Ainosuke Nishi is an onnagata - a male actor who plays female roles within the art form of kabuki theater. He has been raised in this art form, and his whole life has revolved around training and preparing him to perform within it, but though Ainosuke has been acting and performing for a while, he's hit a slump. None of the feedback he's received has been great, and his life outside of his art hasn't been doing so well, either. Due to a violent interaction Ainosuke had with another high school student who sexually harassed him, he was suspended and unable to graduate. This leaves him somewhat lost and listless over everything. But things are a bit disrupted when a new transfer student comes in. The new guy, Ayumu Minorikawa, doesn't seem like anyone special. But he does have a weird fixation on Ainosuke that Ainosuke assumes has to do with how pretty he is. Ayumu's obsession isn't just skin deep, however, and Ayumu just might be the key to Ainosuke's artistic slump.
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