All About Lily Chou-Chou

Yuichi is 14-years-old. At school he is a daily victim of bullying and abuse and his life is hell. During this difficult period, the popular singer Lily Chou-Chou is the only thing that matters to him, and only her songs help him to survive. All day long he keeps to his room managing a web fan club on Lily Chou-Chou called “liliphilia.” One day “philia,” (Yuich’s Internet handle) encounters another passionate Lily fan on the site named the “Blue Cat”.... The year before Yuichi had been perfectly happy. He had still never heard of Lily Chou-Chou and he had become friends with Hoshino. They were the best of friends and spent every free moment together. But Hoshino changed over vacation. After beating up and even humiliating the one-time school bully, he becomes the head of his own gang and unbelievably picks out Yuichi as one of his victims. That’s when Yuichi finds Lily Chou- Chou and he draws strength from her. But thanks to Lily Chou-Chou Yuichi meets the meets the Blue Cat, the only one who really understands him. Lily Chou-Chou is giving a concert on December 8, 2000, and Yuichi is understandably very excited. He never dreams that tragedy awaits him.... The films starts off with a Lily Chou-Chou chat site called Lilyholic where fans are hotly discussing the singer. They are trying to decide what affect Lily’s music has on her fans, and they also talk about a case, now several years old, concerning a murdered secondary school student. At the same time one of Lily’s fan sites, “liliphilia,” suddenly stopped working....