I Got Permission to Leave Work for Depression, Lied to My Girlfriend About Taking a Long Business Trip, and Went on a 1-Month Journey

The one-shot is about the protagonist's goal of going North on his scooter, and Aso said that the story is "90% a story of my own personal experience." The manga is Aso's first to be published in Young Magazine.

The manga is the seventh one-shot published as part of Weekly Young Magazine's 35th anniversary BULLET project. The project is publishing 35 one-shots over a one-year period.