Artist : Yasutaka Tsutsui
Translator : Kim Young-Ju
Publisher : Bookstory
Release Year : June, 2007(Kor), 1965(Japan)
Page: 282
Collection
The Little Girl who Conquered Time
Nightmare
The Other World
The Little Girl who Conquered Time
Attractive combination of a material which is time machine, and love story, and impressive ending are the reason why it was loved for a long time that is the classic of Japanese SF. Since it first came out in 1965, it had remade several times for novel, drama, movie, comic, and animation. In ths, includes title "The Girl who Leapt through Time", total three novels which were written by Yasutaka Tsutsui.
Yasutaka Tsutsui(筒 井康隆) - He was born in Osaka in 1934. Educated at Doshisha University B.A in Aesthetics. He had often written a scenario in his university days. His works are, <4.8 Billion Delusions>, <The Tokaido War>, <Paprika>, <Picture Book of Vulgarity>, <Samba of Running and Chasing>, <End of the Silver Age>, <The Little Girl Who Conquered Time>, etc.
Source : "좋은 책을 고르는 방법, 알라딘"( http://www.aladdin.co.kr/ )
by Young
I read this after I watched the animation, so maybe, the review order may be, Novel -> Comic -> Movie -> Animation.
Im going to write the review of animation, actually, there are lots of vague parts when I watch the animation in a cinema. Later, I got it from dark market and watched it one more time. In this time, I understood a little more than before, but still have something to wonder.
So, that's why I bought this novel.
I DO NOT think that this animation is interesting(Of course, it's interesting, but not such as the other people recommend) and this also, is not so interesting as I thought. Maybe, after passing through the translation and edition might be reason, at least, I CAN NOT understand why It's great that was released to take advantage of the animation.
It's the base of the animation "時をかける少女", and it has happend 20 years ago from the animation. The main character is, Kazuya(In the novel, translated Kazuko) who was aunt of Makoto who the main character of animation.
As a whole, the plot was worked speedy, and I felt too short, and the puppy love of main characters which were shown in the animation, is to bring from original, but how to say.... it's like simple answer question(?). It's like, I like you but the way of saying is emotionless, just to say disdainfully. It's such as this kind of love story. It was not shown ardently and tantalizingly as animation.
Probably, the ad is flash, my expectaion might react I think.
Nightmare which was included this, is about, Masako who is a main character, has trauma. But unlike the fame that the author is a pioneer of literature of Japanese SF, it's not like SF, it's like usual horror thriller in Japanese style. And also, unlike delicacy, it's very simple and vain.
However, most like SF is, The Other World which is last one, but ,what the problem is... It finishes without conclusion. I don't know whether it has next work or not, but... while I was feeling that it's nice, it finished..so you might feel nonplused.
Each person has their own style, so I can't say which one is good or not, but in my opinion, if you like something which the others like, you can enjoy it, but it's still not my style, and I don't recommend it.
