You are living inside a dream.
You love someone, you are loved by someone, and in doing so, you live as a “human being.”
But I am different.
I have awakened.
The moment I realized that I could no longer be human, I still found myself chasing the happiness of being one.
Can you imagine the unbearable sorrow of wanting something you have already lost the right to possess?
There is a loneliness I could never tell anyone about.
But I want to tell it to you.
A nameless being, stranded on the boundary between dream and reality, carries with him “the illness called me” and continues to live.
This is his confession—
a story of a prayer that could not even become love.
The confession of a nameless being who was born an “outsider,” a “freak,” from the very beginning.
Awakening of “The Neither Side” in Boundary Between Dreams and Reality. is a long-form independent work by MASAMUNE KITANO, blending manga, illustration, literary prose, philosophical monologue, and surreal imagery into a single narrative.

Original Japanese edition: 『夢と現の境界 – 人間性を喪失した少年の告白　完全版』:
▷I — ILLUSTRATION GALLERY
Original illustrations drawn specially for this edition

II — MAIN STORY

THE ILLNESS CALLED ME
THE ARCHENEMY
THE ESCAPE
THE SINNER OF THE WILDERNESS
THE PLAY OF FICTION
HURRY, WORLD!!!
CONFESSION

III — SUPPLEMENT / AFTERWORD
For those Born and Dying Every Day
Newly written for this edition

IV — APPENDIX / SPECIAL FEATURE
The Beast Who DreamsAwakening of “The Neither Side” in Boundary Between Dreams and Reality.
Complete English Edition
241 pages
Electronic Edition
Written & Illustrated by MASAMUNE KITANO
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