[DeepL Translation - needs review] The "last" original work by the author of the bestseller "Genocidal Organ".
This is a story of two women who witnessed the final phase of "humanity" - a work that won the Japan Science Fiction Grand Prize, in which the author, who passed away suddenly, vividly depicted the critical point of utopia.
(Translator: DeepL)
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the characters lack depth in my opinion. It feels like the kind of story that was written in such a way like the author intended for it to be turned into an anime at some point. The characters and the way the story is told doesn't really fit the philosophical topics that this book is about as well as it could have. In a meta-sense what the protagonist realized towards the end is right, everything she did was for herself. And in the same sense this book, for better or for worse, is about トアン and ミアハ
the author loves overusing compound nouns to a degree that I haven't seen in other books yet, and the prose is mediocre. It didn't feel very smooth or fun to read for the most part, except for some parts in the second half.