#sugaru miaki

[vgperson]

Sugaru Miaki's "The Town of Sakura"

The Town of Sakura (or "A Town of Fake Cherry Blossoms") is a novel by Sugaru Miaki, also known as Fafoo, writer of stories like Three Days of Happiness, Pain, Pain, Go Away, and Your Story.

A man who works as a professional faker is told about the suicide of a girl from his past, and he returns to his hometown to confirm its veracity. There, he encounters someone who's the spitting image of the girl he once knew. It all seems set to play out again - only this time, the roles are reversed.

(As you might expect, content warning for suicide as a central element and dark moments in general. Also, a translator's note: the book makes use of the dual meanings of the Japanese word "sakura." Not only does it mean "cherry blossom," it's can also refer to "fakers," specifically in senses like "paid crowd." People should hopefully get the gist, but it may help to know that usage wasn't just invented out of nothing for the story.)

I encourage you to buy the book yourself to support the author. (Rakuten Kobo) (Kinokuniya) (Amazon.co.jp)

I decided I'd post the whole story at once this time, but still split the chapters up into roughly even parts. You can start from Part 1 here. Or you can read my translation as a PDF here.

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

[moondustdreams]

[mangadore]

[transangledlozengeggbutt]

[linkspooky]

What ongoing manga series are you reading currently? Any book recs besides the ten you share often?

Every year at the end of the year I do a summary of every single manga I'm reading in Jump Currently. However, I can give you a brief one:

DanDanDan

Sakamoto Days

Kagurabachi

Hunter x Hunter

Ichi the Witch

Undead Unluck

Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi (please don't get cancelled)

Astro Royale

Witch Watch

Bungo Stray Dogs

Choujin X

My current favorite manga to read on a week to week basis is Undead Unluck, my favorite to read on a monthly basis is Bungo Stray Dogs.

If you want more book recs I'll just give a list because I'm too feverish to write out full paragraph long reccomendations.

Goth by Otsuichi

Black Fairy Tale by Otsuichi

Confessions

Girl Interrupted

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostevsky

Three Days of Happiness by Sugaru Miaki

Stephen King the Shining

Hakata Tonkatsu Ramens Light novel Series

Snow Crash

The Catcher in the Rye

A hero of Our Time by Mikahil Lermontov

Sekai series by Nisioisin

Fate Strange Fake because I'm rereading it for like the 4th time

Any detective novel by Seishi Yokomizo

Kokoro by Natsume Soseki

The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling

Robin Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings Series that's like 15 books long

In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

Grotesque Natsuno Kirino

Journey Under the Midnight Sun Keigo Higashino

I've read all these within the past 11 months and I reccomend all of them.

[mekkyuun]

Some BSD Oc Ideas!

Nobuko Yoshiya

"Flower Tales"

Allows her to summon any type of flower petal or leaf, and manipulate them, such as making them like razors and making them swarm the opponent. Prefers to use Sakura petals, or lily flowers.

Definitely Port Mafia, and since it's Nobuko Yoshiya's works, I imagine probably has a one sided lesbian crush on her superiors like Koyo.

Sugaru Miaki

"Pain, Pain, Go Away"

While not a deceased author like the rest of BSD, I like their works so idc.

God this one's confusing....

She can "postpone" events based on their severity, and can create ripples in time as a result, since everything reverts leaving people only with memories.

Example is better than explanation here.

Let's say Miaki gets injured, and would be incapacitated, but she postpones the injury, and in the meantime does some shit, like kills someone, after the event can't be "postponed", everything reverts, the perosn she killed is alive once more, because she originally would've been injured and couldn't have done it. Granted the victim would still remember it, so whatever info she gains with it wouldn't be useless so long as it wouldn't have changed due to her influence.

This ability works best in fanfics that would have a shit ton of planning, not rp material lol

Shuusaku Endou

"Silence"

Can obscure information or hide it, more intangible things like memories, like changing and obscuring someones motives, beliefs. Kinda like the brainwashing thing going on with Hawthorne.

Christian originally, but uses his ability on himself to hide it lol.

Could be a good recruiter or infiltrator considering he can make someone "silence" their own core values.

Mitsuharu Kaneko

"Song of a jellyfish"

He can sense sound waves and vibrations, pretty simple, he can't manipulate theme necessarily. But he can use the sound waves and vibrations to infer things like when someones approaching, so no ambushes, or things like someones heart rate to infer when someones lying. Kinda like how transparent jellyfishes are interperated as mans "soul" or whatever bullshit poets are on, his ability can be used for that lie detector stuff

Plan to do some more, maybe draw some of these, especially Miaki Sugaru. I like doing Japanese authors to not only stay on theme, but cause I find more niche ones than the typical Western authors. Maybe I'll look for some more obscure Western authors but also look into other cultures like Spanish, cause Don Quixote was pretty fun to write ideas for ^ロ^

Maybe I'll do some more casual ideas like Dante Alighieri being biblical fanfiction, scratch that, just have one dedicated to the amount of books being biblical fanfiction, I can go all day. Even a lot of the BSD characters irl studying Christianity like Akutagawa and Kunikida, seriously Akutagawa's confrontation with Hawthorne could've been so much banger.

^

Average BSD OC creator doing more work into studying literature and political movements, than they do into studying for english class, all to make some OC to ship with some anime twink.

[deepthinker-society]

Valeur. Quelle est votre valeur ? C'est la question centrale de l'œuvre "Le prix du reste de ma vie" de Sugaru Miaki. Dans cet ouvrage, les protagonistes peuvent vendre leur santé, leur temps ou leur vie. Si la vente de la santé n'est pas détaillée, les conséquences des deux autres sont un peu plus explicitées. La vente de son temps consiste à devenir employé à temps complet de l'entreprise qui monnaye la vie et n'avoir plus aucun temps libre à côté. Vendre sa vie consiste à vendre purement et simplement le temps de vie qu'il nous reste à vivre, dans le meilleur des cas. Se pose alors une question, quelle est la valeur de ce temps, qu'il s'agisse de l'espérance de vie ou du temps consacré à travailler. Dans l'œuvre, la valeur de la vie est évaluée selon les critères suivants : la quantité de bonheur dans sa vie, le nombre de personnes rendues heureuses, le nombre de choses accomplies dans sa vie et sa contribution à la société. Les calculs exacts de ces estimations ne sont pas donnés, mais cela donne déjà une base raisonnable sur laquelle réfléchir. Est-ce que ces critères sont légitimes pour estimer la valeur d'une personne ? Le mélange entre les critères personnels (bonheur et choses accomplies) et les critères externes (personnes heureuses, contribution à la société) sont intéressantes. Est-ce qu'une personne égoïste favorisant avant toute chose son bonheur aurait une plus grande valeur qu'une personne donnant toute sa vie pour les autres et/ou la société ? Dans une société individualiste, son propre bonheur passerait avant tout. Dans une société davantage tourner vers la communauté, c'est le second qui serait privilégié. Cela fait réfléchir sur ce que nous valorisons, nous, dans notre propre vie. Qui faisons-nous passer en premier ? Nous-mêmes au détriment parfois du reste ou les autres au détriment parfois de nous-mêmes ? Il n'y a pas de bonnes réponses. Des "bonnes" pour la société ou moralement, il y en a. Pour le reste, c'est propre à chacun. Est-ce qu'il est préférable ensuite de prendre ses préférences personnelles pour référence pour estimer le coût de sa vie ? C'est une question qui reste ouverte là aussi. #valeur #vie #temps #critères

[lienguistics]

some things / personal idiosyncrasies i noticed that i’ve picked up in trying to write in japanese include

- (だ)が、けど > しかし ≫ でも; i will never use でも in my prose unless it is for a highly specific character which i will refrain from ever creating. don’t like でも, v arbitrary.

- しょっちゅう > よく; neutral opinion, just something i noticed minato kanae using a lot.

- (subjectが)objectを、topicはverbる; in general, but especially especially when writing dialogue and quotes makes life a lot easier to read.

- learned to use から、ので from minato kanae and murakami haruki, ため from miaki sugaru; it just depends on the character, what you’re stressing / emphasizing, and how formal. if i don’t want to think i will absolutely default to ので、ため even though i personally will read and mistake ため with ために lmfao. sucks to suck.

- verb phrase #1た人は、verb phrase #2る > 人はverb phrase #1たが、verb phrase #2る; both are fine but for variety. maybe i’m just generating a lot of run-on sentences with the first one though oops!

- resultを(果たし)たのは、reasonということだ :)

- verbるにverbれなかった > verbたいがverbできなかった

- と言わんばかりに > まるで〜かように; not by a large margin but i love と言わんばかりに

- also love and hate compound words like 打ち明ける、辿り着く、言い返す、取り組む、立ち寄る、積み重ねる、受け止める because they are very cool but i always forget the hiragana and looking up just the two kanji doesn’t always work for me

- similarly love and hate the 気が / に+verb words because very cool and fancy but also confusing, like 気が紛れる、気が進む、気が合う、気が利く、気に食わない、気にかける、気に障る、気に留める

- i like using あっさりと a lot, but so does murakami haruki and that is fine!

basically i really like nominalisation i’m learning! v useful! maybe i’m overusing it, who knows!

[vgperson]

An interview with Sugaru Miaki (Fafoo) about his new novel, The Town of Sakura.

NOTE: Contains spoilers for elements of the premise behind The Town of Sakura, some of which aren't introduced until several chapters in.

[seraphicllou]

Title: "Parasite in Love" by Sugaru Miaki

[ode2rin]

mimi i need a new hobby this summer and i'm thinking of reading (i mean i read occasionally but i really want it to be a part of me yknow) booksss do you readdd i'm assuming you do because your writing? 🤌🏻 can you reco 🙏🏻

uhm are you sure you want to ask this from me ^__^ no takebacks now i will be geeking out !!! i haven't read a book for a long time (uni is such a hindrance to happiness)

i'm not sure what genre you prefer, so these are a little bit of everything (fic and nonfic) and this may become too long if i provide you my entire reading list soooo

in a jam by kate canterbary - the last rom i readdd and oh my god nothing beats small town rom when done right !!!!!! i'm very very very picky and particular with rom books (i discontinued a lot so no don't listen to tiktok recos it's a hit or miss. usually it's the latter) but this one, i really enjoyeddd. nothing too heavy just whole fluff <3

ANY TAYLOR JENKINS REID i'm yet to read her other ones but after tshoeh??? i'm sure her other ones eated

hold on i'm not sure what to reco you :(( send me your preffered genre !!!1 but here's my tbr this summer if you want to know what i fancy hehehehe

three days of happiness by sugaru miaki

kim jiyoung, born 1982 by Cho Nam-ju

severance by ling ma

sweet bean paste by durian sukegawa

if u send me ur genre pref, i'll try to curate a list for you hehe <3

[mangadore]

[transangledlozengeggbutt]

[howlingday]

I would say it varies. If the romantic side-plot is important enough, I would say introduce the character from/near the start. Best example of this would, in my opinion, Doll Girl in the Night Angel trilogy by Brent Weeks, who was with Kylar since the beginning. Bringing in a love interest later should be done if the sub-plot is less important, in my opinion. Maybe make the romantic implications come much later AFTER a character is introduced. Flesh out the character and their interests before hinting at who's gonna end up with who.

I don't know who said this, but my favorite statement on romance is asking the question, "Why can't they get together now?" One of them was kidnapped. They're bound by a code of honor they must follow. They're from rival families. They're already married to someone else. In one example, Three Days of Happiness by Sugaru Miaki, the reason they didn't get together was because one of them was going to die in 3 months. This kind of conflict makes the resolution all the sweeter, or more bitter if you're going for a tragic ending.

Of course, this is all my opinion. Write what you'd like. Just so long as you

KEEP UP THEGOOD WORK

[myanimediary]

jumyou wo kaitotte moratta. ichinen ni tsuki ichimanen de.

ENG Title: I sold my life for ten thousand yen per year.

JP Title: 寿命を買い取ってもらった。一年につき、一万円で。

Drama・Psychological・Romance・Supernatural MANGA・3 Volumes (completed) Year: Summer 2016 Publisher: Shueisha Character: Kusunoki ( クスノキ ) , Miyagi ( ミヤギ )