The story becomes more involved when a personal connection appeared between the dangerous lurker, Tsuranui, and Arika. (And this was confirmed by Touma Mato later ) When Tsuranui Mihaya, a female friend of Arika's since high school, met up with him at a local restaurant with gossips about a mysterious person/being lurking around town, snatching up and eating family pet dogs, I finally realized that everyone- even relatively normal, healthy people, in this novel is messed up one way or another. It was also here where many incomprehensible statements begin to appear (such as Arika wanting people to only speak to him about important things during the night, and to only chat to him about pointless topics during daytime), along with extended discussions about the human mind that might scare off the casual reader (but a breeze for anyone who lasted through Kara no Kyoukai though ). Arika's various comments toward this fact are all quite amusing as well.
Also clear was the fact that Karyou Kaie is a knockout loli beauty, and male. But through Arika's initial encounter with the silhuette (and later, the possessed man) in the Kizaki (his neighbour) residence, and his subsequent conversation with Kaie after he was "killed", we came to understand the background setting a little better, including some explanations for the Agonist Syndrome aka.
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As we start off with Arika in the middle of a "job", the story was certainly hard to grab onto in the beginning since it's already in full motion from page 1. This interesting structure meant DDD is a novel where you experience the story events first, and only come to understand the meanings of them after you have finally finished reading.
occured after HandS., which occured after formal hunt (well, that's partly true, since formal hunt is a "reminiscence chapter"). That is to say, the developments in J and E. Timeline wise, the first volume of DDD follows a commonly used novel writing technique by telling the story backwards. This "phenomenon" applies to pretty much the entire novel: the stories begin like a scattered puzzle, where things only start to make sense as you read along and "piece together" the puzzle. Instead, what the text triggers is an urge to read on so that you may understand what is going on better. immediately begins with developments that will leave you clueless. While a first chapter for most novels usually meant a general introduction of the characters and settings, J the E. You can tell this novel isn't normal from the moment you start reading this first chapter (besides the opening section that points to Arika's left arm being chomped away by his little sister ^^ ). Of course, since non-readers might be visiting the thread too, try to keep all story-related spoilers in tags please.
I'll write a more detailed review later, but I figured a thread is appropriate in case there are others who want to talk about this. I finished it a couple of days ago, and I was simply astounded by Nasu Kinoko's writing abilities (more than Fate, even) as I was constantly surprised with new truths and revelations that prevented the story from ever "settling down" into a predictable pattern.Īt the same time, I have to say, I have never read another piece of literature that actually managed to make me feel biologically sick like I did when I read HandS.(L), chapter 3 of the book. A second volume is planned to be released sometime later this year.įormalities aside, I wonder how many members on this forum actually read this. Volume 1 of the novel was released on January 10th, 2007, under the label of Kodansha BOX.
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The series first appeared on Faust, Kodansha's novel magazine, in 2004. This is the discussion thread for DDD, a (light?) novel series written by Nasu Kinoko (TYPE-MOON, scenario writer), with illustrations by Koyama Hirokazu (TYPE-MOON, graphics chief ( personal site)).
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