[DeepL Translation - needs review] The title story is about a woman who goes to visit her friend who is rumored to have attempted suicide and hears about the unexpected end of her love affair, while "Penitentiary in the Toilet" and other four other stories of the bizarre world.
(Translator: DeepL)
All four stories in this book, quite different in tone and content, are connected by a common theme: moments, memories, friendships in the characters' childhood that somehow resurface in their adulthood.
Despite the cover, there's nothing cute about these stories. They are surprising, creepy and disturbing in varying degrees, one of them especially deserving the label of horror more than any other Japanese horror book I've read. It had me at the edge of my seat, dreading to read on but unable