The Great Detective is a teenager

Sunday, June 7, 2020

The Great Detective is cool and composed. He has an aura of elegance around him. His powers of deduction are bordering superhuman. Unlike the detectives in hardboiled detective books, great detective is often in good terms with the police force. He has very little interest in women and is perhaps asexual. He doesn’t need to carry a gun; his strongest weapon – the powers of deduction are always with him.…

Light novel writers and Naoki Prize

Saturday, June 6, 2020

There are certainly some talented writers who’ve written light novels. I’ve heard people call Romeo Tanaka the Shakespeare of light novel and visual novel writers several times. Today, however, I want to focus on something more specific, light novel writers who’ve won the Naoki Prize. The Naoki Prize, named after the novelist Sanjugo Naoki and presented semiannually, is one of the most prestigious Japanese literary awards. It’s one of the two most sought after literary awards in Japan, the second being the Akutagawa Prize.…