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by Natsume Soseki (1922)

A young Japanese “black sheep of the family”, a “straight-shooter” with a knack for troubles and misdeeds, was sent to teach mathematics in an isolated southern islands.

by Kenzaburo Oe (1964)

An alienated youth, resenting the burdens of responsibility that age and marriage has caged him in from reaching his utopian dream of travelling to Africa, is forced to face his deformed newly-born.

by Remy Sylado (2003)

A Menadonese child sold by her brother to Shinju in Kembang Jepun, to be trained, disguised, into an out-and-out Japanese geisha during pre-Japanese colonial to post-independence era.

by Edogawa Rampo (1956)

A lucidly-translated collection of short mystery stories by Japan’s most famous mystery writer.

A Father’s Journey with His Son
by Peter Carey (2004)

Charley, Peter Carey’s shy 12-year-old son, together went to Tokyo, guided by Charley’s visualist online friend, Takashi.

by Kobo Abe (1966).

A scientist whose face has been disfigured in a laboratory explosion, penned his thoughts and confessions for his wife.

Story by Akira Sugano, art by Etsumi Ninomiya

If the focus of the Mainichi Seiten! is the relationship between Taiga Obinata and Shuu Asuou, Kodomo wa tomaranai is about Yuuta Asuou (Shuu’s adopted son) and Mayumi Obinata (the youngest of Obinata family).

Mainichi Seiten! – Everyday is a bright day!
Story by Akira Sugano
Art by Etsumi Ninomiya

Shuu Asuou, an SF writer whom Taiga Obinata worked together with as an editor, turned up in front of Obinata’s household with his ‘brother’, Yuuta Asuou. Obinata brothers – Taiga, Juu Sanan, Akinobu Jinan and Mayumi – were shocked, even more when he asked whether they’d heard from Shima-san. ‘How did you about know Shima-nee?’ ‘How’d I know her… I’m her husband.’