My Idol Is Being Accused

A Japanese bestseller — a dynamic novel for those who are into Korean culture and K-pop.

High school student Akari lives with several medical diagnoses: she often feels unwell, schoolwork comes with huge effort, and at her part-time job at a snack bar she can’t even keep in memory even a simple sequence of actions. But something enters her life that suddenly makes everything else secondary — her idol.

She goes to his concerts and performances, gathers any information about him from the internet, magazines, radio, and television, and buys posters and photos. Akari doesn’t dream of meeting him in person: what matters more to her is something else — to try to “see the world through his eyes,” to understand it and interpret it in her own way, even though she doubts it’s even possible. When it becomes known that her idol assaulted a fan and found himself at the center of universal condemnation, Akari still decides to stay on his side — “in sickness and in health.” But will she be able to truly understand him — and will this obsession help her understand herself better?