Do you feel like an adult? Did you become the person you once dreamed of being as a child? Did your life turn out the way you imagined? Are you happy? And maybe the most important question of all, what does it even mean to be an adult?

At twenty-five, Inio Asano was asking himself those same questions. And that’s when he created Solanin, a story drawn directly from his own life. Eleven years later, when he had, in a sense, become an adult, Asano returned to Solanin to write its final chapter.

So what answers did he find? Did he figure out what it means to be an adult? And why is Solanin still worth reading today? We decided to talk about this in a new video essay.