[DeepL Translation - needs review] I was the one who had fallen. It was Icchan who saved me - a clumsy, sensitive ray of light. Yuji Toda, an honor student with high expectations for his future, had a good friend in his childhood. He used to call him "Icchan," but he was now recognized as a problem child at school. They had stopped dating before long, but one day at school, Yuji unintentionally called him "Icchan," and their relationship resumed....
(Translator: DeepL)
A good, surprisingly atmospheric one-shot
Isagi-Kojima follows 戸田裕司 (とだ・ゆうじ) an honors student tired of his life who's still haunted by a childhood accident; one day at school he runs into an estranged childhood friend of his, いっちゃん, and the two gradually begin to reconnect. The premise is fairly simple, but I thought the execution was really well done in terms of showing 裕司 and いっちゃん's differing (but strangely compatible) worldviews. 裕司's inner thoughts and monologues are often broken over several lines, and the art style and atmospher