Fictional Back-story
Lily Chou-Chou is portrayed as the stage name of a solo musician, Keiko Suzuki (鈴木圭子, Suzuki Keiko?). She was born on December 8, 1980 at 10:50pm, a fact that fans in the film link to the same time of the murder of Beatles' member John Lennon. She has an official website, Lilyholic, which features as a back-story to the film, including news articles and a discography. The BBS on this website is a crucial feature to the plot of the film. Lily Chou-Chou is portrayed as being extremely successful, with her CDs lining prominent displays in music stores such as Tsutaya.
Lily Chou-Chou was originally the vocalist of the band Philia (フィリア, Firia?), that formed broke up two years after their debut in 1995. This band centred around Katsuro Kayama (加山葛比路, Kayama Katsuro?), who wrote the music for the band. Kayama later lead the major-label band Yellow Fellows (イエロウフェロウズ, Iero Ferōzu?). Lily Chou-Chou wrote the lyrics for the band's songs, though some fans believe they were ghostwritten. The band is described as having number one releases on music charts. The group debuted with the single "Addiction" (アディクション, Adikushon?) on February 21, 1995, which reached number one on the singles charts. The film mentioned the band having an album named Manic & Depressive (マニック&デプレッシヴ, Manikku ando Depuresshivu?), and songs "Abnormality" and "Manic & Depressive." Many of her fans do not like to link Lily Chou-Chou's solo music with Kayama. In the film, when a fan suggested Kayama took part in creating Lily Chou-Chou's solo music, many fans became heated and fought him.
Her fan base is described as being composed of younger people. These fans are described as fanatic, with some of Lily Chou-Chou's detractors likening her to a cult leader. One of her fans even committed suicide in protest of the content of her second album, Kokyū.
Lily Chou-Chou's music is said to have ether, a term used both by Lily Chou-Chou and her fans. She describes ether as the fabric of the universe, and assigns colours to different types of ether (the emotion despair is close to "red" ether, while hope is close to "blue" ether). Lily Chou-Chou also describes the moods of her albums in terms of these colours.
On Lily Chou-Chou's official site are two news articles from a fictional newspaper, Teito Shinbun (帝都新聞?, "Imperial Capital Paper"), describing an incident after a Lily Chou-Chou concert, in which a 15 year old, Shūsuke Hoshino, is apparently crushed to death by fans wanting to see Lily Chou-Chou. Later news puts doubt to this, as a stab wound piercing his heart was discovered during the autopsy. These news reports are direct references to events in the film.
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