Hotaru ni naxtu ta ano hi
Native title: ホタルになったあの日
Translated title: The Day I Became a Firefly
Author: Tomukai, Ryosuke
Genre: Mystery / Family Saga
Year: 2024 | Pages: 105 | Origin: JAP | BA Seq Num: 88618
'I have dreams, I have things I want to do. But they can't come true now. So...'
The story begins one evening. A young man is walking through a nearby park after dinner.
A fortune teller suddenly appears in the park and predicts how much time he has left to live.
The young man is skeptical and refuses to listen, but as he goes about his daily life, he encounters countless events that make him wonder if he really is going to die.
What kind of mark will the young man, who has come to terms with his own death, leave behind in his final moments?
Muzin eki de kimi wo ma xtu te iru
Translated title: Waiting for You at the Unmanned Station
Author: Inu, Zyun
Genre: Romance
Year: 2023 | Pages: 416 | Origin: JAP | BA Seq Num: 85519
A heartbreaking yet heartwarming final reunion between a best friend, a lover, a father or a mother. Shizuoka Prefecture is home to a quiet, unmanned train station overlooking Lake Hamana. There's a mysterious legend there. 'I want to see you.'
On a cloudless, clear day, as the orange sunset washes over you, you sit on a bench and fervently wish for a reunion with a deceased loved one whom you'll never see again. Eventually, that loved one will step off the train as it arrives...!?
This long-awaited paperback edition includes a newly written story! This miraculous story will bring you to tears!
Mayonaka no tazune bi to
Translated title: Midnight Visitor
Author: Tunekawa, Koutarou
Genre: Horror
Year: 2023 | Pages: 336 | Origin: JAP | BA Seq Num: 85565
Aki is a young girl orphaned by the earthquake who has lost her ability to speak. While moving from one vacant house to another, she meets an old fortune teller and they end up living together. The old woman calls the girl an 'angel' and asks her to retrieve something that has been sealed in a cave in a rock.
When Aki arrives at a place in her search, she hears the voices of the dead... Disasters, accidents, and unfathomable malice suddenly shatter her peaceful days. Aki, who has grown into a detective searching for people, leads her on a modern-day tale of those who are swallowed up in the middle of the night
Hakusen Igai, Fundara Out
Native title: 白線以外、踏んだらアウト
Translated title: If You Step on Anything Other Than the White Line, You're Out
Author: Tamaru, Masatomo
Genre: Short Stories / Mystery
Year: 2024 | Pages: 228 | Origin: JAP | BA Seq Num: 88613
'If you step off the white line on the road, you will die', 'If you write the character 'person' three times on the palm of your hand and drink it, you will be relieved of tension', 'If you drop your food, it will be fine as long as you pick it up within three seconds', 'Ouch, ouch, go away', and other situations that everyone has probably heard somewhere are boldly arranged by modern short story master Masatomo Tamaru! The stories go from familiar settings to unexpected endings. A total of 10 fascinating short stories that will take you to a mysterious world in just 10 minutes per episode!
Tubame ha modo xtu te ko nai
Native title: 燕は戻ってこない
Translated title: The Swallows Won't Come Back
Author: Kirino, Natuo
Genre: Social Novel
Year: 2024 | Pages: 472 | Origin: JAP | BA Seq Num: 88599
This body is civilization's last tool.
29 years old, female, single, from the countryside, working part-time.
She traded her uterus, freedom, and dignity to a complete stranger and became a 'surrogate mother' in Tokyo. Riki, a 29-year-old woman, quit her job as a caregiver in Hokkaido and took a dream job as a hospital administrator in Tokyo, but her part-time employment has left her in dire straits. Her coworker, Teru, encouraged her to donate eggs, promising a good side income. Though hesitant, she visits the Japanese branch of Plante, an American reproductive medicine clinic, where she is approached about surrogacy, a practice not permitted in Japan.
Winner of the 64th Mainichi Art Award.
Winner of the 57th Yoshikawa Eiji Literary Award
Yamamoto noriaki tanpen syuu
Translated title: The Demotion of King Enma
Author: Yamamoto, Noriaki
Genre: Short Stories
Year: 2023 | Pages: 112 | Origin: JAP | BA Seq Num: 85567
Short Stories
Toppa-ya - keishichososanika Gorai Taro
Translated title: Breakthrough Shop
Author: Higashino, Keigo
Genre: Crime
Year: 2023 | Pages: 460 | Origin: JAP | BA Seq Num: 85515
An anonymous tip comes in to Taro Gorai, a detective in the Fourth Intelligent Crimes Investigation Section 3 of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Second Investigation Division, known as the 'breakthrough specialist.' He
stakes out a restaurant and discovers a dinner party between a Ministry of Land Transport official and a construction contractor.
Could it be that information about bidding for a national-scale public works project is being leaked to a specific contractor?
The two parties continue their secret meetings, but the evidence of bribery is cleverly concealed.
After an incredibly painstaking investigation, the tense moment arrives when they finally catch the collusion between government and private sectors in the act! This is a classic police novel!
Magagoto
Translated title: Calamity - Metropolitan Police Department
Author: Naitou, Ryou
Genre: Crime
Year: 2023 | Pages: 240 | Origin: JAP | BA Seq Num: 85544
Don't peek into the underbelly of everyday life.
A ten-pronged suicide by disembowelment, the mysterious death of the Prime Minister in Nagatacho - the reasons remain hidden.
The police team covering up the supernatural faces its greatest crisis.
How long can they keep it a secret? A man-slasher with tuna The Metropolitan Police Department's secret department, the Supernatural Ability Processing Unit.
The job of young psychic Yasuda Rei is to cover up supernatural incidents. After receiving a warning from a headless corpse, he sets out with his ghostly superior, Superintendent Orihara, to clean up a "cursed place." Furthermore, a three-headed dog attacks a politician.
The backgrounds of the members of the Supernatural Ability Processing Unit are gradually revealed in the third installment of the hugely popular police x supernatural mystery!
On'na to otoko, soshite koroshi-ya
Native title: 女と男、そして殺し屋
Translated title: Women, Men, and Assassins
Author: Isimoti, Senkai
Genre: Mystery
Year: 2024 | Pages: 272 | Origin: JAP | BA Seq Num: 88596
Tomizawa Masaru and Konoike Tomoe are business-like, stable, and reliable part-time hitmen. Though they are unaware of each other's existence, they share a habit of being unable to help but deduce the reasoning behind their targets' strange behavior. As they delve deeper into the mysteries of the jobs they each receive, their lines of deduction, which should never have crossed paths, lead to a shocking truth. This is a unique collection of short and medium-length mystery stories in which hitmen rush to solve the mysteries of everyday life
Mizumi
Native title: 水脈
Translated title: Water Vein
Author: Shun, Ioka
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Year: 2024 | Pages: 360 | Origin: JAP | BA Seq Num: 88602
The reckless detective duo, Makabe and Miyashita, first appeared in 'Tsuru' (Tokuma Bunko). Since then, the pair have gained popularity, and,
unusually for my work, their characters have taken on a life of their own, appearing in various works across publishers . (The total number of works in which they have made even a passing appearance exceeds 800,000 copies.)
The duo returns as the 'protagonists' in this new work, 'Mizumine'. And, as someone who doesn't write series, this marks my first attempt at a 'sequel'.
This time, while caring for the 'burden' of a returnee from an elite family, they take on an unknown darkness. Will they solve the case or destroy it?
