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Taejung enters high school bursting with creative energy, only to find the art club run like a military unit — rigid hierarchies, frequent hazing, and a suffocating focus on exam-prep art that leaves him disillusioned. Everything changes when he stumbles upon the work of Hayao Miyazaki and befriends Seongha, a passionate anime fan in his class. Through Seongha, Taejung discovers an online animation community, stays up all night chatting with fellow enthusiasts, and attends his first comic convention in Seoul. There, through a cosplayer named Yeonji, he learns that dedicated animation programs actually exist at university. Coming from a broken home with little money, Taejung watches Seongha and Yeonji race ahead at a prestigious prep academy in Hongdae and feels the anxiety closing in — yet he quietly keeps drawing on his own, nurturing his dream alone. Can this boy who desperately wants to escape his bleak circumstances and become "Korea's Miyazaki Hayao" find his place in the brutal realities of the Korean animation industry?
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