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OK... how should I start this...

Well... the story is about a girl(Asako), who lost interest in her daily student life.... who lost her aim, and eventually... found a reason for her to live on...
err...

It started like this... Asako was disillusioned...
so, one day, she started to spring-cleaning her room, she was staying with her mother, parents divored..
she technically moved every single thing out of her room, and left with 4 walls... and she thought that, her mother, who didn't pay much attention to her, would not even notice...
and then, she ended up falling asleep at the entrance of the rubbish dump site.. oh!!! that's the cleanest rubbish dump site that I have seen...

Next day, when she got up, a 10-year-old boy(Kazuyoshi) was looking at her...
then, he picked up the computer that she dumped... according to her, it's not working (apparently, she's a 'baka', didn't even install anything, thought that once the power is on, it'll work)
so, he took it back, and installed the OS and everything else on the computer...
then, she started to skip school... as she couldn't find any reason to attend classes, to carry on with daily monotonous life, and to live on...

One fine afternoon, Asako was standing at the balcony, sticking her head outside.... it's a high-rise apartment...
then, she saw Kazuyoshi standing there, on the ground, looking at her, yep, it looked as if, she wanted to commit suicide...
so, these 2 gathered around and started to talk..

the first thing Kazuyoshi said to her is... "if you're going to kill yourself, can you then, let me grab your breasts"...
Asako, astonished...
Kazuyoshi later explained cool-ly and carefree-ly... "oh, normally this is the type of sentence that will save one's life if the person is trying to commit suicide"
then, Asako told him, she's not trying to end her own life...

Kazuyoshi.... err... I don't know why, he seemed to be a very wise kid, seemed to be able to see through Asako's worry, or rather... disillusion...
so, he offered Asako a deal...
he told her that, he, actually has been working part-time, as one of those adult chat site's 'chatter'...
(well.. u just have to log on to those site and start chatting with those pervert, or lonely men)
and Asako asked him how he got himself such a job, he said, he pretended to be a 25-year-old housewife, and gotto know another housewife, who's working as such 'chatter', so, she 'outsourced' the job to him... and now, he intended to outsource it to Asako, as he claimed, he's to go to school in the morning...

Asako told him, she's even slow in typing sms on the handphone, not to mention computer, so, Kazuyoshi told her, he'll teach her...
so, the main part of the show is... how Asako enjoyed her days, from initially a little bit reluctant, cos, it's porno business... to eventually, she kinda liked it..
as she gotta have a peep into the adult world, and how lonely these people are... some actually are not that 'pervert', they just logged on to find somebody to chitchat...

At the same time, Kazuyoshi was struggling with his new stepmother, he still didn't know how to live with this woman, and one day, the stepmother asked him, if he wanted a younger sister, or younger brother...ie. she's pregnant...
and he didn't know how to response... as he WAS still trying to get a balance to live with this unfamiliar woman...

However... at the end of the show...
Asako accidentally triggered a virus and the whole OS gone..
Kazuyoshi had been 'terminated' his outsource job, as that housewife (that real housewife) decided she doesn't want to continue such job anymore...
but they were paid well.. and 2 of them were splitting the dollars...

After a nearly 1 month of odyssey... Kazuyoshi told Asako, he told his stepmother.. he wanted a younger sister.. (err... if I have not remembered wrongly, but then, this is not the point) the point is... this indicated that he's finally adjusted himself properly and accepted the new life with the stepmother..
and to Asako...
she told him, she's finally going back to school... after this 1 month of part-time job, and after her best friend killed in an accident...
she told him, she finally understood that, even though at this point of time, life seemed to be aimless, and she couldn't foresee where she's going in her life...
but then.... the beauty of living is, to live... only if you live, you can continue to do nothing, you can continue to talk to people, you can continue to have worries, and continue to wonder how your life will end up like...

and Kazuyoshi told her that... when a computer crashes, it doens't mean, it's the end of its life.. u just need to install again, and everything will start from '0'...
so, it seems like both of them, have just had a fresh install...

I liked this film... of course, it's because Ueto Aya is really very cute, as well as the kid, Kamiki Ryunosuke...
but then, the soundtrack is cute too... normally when these 2 were talking, there's this very light piano/keyboard tone coming out in the air... very lightly and very lively...
I liked it, as it's different from other films that I have watched recently, therefore... it's kinda refreshing, and the idea is kinda refreshing too...
The whole setting is pretty simple, it's mainly the interaction between Asako and Kazuyoshi...

However... ya... life is not as simple as that, isn't it?
first of all... it's not easy to really find such person who can be there, at that time, to really help you to install ie. start all over again...
during that event...

But then... this show.. in a way, did give some hope :-)