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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
2021-09-01 16:23:14
Doesn't have a page yet but Slum Online?
- I pressed the A button and was no longer Etsura Sakagaami. I had become Tetsuo.
PKLpikachu
Since: Apr, 2010

Hey guys, I'm trying to find a fiction book that I read years ago. From what I remember, the plot was set in Japan. The main character is a game otaku who is dangerously close to becoming a hikikomori, and his online handle is Tetsuo. He meets a girl in real life and she is trying to find the Bluebird of Happiness. So, the guy and girl try to find the bluebird together and the guy learns to not be online all the time and appreciate the outside world. I also distinctly remember the first line of the book being "I press the A button, and I'm Tetsuo."
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