Hasumi, the confused and shy former friend of Hoshino, finds himself sucked into his now-tormentor's gang. An alternative voice, that of the character Sumika Kanzaki, attributes Hoshino's personality change to the collapse of his family's business and his parent's divorce this matches several scenes connecting the decline of Hoshino вЂ“ who has had to change his name вЂ“ to divorce. Back at school in September for second term, he takes his place as class bully and shows his newfound power by ruining the lives of his classmates.

Once there, Hoshino has a traumatic near-death experience and his personality changes from good-natured to dangerous and manipulative. The kendo club summer camp training is tough, and Hoshino, Hasumi and some other first-grade boys decide to take a trip to Okinawa. Hasumi mistakes Hoshino's attractive young mother for his sister. Hoshino's family is wealthy in comparison to Hasumi's family. Hoshino and Hasumi meet and become friends when they join the kendo club, and Hoshino invites Hasumi to stay over at his house. In elementary school, Hoshino was one of the best students in school, but was picked on by his classmates. The film has a discontinuous storyline, starting midway through the story, just after the second term of junior high school begins, then flashes back to the first term and summer vacation, and then skips back to the present.

All About Lily Chou-Chou follows two boys, Shuusuke Hoshino and Yuichi Hasumi, from the start of junior middle school when they first meet, and into second grade.

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