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In hopes of writing realistic film dialogue, grandma Umiko goes barhopping and clubbing with her young art school classmates!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMotivated by the mysterious young Kai to enter art school and become an aspiring filmmaker, Umiko’s first attempt at a movie gets a less than rousing response from her instructor, who critiques the dialogue she wrote as not reflecting how young people actually talk. Saying that a director needs to strike a balance between their intended vision and what the audience will perceive, he suggests to Umiko that the problem isn’t her objectivity, it’s the 65 year old’s…lack of experience!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInvited to go out drinking by Yamaguchi, a classmate born in a different century, Umiko breaks out of her normal retiree routine, seizing the chance to learn how the youth of today socialize. She may be able to handle her beer and the beat on the club floor…but she gets much more social interaction than she bargained for when she overhears in the restroom Yamaguchi drunkenly confess their love to Kai!\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Tarachine\u003c\/b\u003e (a pen name) was born in 1989 in Hyogo prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan. While at art school, she tried her hand at filmmaking, but realized she was better suited to working alone and decided to pursue manga as a career. After graduating, she set out on a trip around the world, promising herself that she would get a real job if she didn’t make it as a manga artist by the time she was twenty-five. She narrowly met that personal deadline when she made her debut in 2015 with \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGood Night, I Love You\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, a tale of a man who travels to London to fulfill his mother’s dying wish. She followed this up with a manga adaptation of the Netflix series \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSex Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e before tackling fantasy in \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWitch of Thistle Castle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e. She came to feel that she was more interested in drawing shojo manga, however, and when an editor at the shojo magazine \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMystery Bonita\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003ereached out to her about working together, the result was the critically acclaimed \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Credits Roll into the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e. She also draws BL manga under the name John Taratsumi.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJocelyne Allen\u003c\/b\u003e is a Japanese translator and interpreter who splits her time between Toronto and Tokyo. She has translated hundreds of short stories, novels, and manga, including the Eisner Award-winning titles \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLovesickness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e by Junji Ito and \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOnward Toward Our Noble Deaths\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e by Shigeru Mizuki, and the Harvey Award-winning \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Lesbian Experience With Loneliness \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eby Nagata Kabi, as well as the critically acclaimed \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOur Dreams at Dusk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e by Yuhki Kamatani, and the classic shojo manga \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Rose of Versailles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e by Riyoko Ikeda. As an interpreter, she has worked with Japan’s most celebrated authors and artists, including Sayaka Murata, Inio Asano, Mieko Kawakami, and Natsume Ono. 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