Hideki Matsumura’s winner of the Shosetsu Gendai Newcomer Award. As the title suggests, it is an unusual work that connects bodily sensation with cerebral imagery.

An award-winning debut work with a title that suggests a descent into the depths of perception.

The Shosetsu Gendai Newcomer Award-winning work through which Nobuaki Kishima made his debut as a novelist. It is an early fiction piece that hints at the narrative craft he would later bring to many anime screenplays.

An award-winning fiction work that marks the starting point of a writer later known for screenwriting.