Cannonball Read 18

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No Longer Human indeed

No Longer Human Vol. 1 by Junji Ito

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I’d seen the original novel in the #BookTok section at Books-a-Million, so this manga caught my eye when I was scanning the manga shelves at FYE. I didn’t have the money for this massive manga, but I did manage to find at least one volume of it to read online, and it was an experience. This is easily the most depraved thing I’ve read this year, and I’m afraid to read any further. It’s the stuff of nightmares. Remember how I said I’d be here all […]

The Humanity of No Longer Human

No Longer Human by Dazai Osamu

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  The path that led me to reading Dazai Osamu’s No Longer Human was paved by anime. My pandemic-fueled internet immersion led me to an anime called Bungou Stray Dogs (Literary Stray Dogs), which re-imagines famous Japanese writers as seinen characters whose powers and personalities derive from the writers’ works and lives. It’s tremendously popular in Japan, Russia, and Brazil, but less so in the Anglophonic world. The second season introduces American writers, and is unsurprisingly the best-loved by the American audience. For me, it’s […]

Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

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This is a short novel written in 1948 by the Japanese author Osamu Dazai. This is probably his most well known, but he’s apparently many more. My brief research into this author says that he’s influential especially for Yukio Mishima. This is a book that feels a lot like Camus’s The Stranger. We are reading the notebooks of a damaged young man who is journaling his thoughts leading up to a decision to commit suicide (which he does not follow through with) which also leads […]



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