Weirdly enough, this reminds me quite a bit of Adachi and Shimamura, had they taken a completely different route after high school. Having to bury a large part of yourself and live a life that doesn't really suit you to conform to the ''norms'' really sucks doesn't it (^^) Makes me really grateful that I was able to be myself and do the things I wanted to do for most of my adult life, not everybody is so lucky.