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[DeepL Translation - needs review] The story begins when Konami, a housewife with a vague sense of insecurity about her seemingly peaceful home with her husband, one day finds a sticker on a pillar at Mitsukoshi Department Store in Nihonbashi that was supposed to have been attached to her parents' house when she was a child. She was told by her mother that her father was a mannequin doll in a miner's outfit that was placed in an abandoned mine theme park that still exists today. The work exp...
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(3/5)This book may be short but it's not easy. It's written in the stream-of-consciousness style, with long sentences, unconventional metaphors, sometimes unique onomatopoeia, extensive vocabulary, and (thankfully only a couple) lines in a combination of dialect and old-man-slur that were nearly incomprehensible to me.
It was, however, a delight. A blend of slice of life, slapstick humour, mystery and even horror (in the atmosphere of increasing unease and doubt it creates), it effortlessly straddl
The worst thing I've read in Japanese yet!
Extremely repetitive, if you want to read someone panicking every time they go outside because they see a person that unsettles them, and then they ping pong in their head for two pages between thinking something and thinking the polar opposite, this book will certainly fulfill that. It pretty much coasts on its 50+ character sentence length to substitute these same-y rants in place of having ideas. It's neat enough for the first few chapters until it'