. Even more directionless than before, Meiko and her and Naruo's friends soldier on with the band, only with the Meiko filling Naruo's shoes on guitar and vocals. But before Naruo has a chance to begin life anew as a grown up he crashes his scooter and dies, a Peter Pan with no regrets. So he follows suit and quits his job to take his hibernating student band into the recording studio for a final attempt at making an impact. Her somewhat rash decision pushes her boyfriend Naruo into a crisis point. A call to arms for her friends to pick up the fading fragments of their childhood dreams and give them one last chance before the spark is drummed out of them forever. So in a desperate attempt to stave off responsibility one more time she quits her job, sending a ripple through the lives of those close to her. She doesn't feel life has dealt her a duff hand, it's more a case of her not quite ready to take that last step into adulthood. What was once just her part-time job, is now full-time and just as comfortably numbing. Meiko graduated from university two years ago and found herself on autopilot.
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