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“Is this really the first time we met? “I feel like I know you.” The story of a grim reaper who helps the dead to overcome their regrets and guides them to the afterlife, "You Won't Remember," has been published by Arte. The author, Fujimaru, won the 19th Dengeki Novel Award 'Gold Prize' in October 2012 for 'Tomorrow I Die and You Come Back to Life', and debuted as an author in February 2013 when the winning work was published as a paperback. Fujimaru has no other works besides the light novel series "Tomorrow I Die and You Come Back to Life" and publishes "You Won't Remember" in a situation where he could be branded as a light novel writer. Fujimaru's "You Won't Remember", which challenges the new genre of emotional mystery with a heart-wrenching style through a dark and heavy setting of a part-time job as a reaper who faces the dead, was first published in Japan in December 2017, and in less than a year it became a huge hit, with cumulative sales exceeding 200,000 copies as of 2019. One day, high school student Shinji Sakura receives an offer from his classmate Yuki Hanamori to work part-time as a "shinigami." The 'God of Death' grants the wishes of the 'dead' who cannot leave this world due to their lingering attachments and sends them to the afterlife. Sakura is skeptical about the unrealistic story, but when she hears that "if you fulfill your work period, I will grant you any wish," she starts working part-time as a reaper with mixed feelings. A student who was in an unexpected accident while trying to mend his broken relationship with his younger sibling, a middle-aged man who had no steady job, cut ties with his family, and cursed the injustice of society, a wife who wanted her husband's love but was pressured to only have children, and a girl who was constantly abused by her mother but yearned for love until the very end, etc. The 'lions' who met their deaths in the midst of despair that was so pitiful, and who lived a life after death called extra time, were visited by Shinji Sakura, a high school student who also lived with despair and resignation. Shinji Sakura, who started a part-time job for 300 yen per hour due to financial constraints, and his classmate and colleague Yuki Hanamori. The two meet through their unique professions as Shinigami, and Hanamori takes pleasure in teasing Sakura by making mischievous jokes. At first, Sakura is dumbfounded by Hanamori's innocent and innocent nature, but gradually she realizes that Hanamori is essential to her and approaches her hidden secret. And through repeated exchanges with death, the two reach the answer to life. |
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Prologue… 7
Chapter 1: The Death of Part-time Job… 9
Chapter 2: The White Letter… 61
Chapter 3: Unconditional Love… 117
Chapter 4: Broken Hearts… 187
Chapter 5: The Flower of Happiness… 247
Epilogue … 348
Translator's Note … 364
Chapter 1: The Death of Part-time Job… 9
Chapter 2: The White Letter… 61
Chapter 3: Unconditional Love… 117
Chapter 4: Broken Hearts… 187
Chapter 5: The Flower of Happiness… 247
Epilogue … 348
Translator's Note … 364
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Into the book
An unexplained anxiety and fear that suddenly pours down.
Gray buildings.
A row of dull umbrellas, like a murky whirlpool.
The sound of rain that sounds like cursing.
People who avoid it.
I don't know what caused it though.
Anyway, I was standing at the crosswalk in the rain, feeling sick and tired of my life full of debt.
--- p.12
It was fun.
I was definitely happy.
I was so happy that I wished time would stop.
Asatsuki, sitting to my left, placed his right hand on the bench.
A distance within reach.
But I didn't have the courage to catch it.
But I was happy.
The moon in the night sky, which I thought I would never be able to catch again, was still within reach.
That we might be able to start again.
--- p.49
Looking back, the conditions for this part-time job are really poor.
The hourly wage is low and there is no overtime pay.
Do something out of the ordinary, like contacting a ghostly 'lion'.
I'm not trying to find only the bad points, but all that comes to mind is the bad.
I can confidently say that if I had known in advance, I would have definitely refused.
But since it's already started, there's no stopping it.
If Hanamori's story is true, the moment he quits, he forgets the night he spent with Asatsuki, and his memories are revised to match the original history.
A history that is both true and false.
That was the only thing I didn't like.
I can't believe I forgot that night.
--- p.71~72
Listening to Hanamori's story, I wondered who on earth was giving the orders.
I don't know if I'll ever know, but I'm curious about mysterious beings that transcend this world.
"but……."
Leaving that question aside, Hanamori brought up an interesting story.
“We can’t recognize the ‘lions,’ but I heard that the ‘lions’ recognize each other.”
"okay?"
Hanamori stopped walking and said, for example, pointing with his finger.
“Before I teamed up with Sakura, I passed through here with the ‘lion’ I was in charge of.
At that time, the person said, 'There is a child just like me. That child should be a lion too.'
“He’s always here, but he hasn’t gone to the other world yet.”
"……iced coffee."
On the roadside that Hanamori pointed to, a boy was standing blankly.
--- p.128
“Do you know the ‘Akashic Records’?”
“I’ve heard of it.
What was it?”
“What about the ‘transparent book’?”
“I’m hearing that for the first time.”
Hanamori continued, saying that he would teach me.
“Akashic Records.
It is said that all memories, thoughts, and concepts of the universe are permanently recorded there.”
Hanamori's explanation continued.
A memory medium that captures everything from before the birth of the universe to the distant future, transcending world, time, and space.
That's the Akashic Records.
“My extra time will be nullified someday.
But it doesn't disappear, it just becomes invisible.
It is said to be left in the 'transparent book' within the Akashic Records.
“It’s a story the messenger who took care of me a long time ago told me.”
“Hey.”
The memories of the universe unleashed by an unknown god of death.
I felt a mysterious possibility there.
Gray buildings.
A row of dull umbrellas, like a murky whirlpool.
The sound of rain that sounds like cursing.
People who avoid it.
I don't know what caused it though.
Anyway, I was standing at the crosswalk in the rain, feeling sick and tired of my life full of debt.
--- p.12
It was fun.
I was definitely happy.
I was so happy that I wished time would stop.
Asatsuki, sitting to my left, placed his right hand on the bench.
A distance within reach.
But I didn't have the courage to catch it.
But I was happy.
The moon in the night sky, which I thought I would never be able to catch again, was still within reach.
That we might be able to start again.
--- p.49
Looking back, the conditions for this part-time job are really poor.
The hourly wage is low and there is no overtime pay.
Do something out of the ordinary, like contacting a ghostly 'lion'.
I'm not trying to find only the bad points, but all that comes to mind is the bad.
I can confidently say that if I had known in advance, I would have definitely refused.
But since it's already started, there's no stopping it.
If Hanamori's story is true, the moment he quits, he forgets the night he spent with Asatsuki, and his memories are revised to match the original history.
A history that is both true and false.
That was the only thing I didn't like.
I can't believe I forgot that night.
--- p.71~72
Listening to Hanamori's story, I wondered who on earth was giving the orders.
I don't know if I'll ever know, but I'm curious about mysterious beings that transcend this world.
"but……."
Leaving that question aside, Hanamori brought up an interesting story.
“We can’t recognize the ‘lions,’ but I heard that the ‘lions’ recognize each other.”
"okay?"
Hanamori stopped walking and said, for example, pointing with his finger.
“Before I teamed up with Sakura, I passed through here with the ‘lion’ I was in charge of.
At that time, the person said, 'There is a child just like me. That child should be a lion too.'
“He’s always here, but he hasn’t gone to the other world yet.”
"……iced coffee."
On the roadside that Hanamori pointed to, a boy was standing blankly.
--- p.128
“Do you know the ‘Akashic Records’?”
“I’ve heard of it.
What was it?”
“What about the ‘transparent book’?”
“I’m hearing that for the first time.”
Hanamori continued, saying that he would teach me.
“Akashic Records.
It is said that all memories, thoughts, and concepts of the universe are permanently recorded there.”
Hanamori's explanation continued.
A memory medium that captures everything from before the birth of the universe to the distant future, transcending world, time, and space.
That's the Akashic Records.
“My extra time will be nullified someday.
But it doesn't disappear, it just becomes invisible.
It is said to be left in the 'transparent book' within the Akashic Records.
“It’s a story the messenger who took care of me a long time ago told me.”
“Hey.”
The memories of the universe unleashed by an unknown god of death.
I felt a mysterious possibility there.
--- p.302~303
Publisher's Review
“Is this really the first time we met?
“I feel like I know you.”
200,000 copies sold immediately after publication
Amazon Japan Bestseller
The story of a grim reaper who helps the dead to overcome their regrets and guides them to the afterlife, "You Won't Remember," has been published by Arte.
The author, Fujimaru, won the 19th Dengeki Novel Award 'Gold Prize' in October 2012 for 'Tomorrow I Die and You Come Back to Life', and debuted as an author in February 2013 when the winning work was published as a paperback.
After that, when the company was going through hard times and bad things kept happening, such as being hospitalized, I thought about what to do and decided to write a novel.
As such, 『Tomorrow I Die and You Come Back to Life』, which won the Dengeki Novel Award for its first novel and received much love from readers for its quality, has been serialized and four volumes have been published so far.
The 'Dengeki Novel Award', which is somewhat unfamiliar in Korea, is a novel award for new writers that has been hosted since 1994 by ASCII Media Works, a brand of Japanese publisher Kadokawa. If we look at the nature of the winning works, it can be said that they are broadly close to 'light novels'.
Fujimaru has no other works besides the light novel series "Tomorrow I Die and You Come Back to Life" and publishes "You Won't Remember" in a situation where he could be branded as a light novel writer.
Fujimaru's "You Won't Remember", which challenges the new genre of emotional mystery with a heart-wrenching style through a dark and heavy setting of a part-time job as a reaper who faces the dead, was first published in Japan in December 2017, and in less than a year it became a huge hit, with cumulative sales exceeding 200,000 copies as of 2019.
A world without memories is coming soon,
Maybe I can find hope there.
But whose memory is this…?
One day, high school student Shinji Sakura receives an offer from his classmate Yuki Hanamori to work part-time as a "shinigami."
The 'God of Death' grants the wishes of the 'dead' who cannot leave this world due to their lingering attachments and sends them to the afterlife.
Sakura is skeptical about the unrealistic story, but when she hears that "if you fulfill your work period, I will grant you any wish," she starts working part-time as a reaper with mixed feelings.
A student who was in an unexpected accident while trying to mend his broken relationship with his younger sibling, a middle-aged man who had no steady job, cut ties with his family, and cursed the injustice of society, a wife who wanted her husband's love but was pressured to only have children, and a girl who was constantly abused by her mother but yearned for love until the very end, etc.
The 'lions' who met their deaths in the midst of despair that was so pitiful, and who lived a life after death called extra time, were visited by Shinji Sakura, a high school student who also lived with despair and resignation.
Shinji Sakura, who started a part-time job for 300 yen per hour due to financial constraints, and his classmate and colleague Yuki Hanamori.
The two meet through their unique professions as Shinigami, and Hanamori takes pleasure in teasing Sakura by making mischievous jokes.
At first, Sakura is dumbfounded by Hanamori's innocent and innocent nature, but gradually she realizes that Hanamori is essential to her and approaches her hidden secret.
And through repeated exchanges with death, the two reach the answer to life.
“This story will become transparent again when I disappear.
But for this moment, I can make you happy.”
One day, he died in an unexpected accident and went to the afterlife with regrets, only to find himself still alive.
Has the very fact that I am dead disappeared?
A parallel world given to the deceased to resolve the regrets they had while alive and to sort out their lives up to now. It is a kind of moratorium.
If such a world existed, people would usually be busy meeting the people they wanted to meet, doing the things they wanted to do, and leaving behind evidence that they lived.
But what if the moment the grace period ends and you accept your fate, everything becomes as if it never happened?
The author, Fujimaru, named this dreamlike time between life and death “extra time.”
The only people who can perceive that time of boundary that is unknown to ordinary people are the 'dead' who has faced death and the 'god of death' who helps them to release their foolishness.
But the lions, not knowing what their own foolishness is, are flustered by the sudden extra time and try to live as if nothing happened.
Of course, there are lions who are vaguely aware of their own foolishness, but turn a blind eye to it.
Because facing one's own foolishness is like facing one's own regret and despair.
But in the end, the fate of dying cannot be resisted, and extra time cannot change anything.
Even if you write a letter to your family, convey your feelings that you couldn't convey while you were alive, or complete a work you had been working on, all the actions you took during the extra time will seem like they never happened.
Fujimaru realistically portrays the fact that no matter how much you regret, there are pasts that cannot be changed and attachments that cannot be resolved through realistic characters.
So, the relationship between the 'lion' and the 'god of death' struggling between life and death is not just pitiful and hopeless, but rather noble.
You can find the story of the '300 Yen Hourly Death God' who is confident that his worst part-time job, which is below minimum wage and has poor working conditions, is the best job in 'You Won't Remember'.
“You Won’t Remember” could be said to be the author’s philosophy of life in the form of a light novel.
If we substitute 'life' into the setting of 'extra time' that appears in the work, wouldn't readers also feel something great?
This is a work that I would especially recommend to readers who do not like 'light' novels.
“It starts lightly, but a heavy feeling awaits at the end.” _ Translator’s Note
#Fujimaru, #藤まる, #You may not remember, #300 yen per hour death god, #時給三○○円の死神, #Japanese novel, #emotional mystery, #youth mystery, #memory, #200,000 copies sold, #extra time, #death, #this world, #the afterlife, #lion, #Grim Reaper, #part-time job, #hope, #happiness, #Dengeki Novel Award, #Tomorrow I die and you come back to life
“I feel like I know you.”
200,000 copies sold immediately after publication
Amazon Japan Bestseller
The story of a grim reaper who helps the dead to overcome their regrets and guides them to the afterlife, "You Won't Remember," has been published by Arte.
The author, Fujimaru, won the 19th Dengeki Novel Award 'Gold Prize' in October 2012 for 'Tomorrow I Die and You Come Back to Life', and debuted as an author in February 2013 when the winning work was published as a paperback.
After that, when the company was going through hard times and bad things kept happening, such as being hospitalized, I thought about what to do and decided to write a novel.
As such, 『Tomorrow I Die and You Come Back to Life』, which won the Dengeki Novel Award for its first novel and received much love from readers for its quality, has been serialized and four volumes have been published so far.
The 'Dengeki Novel Award', which is somewhat unfamiliar in Korea, is a novel award for new writers that has been hosted since 1994 by ASCII Media Works, a brand of Japanese publisher Kadokawa. If we look at the nature of the winning works, it can be said that they are broadly close to 'light novels'.
Fujimaru has no other works besides the light novel series "Tomorrow I Die and You Come Back to Life" and publishes "You Won't Remember" in a situation where he could be branded as a light novel writer.
Fujimaru's "You Won't Remember", which challenges the new genre of emotional mystery with a heart-wrenching style through a dark and heavy setting of a part-time job as a reaper who faces the dead, was first published in Japan in December 2017, and in less than a year it became a huge hit, with cumulative sales exceeding 200,000 copies as of 2019.
A world without memories is coming soon,
Maybe I can find hope there.
But whose memory is this…?
One day, high school student Shinji Sakura receives an offer from his classmate Yuki Hanamori to work part-time as a "shinigami."
The 'God of Death' grants the wishes of the 'dead' who cannot leave this world due to their lingering attachments and sends them to the afterlife.
Sakura is skeptical about the unrealistic story, but when she hears that "if you fulfill your work period, I will grant you any wish," she starts working part-time as a reaper with mixed feelings.
A student who was in an unexpected accident while trying to mend his broken relationship with his younger sibling, a middle-aged man who had no steady job, cut ties with his family, and cursed the injustice of society, a wife who wanted her husband's love but was pressured to only have children, and a girl who was constantly abused by her mother but yearned for love until the very end, etc.
The 'lions' who met their deaths in the midst of despair that was so pitiful, and who lived a life after death called extra time, were visited by Shinji Sakura, a high school student who also lived with despair and resignation.
Shinji Sakura, who started a part-time job for 300 yen per hour due to financial constraints, and his classmate and colleague Yuki Hanamori.
The two meet through their unique professions as Shinigami, and Hanamori takes pleasure in teasing Sakura by making mischievous jokes.
At first, Sakura is dumbfounded by Hanamori's innocent and innocent nature, but gradually she realizes that Hanamori is essential to her and approaches her hidden secret.
And through repeated exchanges with death, the two reach the answer to life.
“This story will become transparent again when I disappear.
But for this moment, I can make you happy.”
One day, he died in an unexpected accident and went to the afterlife with regrets, only to find himself still alive.
Has the very fact that I am dead disappeared?
A parallel world given to the deceased to resolve the regrets they had while alive and to sort out their lives up to now. It is a kind of moratorium.
If such a world existed, people would usually be busy meeting the people they wanted to meet, doing the things they wanted to do, and leaving behind evidence that they lived.
But what if the moment the grace period ends and you accept your fate, everything becomes as if it never happened?
The author, Fujimaru, named this dreamlike time between life and death “extra time.”
The only people who can perceive that time of boundary that is unknown to ordinary people are the 'dead' who has faced death and the 'god of death' who helps them to release their foolishness.
But the lions, not knowing what their own foolishness is, are flustered by the sudden extra time and try to live as if nothing happened.
Of course, there are lions who are vaguely aware of their own foolishness, but turn a blind eye to it.
Because facing one's own foolishness is like facing one's own regret and despair.
But in the end, the fate of dying cannot be resisted, and extra time cannot change anything.
Even if you write a letter to your family, convey your feelings that you couldn't convey while you were alive, or complete a work you had been working on, all the actions you took during the extra time will seem like they never happened.
Fujimaru realistically portrays the fact that no matter how much you regret, there are pasts that cannot be changed and attachments that cannot be resolved through realistic characters.
So, the relationship between the 'lion' and the 'god of death' struggling between life and death is not just pitiful and hopeless, but rather noble.
You can find the story of the '300 Yen Hourly Death God' who is confident that his worst part-time job, which is below minimum wage and has poor working conditions, is the best job in 'You Won't Remember'.
“You Won’t Remember” could be said to be the author’s philosophy of life in the form of a light novel.
If we substitute 'life' into the setting of 'extra time' that appears in the work, wouldn't readers also feel something great?
This is a work that I would especially recommend to readers who do not like 'light' novels.
“It starts lightly, but a heavy feeling awaits at the end.” _ Translator’s Note
#Fujimaru, #藤まる, #You may not remember, #300 yen per hour death god, #時給三○○円の死神, #Japanese novel, #emotional mystery, #youth mystery, #memory, #200,000 copies sold, #extra time, #death, #this world, #the afterlife, #lion, #Grim Reaper, #part-time job, #hope, #happiness, #Dengeki Novel Award, #Tomorrow I die and you come back to life
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of publication: January 16, 2019
- Page count, weight, size: 368 pages | 396g | 128*188*30mm
- ISBN13: 9788950978976
- ISBN10: 8950978970
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