The Essence of Being a Muse, Vol. 1

Twenty-three-year-old art school reject Miyuu Seno has a blue print for the future, but it"™s not her own. Instead, she"™s stuck on the "secure"path her mom has laid out for her"”from her office job, to her clothes, to the guys she meets"”and it"™s making Miyuu more miserable by the day. When things come to a head between them, Miyuu leaves home with a blank canvas in tow, holding on to the hope that painting can somehow undo the phony she"™s become"¦