The story quickly progresses into Yozo’s high school years, when he is befriended by Horiki, who Yozo believes is truly what he has spent his life pretending to be, a friendly and shiftless clown. Then readers get the story of Yozo’s life, starting with a few pages showing him as a child and middle school student, behaving like a class clown in order to get people to like him. Furuya proceeds to read the diary that goes with those images, to learn how Yozo fell so far so quickly. He’s trying, and failing, to think up an idea for his next serial when he suddenly gets an anonymous email pointing him to an online “ouch diary.” The website contains three images: one of 6-year-old Yozo posing with his family while wearing a wide fake smile one of Yozo at age 25, his expression lifeless and worn down and one of Yozo at age 17, cool and handsome. The volume begins with Usamaru Furuya as a character in his own manga. It has a lot of the same characters and a lot of the same events, but also enough important changes that the impact of certain familiar scenes and characters is completely different. However, in reality it’s more like a work inspired by Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human. This is technically the first volume of a manga adaptation of Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human.
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