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Etsusa Ōhashi
5656! Knights' Strange Night
戌VS狗、再び！ 渾身の越佐大橋シリーズ短編集、登場！
血塗れの鉄パイプを持った少女が、眠たげな瞳を揺らめかせ──ただ、語る。
「島、今日も銃声が響いてる。いつもどおり。人、死ぬ。いつもどおり。犬と犬、戌井と狗木さん、殺し合う。いつもどおり。東区画のボス、変態。いつもどおり。昼寝仲間の殺人鬼、東区画の猫と刀使い、麗鳳兄さん、探偵の可愛くない弟、みんな、恋に不器用。いつもどおり。島、酷く混乱してる。……いつもどおり。
結局、いつもどおり。島、今日もいつもどおり。ただそれだけ。だから私、いつもどおり、可愛い子、たくさん抱きしめる。ギュウ。暖かい。ぽかぽか。……眠い。寝るぅ。むにゅ……Ｚｚｚ……」
血塗れの鉄パイプを持った少女が、眠たげな瞳を揺らめかせ──ただ、語る。
「島、今日も銃声が響いてる。いつもどおり。人、死ぬ。いつもどおり。犬と犬、戌井と狗木さん、殺し合う。いつもどおり。東区画のボス、変態。いつもどおり。昼寝仲間の殺人鬼、東区画の猫と刀使い、麗鳳兄さん、探偵の可愛くない弟、みんな、恋に不器用。いつもどおり。島、酷く混乱してる。……いつもどおり。
結局、いつもどおり。島、今日もいつもどおり。ただそれだけ。だから私、いつもどおり、可愛い子、たくさん抱きしめる。ギュウ。暖かい。ぽかぽか。……眠い。寝るぅ。むにゅ……Ｚｚｚ……」
- GenresLight Novel
340 pages, Paperback
First published November 10, 2008
About the author
Ryohgo Narita
364 books391 followersRyohgo Narita (成田 良悟, Narita Ryōgo) is a Japanese light novelist. He won the Gold Prize in the 9th Dengeki Novel Prize for Baccano!, which was made into a TV anime in 2007.[1] His series Durarara!! was also made into a TV anime, which began airing January 2010
There are two traits found in most of Narita's works:
* Narita writes extremely fast, one volume a month if he wishes - with tons of spelling errors and missing words as a tradeoff. The editors like to leave them sometimes just for fun, though.
* His work titles often have an exclamation mark at the end (i.e. Baccano!, Vamp!, Durarara!!, etc.).
Kanji names: 成田 良悟 & 成田良悟.
There are two traits found in most of Narita's works:
* Narita writes extremely fast, one volume a month if he wishes - with tons of spelling errors and missing words as a tradeoff. The editors like to leave them sometimes just for fun, though.
* His work titles often have an exclamation mark at the end (i.e. Baccano!, Vamp!, Durarara!!, etc.).
Kanji names: 成田 良悟 & 成田良悟.
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March 25, 2022
Narita has an uncanny knack of writing characters that are quirky and nonsensical enough to toe the line between fun and annoying. But, given most of the ensemble cast from the past 4 books make a return here, some of those characters edge a little bit past that line. Furthermore, with the focus set on several different stories running in tandem, rather than a single one, the narrative drive here isn't as strong as before.
Despite all that, though, much of what I liked of the previous books make a return here, and perhaps shine brighter because of the non-conventional plot structure; the previous Etsusa novels all featured different perspectives knit together in interesting and unexpected ways, and that's all the more evident here. Some of the side characters that didn't feature very heavily in the "main" books get their chance to shine here, and boy do they (I wanna just hug Lifei).
And the whole thing wraps up in a way that neatly bookends the entire series, despite being more of a side-story compilation than anything. Heck, I'd go so far as to consider this a proper fifth entry and true finale to the series, especially since it pretty much requires having read the other 4 to follow along with.
There is talk (perhaps jokingly?) of a 5656 Part 2 in the Afterward, though I'm not sure if that's ever coming out, sadly. Still, if Narita could make me fall this hard for these characters and this setting, then I'm more than willing to check out his more well-known and longer-running stories.
Despite all that, though, much of what I liked of the previous books make a return here, and perhaps shine brighter because of the non-conventional plot structure; the previous Etsusa novels all featured different perspectives knit together in interesting and unexpected ways, and that's all the more evident here. Some of the side characters that didn't feature very heavily in the "main" books get their chance to shine here, and boy do they (I wanna just hug Lifei).
And the whole thing wraps up in a way that neatly bookends the entire series, despite being more of a side-story compilation than anything. Heck, I'd go so far as to consider this a proper fifth entry and true finale to the series, especially since it pretty much requires having read the other 4 to follow along with.
There is talk (perhaps jokingly?) of a 5656 Part 2 in the Afterward, though I'm not sure if that's ever coming out, sadly. Still, if Narita could make me fall this hard for these characters and this setting, then I'm more than willing to check out his more well-known and longer-running stories.
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