Belle: The Dragon and the Freckled Princess

Suzu Naito, 17, lives in a country town in Kochi and has not been able to sing since her mother died when she was small. One day she steps into U, a vast virtual world of 5 billion people, and there she gets her voice back as a singer called Belle. While the whole world cheers for Belle, her stage is wrecked by the Dragon, hated and hunted by everyone. Belle follows him to his hidden castle and slowly gets through to him, covered in wounds as he is. Then Suzu learns who the Dragon really is: a boy being beaten by his father. She exposes her own face to reach him.