all things fiction

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)."

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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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.

Ok this increased my level of curiosity from “might try” to “essential for my understanding of the mainstream consciousness”