Akina Saegusa's Love Secretly Echoes in the After-School Music Room

Behind his sleepy eyes and "everything's a pain" attitude, high schooler Saegusa Akina hides a secret: he's a VTuber with 580,000 subscribers. Burned once by a girlfriend who called his passion "creepy," he's sworn off real-life connections, keeping the world at arm's length—except for his childhood friend and fellow VTuber, Yuuhi Ririka, whose feelings for him run deeper than he's willing to admit. Numb to the so-called "peak youth" unfolding around him, Akina drifts through school and stream