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The first half of the book is made up by the titular story, a serial killer thriller that gets all kinds of meta and crazy as it progresses. The second half of the book consists of a short interview with Kago (and Ryuichi Kasumi, a Japanese crime fiction writer) and a number of short stories. (from Caterpillar).
The year is 2150, and humanity has entered the Space Age of Exploration. The largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter, in particular is a treasure trove of natural resources. Seeking those resources, humanity has built up numerous biospheres in its vicinity.Those who are born in zero gravity in the Jupiter Zone are known as "Jupiterians". Rico Alberoni is one such person. He lives on Callisto, Jupiter's fourth moon. For him each day was a torment — bullied at school for his peculiar Jupiterian constitution and poked and prodded like a guinea pig at the lab.Until one day he met a man who makes his living recovering wrecked spaceships, a "salvager" named Reiji...This is a story about a boy who couldn't seize today cutting his own path into the unknowable tomorrow. This is an outer space frontier tale for a new generation!
Everyone who lives there has a “reason” for doing so. Towards the end of the Taisho era (1912 - 1926), Fuji, a translator, moves into “Kaika Apartment” - a luxurious housing complex overflowing with elegance. Little does he know that the residents there all harbor secrets…but what are they? And, does Fuji have a secret of his own...? Peculiar tales of an apartment complex filled to bursting with bewitching, intertwining human relationships.
Sequel to Kindaichi Kindaichi (frequently with best-bud, Miyuki) travels to various places where a murder has taken place, typically involving ghosts, curses, myths and folklore of significant events from the distant past, and solves the mystery using ingenious deductions of curious clues and his cool magic.
Ben Radford thought Kay Napier was a fortune hunter, out to get the Endacott family fortune by posing as the long lost Kimberley Endacott. Kay just wanted to know whether or not her recently deceased mother was a kidnapper. Will the two find the answer, as well as love?
A spin-off of the original Doraemon series. But with a different turn. Here Nobita meets various of Doraemon's robo-cat friends and go on many shounen style action adventures with them through The Mystical World, Nostradamus Prophecy , Secret of Cleopatra and more!
Summoned to Adra Castle with his apprentice Gray, Lord El-Melloi II, also known as Waver Velvet, seeks to claim his inheritance, but finds himself among other potential heirs, including Luviagelita Edelfelt. In order to determine the new owner of the castle as per the previous owner's will, all participants must engage in a devious competition.
Ever since she was young, Eva Ushiromiya has worked tirelessly to prove herself as the ideal successor to the Ushiromiya family headship. Despite facing endless discrimination as a woman, she is determined to overcome the odds and surpass her older brother Krauss, who is set to inherit the position by way of birthright. An opportunity to realize her dream comes at the annual conference on the island of Rokkenjima. With the announcement of the epitaph's riddle, Eva believes that finding the hidden gold will force the rest of the family members to acknowledge her. However, as the adults of the Ushiromiya family decipher the puzzle, a string of unexplained murders ensues, forewarning the unfortunate fate that awaits them in the end. Meanwhile, the game board between the Golden Witch Beatrice and Battler Ushiromiya commences once more—bringing new yet unlikely accomplices to participate in the duel.
Coerced into a covert mission, Leon, a distinguished soldier from Europe's militaristic society, was responsible for retrieving an ominous weapon named Tsugumi from the barren Japanese wasteland that had been abandoned for over two centuries. The weapon's destructive potential was so catastrophic that the planet preferred to bomb the archipelago atomically than see it deployed. Regrettably, their efforts were stymied when their aircraft crashed, leaving Leon stranded in Tokyo Bay, alone and vulnerable. Hunger plagued him, and his energy diminished, yet all he had for protection was a single anti-radiation suit. Much to his amazement, he discovered that the city had more life than he had imagined.
Akane Ninamori, a high school student, extends an invitation to investigate rumors of haunted places around their town to Fujino Amemura, a transfer student. Their adventure leads them through a maze of winding pathways and staircases where they unravel the origins of the creepy tales and form a robust bond of friendship.
“Please keep in mind. This shop is not responsible for any harm caused by the electronic device.” A mystery horror about the strange electronics shop owner, ‘Yak’.
Mihama Academy - on the surface, a closed learning environment established to nurture students who find themselves at odds with the world around them; in actuality, an orchard-cum-prison built to preserve fruit that has fallen too far from its tree. Whatever the circumstances behind its establishment, Mihama Academy is at present home to five female students, all with their own reasons for "enrollment." For better or worse, each girl has established a routine obliging of her current situation; life moves at an idle, yet accommodating pace within the walls of Mihama. Yet with the arrival of the institute's first male student, the nearly preposterously opaque Kazami Yuuji, the students at Mihama begin to fall out of step with their predetermined rhythms. Will Yuuji prove to be the element the girls around him needed to take hold of their lives once more, or will the weight of their pasts prove too steep a wall to overcome? And in the first place, just who is Kazami Yuuji? While the true nature of the "job" he is wont to alight to at the most haphazard of moments remains shrouded in secrecy, one thing is for certain - his encroachment upon the quiet orchard known as Mihama Academy will prove itself momentous in one way or another. And of course, one cannot discount the possibility that perhaps Yuuji himself carries the weightiest past of any of the students...
