Team Gaji – What Does the Fox Say
A new assistant at a mobile game developer studio and her team manager initiate a relationship, that will clash with the manager’s complicated relationship with her first love, the CEO of the company.
Author: amy
reviews about books, manga series, comics
Yann Martel – Life of Pi
It’s a test of faith when a young man is stranded on a boat with a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena… and a Bengal tiger for 227 days.
John Ajvide Lindqvist – Handling the Undead
What would you do if your loved ones passed away and suddenly awoke to be… undead?
Diana McLellan – The Girls – Sappho Goes to Hollywood
Author Diana McLellan – a writer for the Washington Post, hence… journalist? – states that Garbo and Dietrich met on set of The Joyless Street and that they had a fling that ended so bad that it would define the rest of their lives.
Yu Aoi – Uso.
Presented in a Yu-Aoi-faced hardcover book of six pop-up art pieces, Uso. — or Lie. — is just a simple pop-up book that highlights the team behind the project, instead of the idol.
Haruki Murakami – Sputnik Sweetheart
Otherwise known as SUPU-TONIKU no Koibito, Sputnik, mi Amor, or Sputnik Sweetheart, it tells the story of three people: the narrator, a primary school teacher who is in love with Sumire — a young woman trying to become a novelist — who falls in love with a married older woman named Myu, who is unable to love her back.
Haruki Murakami – Norwegian Wood (Tokio Blues)
Norwegian Wood (or Tokio Blues, in Spanish) tells the non-chronological story of Watanabe Toru, who remembers Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend in high school, who ended up killing himself. It deals with the aftermath of the suicide and their lives pre- and post-suicide.
Benjamin Lacomb – Les Amants Papillon
Les Amants Papillons is an illustrated book loosely based on the famous Chinese (tragic) legend about two lovers that can’t be together.
Haruki Murakami – South of the Border, West of the Sun
Al Sur de la Frontera, al Oeste del Sol tells the story of Hajime, who meets with a childhood friend he hasn’t seen in the last 25 years. Her name is Shimamoto, and Hajime is contemplating leaving his wife and daughters to be with her.
Kyoichi Katayama – Crying Out Love, In the Center of the World
Socrates in Love is about the tragic young love of Sakutaro and Aki, and it was, apparently, very well-received by the public in Japan because of its theme.
