It is based on the manga series of the same name written by Minoru Furuya, serialized in the Weekly Young Magazine between 2008–2010, and republished into six volumes.

The film marks the debut of V6 boyband singer Go Morita in his first starring role in a feature film as the antagonist Soichi Morita, and stars Gaku Hamada as the naive protagonist Okada among a cast of odd characters entrenched amid love triangles and shoddy friendships.

Okada joins Ando at a nearby café to meet his "girlfriend", which turns out to be the waitress Yuka he has a crush on but never confessed to.

The nervous Yuka mentions she fears she is being stalked, including receiving harassing phone calls and her mail disappearing.

The nervous Wagusa meets his girlfriend Kumiko, a coworker, to help him steal the money from his father's business where the two work.

A week before graduation, Morita visited Wagusa at night to tell him "I caught Kawashima," to enact revenge for his years of torment.

This leads to a string of events involving Morita which sees several people dead, and Okada and Yuka's lives in increasing danger.

"[6] Panos Kotzathanasis of AsianMoviePulse commended the effortless genre-blending: "Beginning as a comedy-drama [...] Continuing as a violent thriller [...] Yoshida manages to merge two films into one [...] This transition between the two parts is portrayed through an intricate and very impressive scene.

As Susumu and Yuka have sex, Morita tortures and kills a woman, with the setting switching a number of times and the moves of each “couple” mirror each other in the most unsettling fashion.

"[7] Spanish critic Omar Parra of TerrorWeekend rated it 4.5/5, describing the film "as American Pie meets I Saw the Devil, the premise is inconceivable but I think the director has managed to blend both genres to perfection.

[10] Harris Dang of VCinemaShow praised the chemistry between Hamada and Muro, adding that the "production values are great, especially the music score and the editing.

"[12] Andrew Mack of Screen Anarchy praised the film for its anti-bullying message: "While a lot of western films want to show or capture the shattering effects of bullying at the teen level, few have ever ventured into adulthood like Himeanole has to show how long lasting those effects are.

He admonished the director's foray into the genre, stating that Yoshida "is not at ease in these violent scenes, staged without inventiveness," and rated the film 2/5.