黒い季節 (角川文庫)

by 冲方丁 (Illustrator), 獅子猿 (Illustrator)

身のうちに病を飼い、未来を望まぬヤクザ「藤堂」、記憶を喪い、未来の鍵となる美少年「穂」、未来を手にせんとする男「沖」、沖と宿命で結ばれた異能の女「蛭雪」、未来を望まずにはいられぬ少年「誠」、誠と偶然で結ばれた異能の女「戊」――縁は結ばれ、賽は投げられた。世界は、未来は変わるのか？　本屋大賞作家、冲方丁が若き日の情熱と才能をフル投入した、いまだかつてない異形のエンタテインメント!!

377 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Angel 一匹狼 · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is not a book, just some random characters stitched together. When I read that the author lived abroad and practiced his Japanese reading the dictionary it all kind of made sense.

Really, skip it.

The best: the first sentence, till you start to notice Tow Ubukata's weird writing style

The worst: the story makes no sense whatsoever... and neither do the characters, the situations or the sentence construction

Alternatives: weeeeell,... a story about characters that lose their memory and... I really don't really know what was going on in this novel. So, for sci-fi with darkness in it, get "1984", for example. For mysterious characters, pick up a Miyabe Miyuki or Natsuo Kirino novel, for example. For yakuza, watch a Kitano movie... Anything but this.

1/10

(Japanese... well, I am in doubt about if this is really Japanese, but at least it is written with Japanese characters...)

[Yuji · Rating 4 out of 5]

これを読んでから”ばいばい・アース”を読むとこの頃の傾向が分かる。