Arikawa Hiroshi’s representative works

◎No. 1 in the entertainment fiction category of "HonのMagazine" in 2006

◎No. 6 in the top 10 Japanese science fiction works in 2006 (voted by Japanese SF writers and critics)

◎No. 5 in the 2007 Japan "Honya Awards" (voted by Japanese bookstore clerks as the book they most want to sell to readers)

◎The series has sold more than 1,100,000 copies in Japan

◎4 and a half stars on Japan’s Amazon website

◎The Taiwan version specially invites Japanese light novel critic Nozomi Omori to read the article

◎It has been adapted into comics in Japan. , animation, Library War has become the most popular topic in Japan!

◎The Chinese version exclusively includes recommendations from Japanese light novel critic Nozomi Omori.

When the freedom of reading is taken away, the first one to resist is the library!

The background of this book is set in the near future of 2019 AD. The author first spends a lot of time constructing an imaginary and vivid scene, describing the "library team" and "banning dangerous publications on the grounds of banning dangerous publications". , a fierce confrontation between government agencies that obstruct book freedom. In order to clamp down on phenomena that disrupt public order and violate human rights, the Japanese government forcibly implemented the "Media Good Law", and an organization that fought for freedom of reading, the "Library," stepped forward. The purpose of the library team is to save banned books and protect the future of books!

The library war is about to break out!

In order to compete with the "Media Improvement Law", a library declaration in Chapter 4 was added to the original library law. The declaration is as follows:

1. Books Libraries have the freedom to collect information

2. Libraries have the freedom to provide information

3. Libraries must keep users’ secrets

4. Libraries Oppose all improper review

5. When the freedom of the library is violated, we will unite and defend freedom.

When the confrontation between the media-sanitized secret service and the library defense team intensifies, war is about to break out!

Library Defense Team, all members guard the hunted books.

The protagonist Iku Kasahara joins the library defense force as a girl by chance. After being trained in the devil instructor hall, he aims to become a professional library team member.

The story also revolves around this passionate and righteous girl, Iku Kasahara. The main team members are as follows:

Iku Kasahara (heroine): a passionate fool, in order to find His Royal Highness joined the library team.

Tushi: An irritable little man who serves as the instructor of the library team.

Mikihisa Komaki: As an instructor of the library team, he adheres to the truth in both public and private matters, but he is not a stubborn old man who doesn't know how to adapt.

Hikaru Tezuka: A stubborn boy who admires his instructor very much.

Shibasaki Asako: Well-informed, Yu’s roommate and friend.

Kuantian Ryusuke: The noisy middle-aged Ogissan.

Hiroshi Arikawa, a new-generation Japanese writer who successfully combines the characteristics of light novels and literary novels, has a remarkable follow-up development!

The author Hiroshi Arikawa made his debut in a light novel competition. His works were not only loved by young readers, but also won praise from popular readers after being published in the form of a literature book. As a result, "Library War" was selected by Japanese bookstores Voted by store clerks as one of the books they most want to sell to readers. Japanese literary critics also highly praised Arikawa Hiroshi's writing skills, which perfectly combine the three elements of youth novels, romantic comedies and military adventure novels, and no one can match him. After her debut work "Self-Defense Forces Trilogy", the fourth volume of the "Library Series" was released, making Hiroshi Arikawa one of the best-selling female writers of the new generation in Japan.

Street of Salt

The weathered salt pillars stand all over the city,

It has long been an unchanging and common sight. The world is damaged by salt,

< p>Civilization is on the verge of Waqa The grains of salt peeling off the edges or scattered on the roads were originally part of the dead bodies

Now people can step on them nonchalantly

Death is coming At this time,

How will the desires that have been suppressed until now get out of control? Any unchanging tomorrow,

is no longer what this world can promise

But- ─ People love each other until the moment the world ends

The story takes place in the "Salt Age" when the entire world was buried by salt. The city is being invaded bit by bit by salt, and civilized society is on the verge of collapse. In Tokyo, Japan, which is about to collapse, there is a man and a girl living together; the man's name is Akita, and the girl's name is Mana. The two lived peacefully every day, but their peaceful life gradually changed because of the acquaintance of several passers-by... On one day, a sudden visitor came to the residence of Qiuting and Mana, which not only changed the relationship between the two of them. The relationship also affects the fate of the entire world...

Won the 10th Dengeki Novel Award in 2003, it is a memorable first-time novel. It was published by Dengeki Bunko under the title "Salt Street Wish on My Precious" in 2004. It was revised in 2007 after adding four additional short stories and published as a hardcover single novel under the name "Salt Street".

The background of the story is Japan in the near future (or it can be called a parallel world). One day, a white meteorite-like object with a diameter of 500 meters fell to the earth at lightning speed. At the same time, a strange phenomenon occurred in which humans transformed into pillars of salt (commonly known as "salt damage"). The death toll in Japan alone is estimated to be as high as 80 million. Civilized society collapsed in an instant, and those who survived the disaster fled to the countryside and lived a self-sufficient and poor life...

The first half of the novel lightly describes the girl who lost her family due to salt damage and the people who live with her. The scene of the boy's life, however, in the second half of the story, the rhythm changes after the man's true identity is revealed, and the Arikawa style is launched in one breath.

After reading it again, I realized that it has included almost all the features of Hiroshi Arikawa's works - the setting of science fiction background; more emphasis on response than the scientific mystery of solving the crisis; a group of professional men under a large group A heroic novel that shows off its talents; a down-to-earth protagonist who is not good at words and has a clumsy personality, paired with a well-rounded, thoughtful and eloquent supporting character; a super-slow love story that makes people anxious... The only funny love factor that is a little weak is also included in Several extra short stories in the hardcover book are wonderful complements; they can be called Arikawa Hiroshi's starting point.

In the sky

Year 200X──

Many mysterious plane crashes occurred in succession. The person in charge of the manufacturer and the surviving pilots They took off to investigate, but discovered a secret at an altitude of 20,000 meters where the crash occurred...?

On the other hand, the children of the deceased driver also found unknown mysterious creatures on the beach. When the two secrets discovered by adults and children come together, it is when all of Japan—and even all of humanity—will face a strange crisis that has never been seen before...

Recommended article by Japanese literary critic Nozomi Omori

"In the Sky" can basically be said to be "Ultraman without Superman (Note: ウルトラマン)". Note: The images presented in the movie "The Great Monster Aerial Showdown, 1995" (abandoning the standardized descriptions of monster movies in the past and using a specific suspenseful plot narrative method) are reproduced in the world of the novel A science fiction adventure masterpiece. The story takes place in the sea of ??Shikoku at an altitude of 20,000 meters. The test aircraft of the private supersonic jet development team and the Self-Defense Forces military aircraft had mysterious accidents in the same airspace one after another. It seemed that there was a huge UFO floating in the sky. Takami Haruna, a member of the Private Accident Investigation Committee, visited the Self-Defense Forces base and went to the accident airspace with Mitsuki Takeda, a female pilot who was piloting another military aircraft of the same team at the time of the crash, to investigate. The protagonist of another story line is Shun Saiki, a high school student living in the suburbs of Kochi City. Shun picked up an unknown jellyfish-like creature on the beach and named it "FAKE". FAKE has the ability to manipulate radio signals at will. Through the mobile phone left by his father who passed away suddenly, he can talk to him in awkward language... This part becomes the "E.T" style youth science fiction route. The local atmosphere of Kochi is vividly reproduced using dialect writing techniques, and it is full of realistic style of youth novels. The two stories are intertwined with narration, and merge into one in the second half to show a majestic and vast scene. This masterpiece allows people to relive the emotion and passion of seeing "Superman" for the first time as a child in a modern novel.

contents

Prologue Early Spring

Chapter 1 Children Find Secrets

Chapter 2 Adults Find Secrets

Chapter 3 The secret is hidden at an altitude of 20,000 feet

Chapter 4 People betrayal

Chapter 5 The child embarks on the road of no return

Chapter 6 The human heart Panic

Chapter 7: Chaos comes suddenly

Chapter 8: The signs of restoration of order are just around the corner

Chapter 9: Who is finally saved...?

The Final Chapter of Midsummer

Under the Sea

A Quiet Spring with Sunny Weather

Under the calm sea...

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When a Maritime Self-Defense Force submarine anchored at the US military base in Yokosuka received an order to prepare to set sail, it was unable to sail for unknown reasons. The captain decided to let all personnel on the ship retreat. However, when the crew left, they witnessed a group of crustacean creatures as big as humans preying on the base personnel...

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The protagonist is the Maritime Self-Defense Force, and the enemy is a mysterious group of giant crayfish, known as "Regalis". It is rare in Arikawa's works to focus on a compact story that takes place in a secret room.

The main story stage is the Maritime Self-Defense Force's Oyashio-class submarine "Kiroshi" anchored at the U.S. Army's Yokosuka Base. When receiving the order to prepare to set sail, it fell into a state of being unable to sail due to unknown reasons. So the captain made the decision to evacuate all personnel on the ship; however, when the crew stepped out of the Mist Tide ship, what they saw was a tragic scene of a group of crustacean creatures as big as humans preying on the base personnel...

The protagonists of the novel are a group of young self-defense officers of the Maritime Self-Defense Force, Natsuki Yamato and Fuyuhara Haruomi. Although the two led thirteen children participating in the base's teaching observation activities to escape into the Kirtide ship, their movements were restricted because of this.

On the ground, on the other hand, a special service team composed of Kanagawa Prefectural police officers and counselors from the National Police Agency is working to formulate countermeasures in response to the sea scorpion attack... This is a disaster science fiction novel that describes the desperate struggle of a group of men at the scene, with a compact plot. , done in one go. It's like using the "Grand Search Line" plus "Gamera 2 Raikio Raid (Note: the movie "Gamora 2 Raikion Raid", 1996)" as the main axis to explore the ideal image of a hero. Subtitle: A Cat’s Travel Report

Author: Hiroshi Aikawa

Translator: Yin Ning

Publisher: Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House

< p>Producer: Purui Culture

Original title: Traveling Cat Rinpoche

Binding: Paperback

Content Introduction:

A man , a cat, embarking on a tear-jerking nostalgic journey of life together.

"Let's go! Let's begin our final journey!"

Since his childhood, Miyawaki Satoru has been accustomed to moving frequently across the country. By chance, he met the cat "Nana". One day, Nana was accidentally injured. Miyawaki Satoru adopted "Nana" and drove Nana in a truck to start the last journey of his life. An old friend from middle school who has become a great farmer, a couple from high school and college who live in an apartment after getting married...

The book mostly uses the perspective of "Nana" to describe the people and things on the journey. During the journey, Nana and Miyawaki depended on each other for survival. "I was originally a wild cat that no one cared about. Wu saved my life, which is already a miracle to me. Being adopted by him was something I never expected. I regard it as the greatest blessing in my life." So, even if Ah Wu can't support me now, I won't lose anything as a grassroots person. At least, I got the name "Nana" and five years of living with Ah Wu. If Wu died earlier than me, it would be much better than not meeting Wu at all.”

Later, Miyawaki was hospitalized due to illness. Nana's chances of meeting Miyawaki are getting less and less. Miyawaki's condition worsened. The last time Nana saw Miyawaki was on the day Miyawaki left. Miyawaki tried his best to open his eyes, looked at Nana, and said the last "thank you" with all his strength.

Nana recalled this journey and they walked to each destination together - the countryside with swaying green crops, the sea with loud waves, the TV that was very comfortable to lie on...

Ordinary but precious memories overflowed. Nana believed that these beautiful memories would flow with Miyawaki's body, towards the horizon where the rising sun was rising, and embrace the colorful and bright scenery in the distance.

In 2012, "The Beautiful World in My Heart" was published in Japan. It was nominated for various awards including the Yoshikawa Eiji Literary Award, the Yamamoto Goshirō Award, and the Yamada Futaro Award. Its sales exceeded 100,000 copies. And has been adapted into picture books, stage plays and radio plays.