Genre Roulette: The genre of Lily's music can be quite tricky to qualify.Before she had gone solo, she was in a band called Philia. Extreme Doormat: Yuichi is so powerless under Hoshino's thumb that he does anything for him: escorting Tsuda to her "assignments," leading his crush to her attack and gang rape, even pathetically giving Hoshino his ticket to Lily's concert before running an errand for him.At one point she even stole her client's wallet. Later she sees nothing wrong with her 'job' as it pays well. Enjo Kosai: Hoshino eventually blackmails Tsuda into becoming this under his 'payroll'.Even worse that when the group had previously met him, he was completely happy and cheerful. Hoshino's drowning was immediately followed by the group witnessing a dead body of a man who committed suicide in the road.Additionally, philia and Blue Cat expressed their suicidal thoughts in the website. Driven to Suicide: Tsuda eventually commits suicide near the end of the film, feeling trapped by Hoshino.The Dog Bites Back: Yuichi eventually takes revenge by stabbing Hoshino at Lily's concert venue.Defiled Forever: After Yuichi's friend confesses his love for Tsuda, she turns him down, casually stating that she's not good enough for him due to her experiences.
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Children Are Innocent: While this movie horribly averts this trope, the characters are shown as still having a little bit of innocence, such as Tsuda innocently and happily enjoying flying a kite as a final good memory before she commits suicide.Celebrity Paradox: Yuichi's friends comments that Hoshino's attractive mother looks very much like actress Izumi Inamori.Cathartic Scream: Hoshino in the rice field, following Tsuda's suicide.She's eventually bullied out of performing in the school recital due to their boycott of her and when they learn she composed the song, they have her attacked, which leads to Hoshino ordering a gang rape of her and her head shaved. Kuno is a normal girl and talented musician bullied for no other reason than her being more attractive and popular with boys than the aggressive Girl Posse.Her experience with flying kites shows she's still an innocent girl at heart which makes her subsequent suicide all the more tragic. Despite feeling trapped, she goes along with it because she has no other choice, eventually resigning herself to having no escape and getting used to her job. Tsuda is a fourteen-year-old girl forced to escort for Hoshino.Hoshino started as a keen academic and kind, normal student known as something of a wimp, but his parents' divorce and a couple of near-death experiences in Okinawa and a disturbing incident involving a man who later commits suicide turns him into a violent, manipulative sadist.Yuichi starts a quiet, shy boy who gets roped into Hoshino's gang after the latter's Start of Darkness, performing dark and humiliating work such as accompanying Tsuda on her escort assignments and being complicit in the attack and gang rape of Kuno, his crush.Break the Cutie: All of the characters started as good-natured people broken down by all the horrifying events of this film.Breakup Breakout: In-universe, Lily Chou-Chou reached considerable success in her solo career more than her forays in her band, Philia.Blackmail: Hoshino took dirty videos of Tsuda and used them as leverage to force her into prostitution.Bittersweet Ending: Tsuda and Hoshino are dead and Yuichi's grades are pathetic, but at least Kuno seems to be bouncing back from her trauma as Yuichi wordlessly watches her play piano.Most of these posts were later lifted to the film as posts written by Lilyphilia users. The original novel's format allowed readers to openly discuss about Lily In-Universe matter. Audience Participation: The original online novel was written in a forum website in the form of posts, similar to the style of the posts in this film.Anachronic Order: The film starts during present day, then it flashes back to events from Hoshino and Yuichi's pasts which leads up to the present day.All of these atrocities the characters done puts this film in the same league as Kids. Adult Fear: This film is riddled with them.Yuichi's own mother doesn't notice a thing. Adults Are Useless: None of the adult characters actually help them, or even aware about the horrifying events happening to the teens, with an exception of their teacher, who helped Yuichi after he got caught shoplifting.Absurdly Youthful Mother: Hoshino's mother, to the point where Yuichi mistakes her as Hoshino's sister.They seemed shocked that he even went through with it. A Date with Rosie Palms: A darker and forced variant, Yuichi's tormentors forced him to do this in front of them, right after breaking his Lily CD.