Yattoko Detective was the starting point of Kageki Shimoda's career. Borrowing the frame of detective fiction, it portrays the comic awkwardness and pathos of ordinary people, with a lightness that anticipates his later range.

Kageki Shimoda's debut work, mixing humor and pathos through the form of a detective story.

Requiem Summer is recorded as a Shosetsu Gendai Newcomer Award work. Its title suggests a lyrical fiction in which prayer for the dead intersects with summer memory. In the context of the prize, it belongs to the magazine culture that sought out new storytellers.

A newcomer-award work that links summer memory with the feeling of requiem.