Yuichi starts a quiet, shy boy who gets roped into Hoshino's gang after the latter's Start of Darkness, performing dark and humiliating work such as accompanying Tsuda on her escort assignments and being complicit in the attack and gang rape of Kuno, his crush.Break the Cutie: All of the characters started as good-natured people broken down by all the horrifying events of this film.Breakup Breakout: In-universe, Lily Chou-Chou reached considerable success in her solo career more than her forays in her band, Philia.Blackmail: Hoshino took dirty videos of Tsuda and used them as leverage to force her into prostitution.Bittersweet Ending: Tsuda and Hoshino are dead and Yuichi's grades are pathetic, but at least Kuno seems to be bouncing back from her trauma as Yuichi wordlessly watches her play piano.Most of these posts were later lifted to the film as posts written by Lilyphilia users. The original novel's format allowed readers to openly discuss about Lily In-Universe matter. Audience Participation: The original online novel was written in a forum website in the form of posts, similar to the style of the posts in this film.Anachronic Order: The film starts during present day, then it flashes back to events from Hoshino and Yuichi's pasts which leads up to the present day.All of these atrocities the characters done puts this film in the same league as Kids. Adult Fear: This film is riddled with them.Yuichi's own mother doesn't notice a thing. Adults Are Useless: None of the adult characters actually help them, or even aware about the horrifying events happening to the teens, with an exception of their teacher, who helped Yuichi after he got caught shoplifting.Absurdly Youthful Mother: Hoshino's mother, to the point where Yuichi mistakes her as Hoshino's sister.They seemed shocked that he even went through with it. A Date with Rosie Palms: A darker and forced variant, Yuichi's tormentors forced him to do this in front of them, right after breaking his Lily CD.

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