Everyday life in unfamiliar worlds

Choose six books through everyday assumptions in worlds with magic or unfamiliar beings.

What to compare

Compare short-story structures, life in a shared place and encounters with unfamiliar technology.

  1. 1 / 6

    病める惑星より愛をこめて

    病める惑星より愛をこめて

    Read a shared world of humans and alien beings through successive short stories.

    A question to follow

    Whose everyday life is followed, and what is treated as ordinary in each story?

  2. 2 / 6

    シメジ シミュレーション

    シメジ シミュレーション

    Choose through the four-panel form, school conversations and strange events.

    A question to follow

    How do continuing conversations and panel endings affect the sense of strangeness?

  3. 3 / 6

    月出づる街の人々

    月出づる街の人々

    Enter through relationships among residents with different bodies and cultures.

    A question to follow

    What questions do bodily differences create for life in the same town?

  4. 4 / 6

    ペンションライフ・ヴァンパイア

    ペンションライフ・ヴァンパイア

    Read humans and vampires after a conflict through the setting of a guesthouse.

    A question to follow

    Could seeing someone as a guest differ from seeing them during a conflict?

  5. 5 / 6

    魔女のマリーは魔女じゃない

    Choose through a wish to conceal being a witch and the surrounding reactions.

    A question to follow

    Where might a wish to help conflict with a wish to remain concealed?

  6. 6 / 6

    オールドテクニカ

    オールドテクニカ

    Follow the journey and setting through old machines and reconstructed technology.

    A question to follow

    Might access to the technology change the actions available to different people?

To choose a book

Narrow the choice by whether you want short stories, relationships in one place or the workings of a world.

Scope of this guide

This comparison uses the listed introductions. The weight of the subject matter varies; check each work’s reading note.

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