List of Reviews

Novels

Akasaka Mari – Vibrator
Arikawa Hiro – The Travelling Cat Chronicles
Dazai Osamu – Schoolgirl
Edogawa Ranpo – Strange Tale of Panorama Island
Ekuni Kaori – Twinkle Twinkle
Enchi Fumiko – Masks
Furukawa Hideo – Horses, Horses, in the End the Light Remains Pure
Higashino Keigo – Under the Midnight Sun
Hiraide Takashi – The Guest Cat
Imamura Natsuko – The Woman in the Purple Skirt
Kanai Mieko – Indian Summer
Kaneshiro Kazuki – GO
Kawabata Yasunari – Snow Country
Kawakami Hiromi – The Briefcase
Kawakami Hiromi – Manazuru
Kawakami Hiromi – The Nakano Thrift Shop
Kawakami Hiromi – Parade
Kawakami Mieko – Ms Ice Sandwich
Kirino Natsuo – The Goddess Chronicle
Kirino Natsuo – Grotesque
Kirino Natsuo – Real World
Koike Mariko – The Cat in the Coffin
Koike Mariko – The Graveyard Apartment
Kubo Misumi – So We Look to the Sky
Kurumatani Chōkitsu – The Paradise Bird Tattoo
Kyōgoku Natsuhiko – Loups-Garous
Kyōgoku Natsuhiko – The Summer of the Ubume
Maijō Ōtarō – Asura Girl
Minato Kanae – Penance
Mitsuse Ryū – 10 Billion Days & 100 Billion Nights
Miura Shion – The Easy Life in Kamusari
Miura Shion – The Great Passage
Miyabe Miyuki – The Devil’s Whisper
Motoya Yukiko – The Lonesome Bodybuilder
Murakami Haruki – 1Q84
Murakami Haruki – After Dark
Murakami Haruki – Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki
Murakami Haruki – Dance Dance Dance
Murakami Haruki – Hard-Boiled Wonderland
Murakami Haruki – Hear the Wind Sing
Murakami Haruki – Kafka on the Shore
Murakami Haruki – Killing Commendatore
Murakami Ryū – 69
Murakami Ryū – Audition
Murakami Ryū – In the Miso Soup
Murata Sayaka – Convenience Store Woman
Murata Sayaka – Earthlings
Nagai Kafū – Rivalry
Nakajima Kyōko – The Little House
Nakamura Fuminori – Last Winter We Parted
Natsume Sōseki – Kokoro
Natsume Sōseki – Kusamakura
Nonami Asa – Now You’re One of Us
Numata Mahokaru – Nan-Core
Ogawa Issui – The Lord of the Sands of Time
Ogawa Ito – The Restaurant of Love Regained
Ogawa Yōko – Hotel Iris
Ogawa Yōko – The Housekeeper and the Professor
Ogawa Yōko – The Memory Police
Onda Riku – The Aosawa Murders
Ōe Kenzaburō – A Quiet Life
Ōoka Shōhei – Fires on the Plain
Satō Yūya – Dendera
Sukegawa Durian – Sweet Bean Paste
Sena Hideaki – Parasite Eve
Suzuki Kōji – Ring
Taguchi Randy – Outlet
Takagi Nobuko – Translucent Tree
Tanizaki Junichirō – The Makioka Sisters
Tawada Yōko – The Last Children of Tokyo
Togawa Masako – The Master Key
Tsumura Kikuko – There’s No Such Thing As An Easy Job
Uno Chiyo – The Story of a Single Woman
Yagi Emi – Diary of a Void
Yamada Taichi – Strangers
Yokomizo Seishi – The Inugami Clan
Yoshida Shūichi – Parade
Yoshida Shūichi – Villain
Yoshimoto Banana – The Lake
Yoshimoto Banana – Moshi Moshi
Yū Miri – Gold Rush

Single-Author Collections

Awa Naoko – The Fox’s Window
Fujisawa Shūhei – The Bamboo Sword
Inoue Hisashi – Tales from a Mountain Cave
Ishiguro Tatsuaki – Biogenesis
Itō Hiromi – Tree Spirits Grass Spirits
Kanai Mieko – The Word Book
Kaneko Misuzu – Are You An Echo?
Kawabata Yasunari – Palm-of-the-Hand Stories
Kawakami Hiromi – Dragon Palace
Kawakami Hiromi – Record of a Night Too Brief
Kitahara Aiko – The Budding Tree
Kurahashi Yumiko – The Woman with the Flying Head
Miyabe Miyuki – Apparitions: Ghosts of Old Edo
Murakami Ryū – Tokyo Decadence
Murata Sayaka – Life Ceremony
Nonami Asa – Bødy
Ogawa Yōko – The Diving Pool
Ogawa Yōko – Revenge
Okuda Hideo – Lala Pipo
Seirai Yūichi – Ground Zero, Nagasaki
Suzuki Kōji – Death and the Flower
Takemoto Novala – Emily
Taguchi Randy – Fujisan
Yamamoto Hiroshi – The Stories of Ibis
Yoshimoto Banana – Dead End Memories
Yoshiya Nobuko – Yellow Rose

Young Adult Fiction

Miyabe Miyuki – The Book of Heroes
Miyabe Miyuki – Ico: Castle in the Mist
Mori Eto – Colorful
Natsukawa Sōsuke – The Cat Who Saved Books
Otsuichi – Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse
Sakuraba Kazuki – A Small Charred Face
Sakurazawa Hiroshi – All You Need Is Kill
Sakurazawa Hiroshi – Slum Online
Shinkai Makoto – your name.
Takemoto Novala – Kamikaze Girls
Tsujimura Mizuki – Lonely Castle in the Mirror
Tsutsui Yasutaka – The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Uehashi Nahoko – The Beast Player
Uehashi Nahoko – Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
Yumoto Kazumi – The Friends

Light Novels

Ayatsuji Yukito – Another, Volume 1
Fujisaki Ayuna – Vampire Knight: Fleeting Dreams
Fukazawa Mishio – Witches’ Forest
Ishizaki Hiroshi – Chain Mail: Addicted to You
Kabei Yukako – Kieli: The Dead Sleep in the Wilderness
Kawahara Reki – Sword Art Online: Aincrad
Maruyama Kugane – Overlord: The Undead King
Morioka Hiroyuki – Crest of the Stars
NISIOISIN – Zaregoto, Book 1: The Kubikiri Cycle
Nomura Mizuki – Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime
Suszukaze Ryō – Attack on Titan: Before the Fall
Tōno Mamare – Log Horizon: The Beginning of Another World
Yamazaki Kore – The Ancient Magus’ Bride: The Golden Yarn

Edited Anthologies

John L. Apostolou and Martin Harry Greenburg (eds.) – Japanese Science Fiction Stories
Grania Davis and Gene van Toyer (eds.) – Speculative Japan
Michael Emmerich, Jim Hinks, and Masashi Matsuie (eds.) – The Book of Tokyo
Edward Lipsett (ed.) – Speculative Japan 2
Edward Lipsett (ed.) – Speculative Japan 3
Elmer Luke and David Karashima (eds.) – March Was Made of Yarn
Helen Mitsios (ed.) – Digital Geishas and Talking Frogs
Angus Turvill – Heaven’s Wind

Academic Writing

Anne Allison – Permitted and Prohibited Desires
Azuma Hiroki – Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals
Julia Bullock – The Other Women’s Lib
Dani Cavallaro – Magic as Metaphor in Anime
Eric Cazdyn – The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan
Michael Dylan Foster – The Book of Yōkai
Lucy Fraser – The Pleasures of Metamorphosis
Karatani Kōjin – Origins of Modern Japanese Literature
Laura Miller and Jan Bardsley (eds.) – Bad Girls of Japan
Susan Napier – Anime from Akira to Howl’s Moving Castle
Susan Napier – From Impressionism to Anime
Amanda C. Seaman – Writing Pregnancy in Low-Fertility Japan
Stephen Snyder and Philip Gabriel (eds.) – Ōe and Beyond

About Japan

Matt Alt and Hiroko Yoda – Yokai Attack!
Matt Alt and Hiroko Yoda – Yurei Attack!
Brian Ashcraft and Shoko Ueda – Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential
Atelier Sentō – Onibi: Diary of a Yokai Ghost Hunter
Florent Chavouet – Manabeshima: Island Japan
Florent Chavouet – Tokyo on Foot
Jonathan Clements – Schoolgirl Milky Crisis
Zack Davisson – Yūrei: The Japanese Ghost
Lisa Dempster – Neon Pilgrim
Abby Denson – Cool Japan Guide
Patrick Drazen – Anime Explosion!
Diane Durston – Old Kyoto
Alex Kerr – Lost Japan
Jamie Lynn Lano – The Princess of Tennis
Patrick Macias and Izumi Evers – Japanese Schoolgirl Inferno
Jane Mai and An Nguyen – So Pretty / Very Rotten
Helen McCarthy – A Brief History of Manga
Matthew Meyer – The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons
Sophie Richard – The Art Lover’s Guide to Japanese Museums
Brian Salsberg (et al.) – Reimagining Japan
Frederik L. Schodt – Dreamland Japan
Eric Talmadge – Getting Wet
Jenna Winterburg and Michelle Nguyen (eds.) – Gothic & Lolita Bible

About Video Games

Kari Fry – Banquet of the Wild
Daniel Goldberg and Linus Larsson – The State of Play
David Hellman and Tevis Thompson – Second Quest
Chris Kohler – Final Fantasy V
Keza MacDonald and Jason Killingsworth – You Died: The Dark Souls Companion
Chris Melissinos and Patrick O’Rourke – The Art of Video Games
Clyde Mandelin – Legends of Localization
Patrick Thorpe (et al.) – Hyrule Historia
Audrey Waner and Dan Moore – EarthBound Handbook

Art Books and Exhibition Catalogs

David Elliot – Bye Bye Kitty
Junko Mizuno – Ravina The Witch?
Takashi Murakami – Little Boy
Kirstin Pires – Three Directions: teamLab, Tenmyouya Hisashi, Ikeda Manabu
Yōhei Sometani – Girl, Illustrated
Masami Toku – Shojo Manga! Girl Power!
Ivan Vartanian – Drop Dead Cute
Yumi Yamaguchi – Warriors of Art

Manga

Aihara Miki – From Five to Nine
Amano Taka – Marshmallow Bungaku Girl
Asano Inio – Solanin
Azuma Kiyohiko – Yotsubato!
CLAMP – Gate 7
CLAMP – xxxHOLiC
Dowman Sayman – Nickelodeon
est em – Hatarake Kentauros
Ishinomori Shōtaro – The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
KaiJu – Mahou Josei Chimaka
Konami Kanata – Chi’s Sweet Home
Nagabe – Buchō wa onee
Smith, Filipe – Peepo Choo
Taniguchi Jirō – The Walking Man
Tezuka Osamu – Ayako
Unita Yumi – Bunny Drop
Yamazaki Mari – Thermae Romae
Yoshinaga Fumi – Ōoku

Japanese Language

Ishimoto Kaoru – Danchi junrei
Kawakami Hiromi – Kamisama
Miyazaki Hayao – Shuna no tabi
Murakami Haruki – Nemuri
Sakurada Ikka – Kenchikuka ga mita manga no sekai
Satō Tetsuya – Syndrome
Wataya Risa – Keritai senaka