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Yasunori Shinana

しなな やすのり

Shinana Yasunori

Profile

Gender
Unknown
Nationality
Japan
Languages
Japanese

Career

Occupations
Novelist, Light novel author
Active Years
2008-

Awards

Super Dash Novel Rookie Award
2008
Work: Sweets!
Category: 佳作
Organization: Shueisha
Result: 佳作(honorable mention)

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Sweets!

2008 Romantic comedy

Shosuke Kimura, an ordinary second-year high school student in the art club, visits his uncle's house for summer and encounters Mai Umino, a girl who emerges from a guardian statue at a local shrine. Mai belongs to an organization that manages girls possessing mysterious abilities called "Sweets," and Shosuke ends up assisting her to calm those afflicted by such powers.

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Bibliography

  • Sweets! (Super Dash Bunko) Shueisha, 2008-09-25. ISBN 978-4-08-630445-0

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Light-novel style with a witty, brisk narrationBlend of comedy and youthful slice-of-life depiction
Recurring Motifs
Sweets (abilities)High school lifeLove-protection motifs

Legacy

Sweets! is a light novel published in 2008 that received an honorable mention in the 7th Super Dash Novel Rookie Award and achieved modest recognition among light novel readers. The available documentation is limited and related articles remain stub-class.

Trivia

  • The Wikipedia entry for the work is currently classed as a stub.
  • The listed illustrator 'Kashiwamochi Yomogi' does not have an existing dedicated page (red link).
  • There are inconsistencies in bibliographic attributions in available references.