A prequel to the original story, Our Light Club, was serialized in Ohta Publishing's online pocopoco magazine between April 2011 and March 2012.

Written and illustrated by Usamaru Furuya, Lychee Light Club is loosely based upon a 1985 play of the same name directed by Norimizu Ameya for the theatrical group Tokyo Grand Guignol.

[3] Called Our Light Club (ぼくらの☆ひかりクラブ, Bokurano☆Hikari Kurabu), it was serialized in Ohta Publishing's online pocopoco magazine between April 15, 2011 and March 15, 2012.

[18] The series was made available online by Crunchyroll in the English-speaking regions of North America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

[19] During a 2011 panel at Comic-Con, Carlo Santos of Anime News Network elected it one of the best manga of the year, calling it "foul, disgusting, and wonderful".

[22] Another play, this time directed by Masahiko Kawahara and written by Maruichirō Maruo, ran at 2.5 AiiA Theater Tokyo between December 18 and 27, 2015.

[28] Their first live performance was at Tokyo Kinema Club on December 30, 2011 and it was released in DVD format on June 26, 2012 under the title of Haikyo no Oto Gakkai (廃墟の音樂会).

[4] They performed again at Tokyo Kinema Club, this time along with Machine, on December 30, 2012 and its DVD, Haikyo no Kyōen: Aube (廃墟の狂宴 -aube-), was released on March 21, 2013.

What can be highlighted, in her opinion, is the art direction and production design; the film setting has cityscapes "that Philip K. Dick would be proud of".

[35] The Japan Times critic Mark Schilling described it "as if the Marquis de Sade had penned Peter Pan" because of is horror elements.

Indeed, "just when the film is becoming a mash-up of Beauty and the Beast and Pinocchio, with [Lychee] fulfilling his dream of love and manhood, twists multiply and the pace quickens.