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Monocon is an annual contest held by monogatary.com. At “Monocon 2023” held last year, we held various projects with the theme of “KAIKO” with the idea of creating a place where many people can come and go through stories = a place of “encounter”. One of the featured projects is the “Monocon 2023 Bungei x monogatary.com Collaboration Award.” This award, which was co-sponsored with the literary magazine “Bungei” published by Kawade Shobo Shinsha and had Akutagawa Prize-winning author Hitomi Kanehara as the selection committee chair, had the highest number of applications at “Monocon 2023.”
And now, the title of the new song produced by YOASOBI, based on the grand prize-winning work “Hakusan Dori Burning Case” (Author: Arutemado), has been decided to be “New me”!
In addition, the book “New me – Bungei x monogatary.com novel collection”, which collects the winning works of the “Monocon 2023 Bungei x monogatary.com collaboration award”, including “Hakusan Street Burning Incident”, will be published by Kawade Shobo on November 11th. It has also been decided that it will be released by Shinsha!
A book cover art by illustrator Havtza has also been released!
This book is sure to be a book that allows you to experience YOASOBI’s concept of “turning novels into music” once again as they celebrate their 5th anniversary!
YOASOBI/monogatary.com × Magazine “Bungei” × Judging Committee Chair Hitomi Kanehara — Please be sure to check out the release of “New me – Bungei x monogatary.com novel collection”, the winning novel of the New Writer’s Prize, born out of a miraculous collaboration. Please pay attention!
■About YOASOBI “New me”
Click here for more information.
https://www.yoasobi-music.jp/news/567368
(YOSAOBI official site)
■About “New me -Bungei x monogatary.com novel collection-”
・Recorded works
Grand prize work
“Hakusan Street Burning” by Arutemado
(Compiled as YOASOBI’s new song “New me”)
Excellent work
“Papageno who wants to become a cyborg” by Donwang Lingwang
“Wandering Face” by Tetra Sakashima
Honorable mention
“Blue Tree and Abandonment” by Menoki Son
“Green Velvet Spine” by Frog Aoi
“Typoglycemia” written by Nanase Honjo
“The Sea of Goodbye” Written by Michi Fuyumura
・About the novel “The Incident of the Hakusan Street Burning” and the author, Hidemado
Photo: Kikuko Usuyama
The main character is a female office worker in her 20s working in Tokyo.
He spends his days in a workplace filled with injustice, and his anger continues to burn silently.
One day, the person I met on a matching app turns out to be a mysterious killer.
The two of them ran at full speed, fought together with the enemy, and ran through the streets of Tokyo.
An exhilarating scenery that no one has ever seen appears…
I would like to introduce a sentence from the author Arite Mado’s “Award-Winning Words.”
“When I wrote this piece, I was angry.It’s something that adults would ignore and call me a full-fledged person, but every time I suddenly think about it, it definitely takes away something from me.” The anger felt like a small bone stuck in my throat. Is there anything I can do to ignore it? That small resistance was the starting point.”
For adults working in society today as well as students who have various troubles in human relationships,
I hope that people will read this novel regardless of their generation, gender, profession, etc.
After you get angry, worry, think, and fight hard, the world you’ve always wanted is waiting for you.
This is an entertaining novel filled with energy and courage that will make you believe that.
・About cover design
The cover design for the book “New me -Bungei x monogatary.com novel collection-” is released today!
Popular animator/illustrator Havtza did the cover art, and book designer Tomoshi Nojo (buku) was in charge of the book cover.
[Havtza SNS]
↓Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/havtza/
↓TikTok
https://www.tiktok.com/@havtza
・Book information
“New me -Bungei x monogatary.com novel collection-”
Author: Arutemado, Touou Reiou, Sakashima Tetra, Menoki Particle, Aoi Frog, Honjou Nanase, Fuyumura Unknown
Specifications: 46 size/Normal paper/256 pages
Cover art: Havtza
Book cover: Tomoshi Nojo (buku)
Planned price including tax: 1,397 yen (1,270 yen)
Release date: November 11, 2024 *E-books will also be on sale from the same day. Please check each e-book store for details.
ISBN:9784309039213
URL:https://www.kawade.co.jp/np/isbn/9784309039213/
■About Bungei
Bungei, a quarterly literary magazine published by Kawade Shobo Shinsha, which celebrated its 90th anniversary in 2023, is constantly bringing new talent to the world, including producing many Akutagawa Prize-winning authors. In 2019, a major renovation was carried out under the title “Literary Reboot.” The catchy design of the visuals and the detailed content have become a hot topic among not only book lovers but also many people, and the 2019 fall issue attracted attention even before its release and sold out in a few days, which is extremely unusual for a magazine. It became a print. The one and only literary magazine that continues to be a top runner as a medium that conveys the current state of literature. This time, at Monocon 2023, we will co-host the New Literature Award with monogatary.com, and “The Case of Hakusan Street Burning” will be selected as the grand prize winner. A collection of novels including the grand prize-winning works is scheduled to be published on November 11, 2024.
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■About YOASOBI
YOASOBI is a “unit that turns novels into music” consisting of composer Ayase and vocalist ikura. Their debut song “Yoru ni Kakeru”, released in November 2019, attracted attention immediately after its release, sweeping the number one spot on various domestic distribution charts, and currently the cumulative number of streaming views has exceeded 1 billion for the first time in history. The opening theme song “Idol” for the TV anime “Oshi no Ko” topped the Billboard JAPAN general song chart “JAPAN Hot 100” for 21 consecutive weeks, breaking the Billboard JAPAN record for consecutive top spots. In addition, the cumulative number of streaming views exceeded 400 million, the fastest in history. Furthermore, they topped the U.S. Billboard Global Chart “Global Excl. Continuing. In April 2024, they will perform at Coachella, one of the world’s largest festivals, held in California, and this fall, which marks their 5th anniversary, they are scheduled to hold a 4-day dome performance in Tokyo and Osaka. This time, for the first time in about 5 years, we are returning to our roots in “monocom”.
HP:https://www.yoasobi-music.jp
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■About monogatary.com
This is a novel posting site run by Sony Music Entertainment, where you can freely post your stories to the “themes” given by the company every day, and have fun making comments and reactions. The genres of submissions are diverse, including romance, horror, suspense, comedy, haiku, and poetry, with over 200,000 submissions. We are also focusing on creating works such as music, video, and comicalization based on submitted novels, and from the annual contest “Monocon 2019”, the debut song of YOASOBI, a unit that turns “novels” into music. The original novel of “Running at Night” was born. While creating many songs and works through a wide range of collaborations with artists, she has recently commercialized perfumes, breads, sweets, nail polish, etc. based on novels. At Monocon 2023, he will co-sponsor the Newcomer Award with the literary magazine Bungei, and the grand prize-winning work “Hakusan Dori Burning Case” will be made into a book and a song by YOASOBI. A novel submission site that continues to challenge unexpected forms of “story.”
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