The characters are a bunch of young people lost in life, people with suicidal, depressive or criminal tendencies, each one with a different vision of life and how to face their problems and concerns. Their psychological depth is very well captured despite the short space in which we get to know them. As they are intertwined, sometimes almost tangentially, in each other's stories, we see other sides of their personalities, other sides of the story they have told us from their perspective. The approach that Asano takes to a story is interesting, because in the end we judge others by their actions and ourselves by our intentions. Asano tries to break this by showing us a multi-faceted prism, a three-dimensional story.
The manga's setting plays very much in favor of its themes. The setting is one of these newly built but lifeless residential neighborhoods, commuter towns whose streets are empty even on a Sunday afternoon, a day that families spend at the nearest shopping mall. The empty scenarios, absences emphasized by the great amount of light that illuminates the neighborhood and leaves nothing to the imagination, exposes the anxieties and anguish of its inhabitants, naked before the absolute clarity of the day. It is possible that in such a fragmented and hollow community nothing really makes sense, because the loneliness felt is even deeper than that of a hermit who isolates himself by choice. No matter how bright your home is, you will always be cold without the warmth of the community you desperately seek without even realizing it.
