[DeepL Translation - needs review] The vice president of the United States, who was visiting Japan, shot and killed a Japanese couple and holed up in their residence. Not wanting to make a big deal out of the situation, the U.S. and Japan set the scene as the "U.S. Embassy Annex" and managed to avoid arresting the vice president. Residents of the adjacent apartment building, Hanazono Villa, now needed their passports to enter and leave their homes. Of course, the public was not told why the ...
Kinda bad
I have read one Akagawa before this and I enjoyed that one a lot more. I read this one because the premise was so ambitious that I wondered if he would actually make it work. Unfortunately, its very unrealistic.
While Akagawa seems to specialize in writing large ensemble pieces, this one is difficult to follow because multiple characters are introduced at the beginning and only become vaguely relevant in the last few pages (I hope you took notes). Meanwhile, there are multiple storylines that e