Through the Panels

Mimi Stokes has two ambitions: leave her small town and become a comic artist. When her father's job relocates the family to a new school in a new country, she is genuinely thrilled — because the people she meets there look exactly like characters from the manga and dramas she has always loved. She starts a comic series based on their lives. To keep the material fresh, she starts involving herself in their personal situations. She tells herself it is for the art. It is clearly also causing problems. Can anyone blame her, really?