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あなたも殺人犯になれる!

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by 赤川 次郎
( 19 ratings, 4 reviews )
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Satomi Okamoto, a seventeen-year-old high school girl who aspires to become a manga artist, decides to take part in a training school course "You Can Be a Manga Artist, Too!" during the summer vacation. Satomi heads to the mountain lodge where the course will be held with a group of oddball classmates, including Naoko, who has left her fiancée behind, and Kasahara, who is trying to quit his job. At the same time, however, a prisoner being transported by the police kills a police officer and esca...
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288
ISBN:
4041879825
ISBN13:
9784041879825

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AngelicFilthsays
October 3, 2024

Enjoyable and approchable Murder Mystery

In terms of content, this is a straight forward "isolated hut" murder mystery. The plot is not ground breaking, but the execution makes for an easy and enjoyable read - especially from a language learning perspective.

The only difficult aspects with this book are the large number of characters - there are more than a dozen names to keep track of - and the occasional scene switch within a chapter.

Other than that the language is mostly easy with common vocabulary and reasonable sentence length

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eefarasays
July 14, 2024

Summer camp of death

What a fun, breezy book. あなたも follows a group of (mostly) young people who sign up for a summer program to learn from a professional mangaka. They get more than they bargained for, however, when a serial killer gets loose from his police escort and finds his way to their lodge.

True to the author's reputation, the action is fast and the language is basic (for a novel), leading to this being a good beginner novel. There's almost no specialized vocabulary, and there are plenty of scenes that are

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lunarrabbitsays
March 13, 2024

Funny, but that's about it. The main plot twist is revealed in the middle of the book and the rest is a suspenseful watching it play out. I'm a fan of premises where the setting is cut off from everything else and killing starts, but I didn't find it particularly gripping.

The prose is very simple, with no descriptions and an emphasis on dialogue. It's also a pretty short light novel.

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Akasheliasays
February 3, 2024

Great first novel

I read it as my first novel, I would have put myself at N4/N3 when I started and at N3/N2 by the time I finished. I read it with the help of Yomichan too. That said, I think it was a great first novel because the chapters are short and there is action all the time, not a lot of lengthily poetical descriptions. The tone is very humorous, very interesting to discover this author.

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