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Kent Babin
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Japanese "comfort" fiction on 🔥 "Known in the industry as “healing” or “heartwarming” fiction, comfort books often go unreviewed in the press but represent more than half of the bestselling Japanese fiction titles this year. There are recurring motifs: coffee shops (Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s Before the Coffee Gets Cold); bookstores and libraries (Michiko Aoyama’s What You Are Looking for Is in the Library); and, most of all, cats (Makato Shinkai’s She and Her Cat)." https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/23/japanese-fiction-britain-translation
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Fei
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Ok this increased my level of curiosity from “might try” to “essential for my understanding of the mainstream consciousness”
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Kent Babin
@kentb
Haha, seriously. Comfort fiction is the thing I didn't know I needed. It's interesting too because the Japanese stuff on Netflix is very much on the edgy side.
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Fei
@feeei
Exactly, I want to see the equivalent of ishkur’s guide to electronic music but for Japanese genres just to find the common denominator of the edgy/cozy stuff
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