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September 2, 2025
I hate this book so much. I don’t even know where to start, but this is a good point: this whole book is a farce. KAMON Nanami wrote this to inflict the pain of searching for, and moving into, a new house/apartment on her readers, as well as showcase a multitude of her neuroses.
Go to a therapist, lady.
✦ All chapters prior to “引っ越しの話” are nothing but filler. “引っ越しの話” is the main point of the book, taking up 105 of its 269 pages (39%!!!). It’s all about Kamon’s search for the house she wants to live in.
You would not believe what you have to trudge through for “引っ越しの話”. Kamon keeps yapping about feng shui and luck, her requirements for her house and her neighborhood. She doesn’t want to live in a neighborhood that’s merely “convenient”; it has to have character as well.
✦ She starts out boring and ends up insufferable. Nothing about this book is scary except for the naked privilege of a pre-Bubble-burst boomer. She had the fucking nerve to relay a story where she called an old lady a “クソババ.” Bitch, you’re the クソババ. You and your never-ending tedious tirade about feng shui.
✦ About that: if I wanted to learn about feng shui, I’d read a book about feng shui, not your amateur hot takes about east-west balance!!! The only feng shui that is scary is Chito S. Roño’s 2004 movie of that name, which is fucking baller by the way.
✦ The main point of a horror book like this is to claim 実話怪談 and then make shit up. The question is how creepy a scene can an author create. Her conceit of “these are my personal experiences” and her insistence on the “realism” of these stories ends up making them completely boring.
It’s like Kamon found Reddit and tried composing her own posts, but never got around to posting them ’cause she realized none of them would make the cut on r/nosleep, so instead she got Kadokawa to publish them. BUHHHH.
✦ This book also becomes a kind of weird flex, Kamon using the pages to portray herself as some kind of 霊能者 without actually claiming to be one — that way nobody gets to call her out. Honestly, the title of this review on Amazon has it to rights:
Go to a therapist, lady.
✦ All chapters prior to “引っ越しの話” are nothing but filler. “引っ越しの話” is the main point of the book, taking up 105 of its 269 pages (39%!!!). It’s all about Kamon’s search for the house she wants to live in.
You would not believe what you have to trudge through for “引っ越しの話”. Kamon keeps yapping about feng shui and luck, her requirements for her house and her neighborhood. She doesn’t want to live in a neighborhood that’s merely “convenient”; it has to have character as well.
「どこに住んでいるの？どんな場所なの？」誰かにそう訊かれたとき、「まあ、便利だよ」で終わるような街には、私は住みたくない。
✦ She starts out boring and ends up insufferable. Nothing about this book is scary except for the naked privilege of a pre-Bubble-burst boomer. She had the fucking nerve to relay a story where she called an old lady a “クソババ.” Bitch, you’re the クソババ. You and your never-ending tedious tirade about feng shui.
✦ About that: if I wanted to learn about feng shui, I’d read a book about feng shui, not your amateur hot takes about east-west balance!!! The only feng shui that is scary is Chito S. Roño’s 2004 movie of that name, which is fucking baller by the way.
✦ The main point of a horror book like this is to claim 実話怪談 and then make shit up. The question is how creepy a scene can an author create. Her conceit of “these are my personal experiences” and her insistence on the “realism” of these stories ends up making them completely boring.
It’s like Kamon found Reddit and tried composing her own posts, but never got around to posting them ’cause she realized none of them would make the cut on r/nosleep, so instead she got Kadokawa to publish them. BUHHHH.
✦ This book also becomes a kind of weird flex, Kamon using the pages to portray herself as some kind of 霊能者 without actually claiming to be one — that way nobody gets to call her out. Honestly, the title of this review on Amazon has it to rights:
『たてもの怪談』ではなく、『自称霊感持ち、家を買う』
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