Seishun Protagonist

Everyone is said to be the protagonist of their own life. But how many of us truly live? How many can honestly claim to be the hero of their own story? Set against the everyday backdrop of high school, this tender love story asks that very question at an age when youth is supposed to burn brightest. At the heart of it is a boy who believes, for reasons of his own, that he is incapable of love. As the ordinary rhythms of adolescence unfold around him, he carries the quiet conviction that romance was never meant for him—that he is destined to remain a bystander in a story where everyone else gets to shine. Then a girl in his class falls in love with him. Her sincere feelings press against the wall he has built around his heart, setting off a delicate push and pull between her growing affection and his belief that he cannot return it. Whether he can learn to accept what she offers—and, in doing so, finally step forward as the hero of his own youth—lies at the core of this heartfelt tale.