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榎田尤利作品集 #3
聖夜 榎田尤利作品集
誰かを傷つけても、気にしない人間になりたい
自分勝手で、強靭な心が欲しい
設計事務所で働く縞岡は、婚約者と訪ねたマンションの内覧会で、十年ぶりに雨宮那智、アマチと再会した。十六から十七にかけてのふたりの時間は、北の地の短い夏のような輝きがあった。長い空白の時間を越えて、再会したときから、縞岡はアマチに触れたくてたまらなくなった。那智は縞岡が恋しくてたまらなくなった。会わないほうがいい。でも、会いたい。会いたくて、たまらない―傷つけながら、傷つきながら、恋は深まり…
『聖夜』『名前のない色』に加え、書き下ろし『GRAY』を同時収録。
自分勝手で、強靭な心が欲しい
設計事務所で働く縞岡は、婚約者と訪ねたマンションの内覧会で、十年ぶりに雨宮那智、アマチと再会した。十六から十七にかけてのふたりの時間は、北の地の短い夏のような輝きがあった。長い空白の時間を越えて、再会したときから、縞岡はアマチに触れたくてたまらなくなった。那智は縞岡が恋しくてたまらなくなった。会わないほうがいい。でも、会いたい。会いたくて、たまらない―傷つけながら、傷つきながら、恋は深まり…
『聖夜』『名前のない色』に加え、書き下ろし『GRAY』を同時収録。
380 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 2012
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About the author
榎田尤利
107 books1 follower Yuuri Eda is a Japanese Light Novel writer.
The genre of her works is Boys Love (BL).
Her debut novel is「夏の塩」(2000).
Yuuri Eda was one of the disciples of Azusa Nakajima ( 中島 梓, pen name of Kaoru Kurimoto / 栗本 薫.
She uses the pen name 榎田ユウリ for her general audience (not BL) works.
※Her two names in Romanization are the same.
榎田 尤利（えだ ゆうり）は、日本のボーイズラブ小説家。
7月16日生まれ、蟹座、O型。
2000年「夏の塩」（成美堂出版 クリスタル文庫）にてデビュー。同作品は、1996年『小説JUNE』77号に掲載。
『小説JUNE』にて連載されていた投稿作批評コラム「中島 梓 (栗本薫の別名義)の小説道場」の門下生。文章力に定評があり、物語性のある作品が多い。シリアスからコメディまで、作風は多様性に富む。
BL以外のライトノベル作品は、〝榎田 ユウリ〟で執筆している。
The genre of her works is Boys Love (BL).
Her debut novel is「夏の塩」(2000).
Yuuri Eda was one of the disciples of Azusa Nakajima ( 中島 梓, pen name of Kaoru Kurimoto / 栗本 薫.
She uses the pen name 榎田ユウリ for her general audience (not BL) works.
※Her two names in Romanization are the same.
榎田 尤利（えだ ゆうり）は、日本のボーイズラブ小説家。
7月16日生まれ、蟹座、O型。
2000年「夏の塩」（成美堂出版 クリスタル文庫）にてデビュー。同作品は、1996年『小説JUNE』77号に掲載。
『小説JUNE』にて連載されていた投稿作批評コラム「中島 梓 (栗本薫の別名義)の小説道場」の門下生。文章力に定評があり、物語性のある作品が多い。シリアスからコメディまで、作風は多様性に富む。
BL以外のライトノベル作品は、〝榎田 ユウリ〟で執筆している。
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March 8, 2015
Yoneda Kou and Eda Yuuri - a combination of two of my favourite creators can only result in something good, right?
Yes.
This volume is one of four reissues of Eda Yuuri's earlier works and collects two stories: "名前のない色" and "Holy night 聖夜".
While the two stories don't belong together, the have something in common: in both stories, there is a couple that has been in love with each other since high school, and in both stories, the couple loses sight of each other for a while - and when they reunite, one of them already is married, or about to get married.
In the first story, that couple isn't the main couple - but in a way, they could be seen as "what if?" mirror stories, so to collect them in one volume not only makes sense but enriches them.
The first story is centered around Fujino and Misakubo. Fujino is an editor at a small publishing company and Misakubo the illustrator he has picked for his next - first real - project. Dismissing the warnings of his superior and the writer, who both know that Misakubo has major problems working during the summer, Fujino starts working with him - only to be seduced by Misakubo during their second meeting. The two of them start sleeping together, but while Fujino finds himself falling more and more for Misakubo, the latter is still hung up Shiba, on his first love: in high school, they both had feelings for each other, but never acted on it. When they reunited, years later, they finally got together - but Misakubo soon had to find out that Shiba was already married. Still, he couldn't bring himself to let go and the two of them carried on their affair - until one day Shiba's wife turned up at Misakubo's doorstep which Shiba's son in her arms - a son old enough to be born before Shiba and he had reunited. Faced with the choice between his family and his lover, Shiba didn't even properly make a choice and instead just sort of slunk away. Five years later, Misakubo is still waiting for him, with his feelings frozen in time - until Fujino comes into his life. It takes a while and quite a bit of drama for them to come to a place where they both realize and admit to their feelings, but it's a very satisfying love story with two lovable main characters. Fujino is an adorable seme, and even when he loses control one time, it's not in a way I find unforgivable (meaning he realizes what he's doing is wrong, apologizes for it and seems unlikely to do something like that again). At first I wasn't sure what to think of Misakubo, but I ended up liking him a lot, too.
While the first story is a more conventional romance story, the second is more reminiscent of "Natsu no Shio" and "Natsu no Kodomo" in that it isn't just a love story. Told in four parts, we meet the two main characters Shima and Amachi when they are 17, 27, 37 and 47.
At 17, they are in love, but haven't told each other yet. They've kissed, and fooled around, but when Amachi's parents get divorced he moves with his mother to Tokyo, leaving Shima behind in Sapporo. Shima tries to get in touch with Amachi once, but when there's no reply, he isn't sure whether Amachi wants to be in contact with him. Still, he never really stops thinking about him.
At 27, they meet when Shima and his fiancée Momoko are looking at an apartment and Amachi is the realtor responsible for the project. Amachi himself has a boyfriend. Still, they both realize they're still in love with each other - but their situation makes it impossible to be together without hurting anyone else, and they both are unwilling to do so - especially Amachi, who not only feels guilty because he was one of the reasons his mother's second marriage was unsuccessful as well but whose current boyfriend also cut his ties with his wife and his daughter to be with him. So the two of them spend one night together, only to never meet again after that.
And once again ten years pass. In those ten years, lots of things happen. Even though things are going well with Amachi and his boyfriend, they end up breaking up after seven years. Amachi leaves Tokyo to go back to Hokkaido, only to find there is nothing and no one waiting for him. Drifting aimlessly through life, one day he accidentally meets a travel photographer who ends up taking him to Okinawa and it's there were Amachi settles down and figures himself out. Meanwhile, Shima's marriage isn't going so well - not because of Amachi, but because Shima is unable to support his wife in her choices. They have a daughter, and they try, but ultimately their marriage fails.
And then, when one day Shima accidentally meets Amachi's former boyfriend in town and hears that Amachi is single again, he starts looking for him. But the last thing anyone's heard Amachi was in Hokkaido - and when Shima follows him there he isn't to be found anywhere..
What I loved about the story - apart from Shima and especially Amachi - was that it was a story about how life doesn't necessarily have a happy ending and you can still have a happy life. Of course there's the love story ending for Shima and Amachi - but the life they had before wasn't bad either. Neither was it perfect - but it was life. I also liked that Shima actually realizes it wasn't just because he respected Amachi's choice that he gave up on him when he was 27 - he also was a coward. I don't think that's something to be ashamed of, really - I do think the pressure to live a "normal life" can be difficult to resist. Considering the time it was set - it begins in 1981 - it's even more understandable. But I do respect that unlike Shiba in the first novel Shima doesn't try to have both at the cost of anyone else's feelings - and he doesn't lie to Amachi about it (that really is the thing I found most unforgivable about Shiba's actions).
The last chapter is set when Shima and Amachi are 47 and it's really lovely and gentle and the perfect end note to their story.
Yoneda Kou's illustrations are very lovely and fit the mood of the stories perfectly. There honestly isn't anything that's not to love about this book.
Yes.
This volume is one of four reissues of Eda Yuuri's earlier works and collects two stories: "名前のない色" and "Holy night 聖夜".
While the two stories don't belong together, the have something in common: in both stories, there is a couple that has been in love with each other since high school, and in both stories, the couple loses sight of each other for a while - and when they reunite, one of them already is married, or about to get married.
In the first story, that couple isn't the main couple - but in a way, they could be seen as "what if?" mirror stories, so to collect them in one volume not only makes sense but enriches them.
The first story is centered around Fujino and Misakubo. Fujino is an editor at a small publishing company and Misakubo the illustrator he has picked for his next - first real - project. Dismissing the warnings of his superior and the writer, who both know that Misakubo has major problems working during the summer, Fujino starts working with him - only to be seduced by Misakubo during their second meeting. The two of them start sleeping together, but while Fujino finds himself falling more and more for Misakubo, the latter is still hung up Shiba, on his first love: in high school, they both had feelings for each other, but never acted on it. When they reunited, years later, they finally got together - but Misakubo soon had to find out that Shiba was already married. Still, he couldn't bring himself to let go and the two of them carried on their affair - until one day Shiba's wife turned up at Misakubo's doorstep which Shiba's son in her arms - a son old enough to be born before Shiba and he had reunited. Faced with the choice between his family and his lover, Shiba didn't even properly make a choice and instead just sort of slunk away. Five years later, Misakubo is still waiting for him, with his feelings frozen in time - until Fujino comes into his life. It takes a while and quite a bit of drama for them to come to a place where they both realize and admit to their feelings, but it's a very satisfying love story with two lovable main characters. Fujino is an adorable seme, and even when he loses control one time, it's not in a way I find unforgivable (meaning he realizes what he's doing is wrong, apologizes for it and seems unlikely to do something like that again). At first I wasn't sure what to think of Misakubo, but I ended up liking him a lot, too.
While the first story is a more conventional romance story, the second is more reminiscent of "Natsu no Shio" and "Natsu no Kodomo" in that it isn't just a love story. Told in four parts, we meet the two main characters Shima and Amachi when they are 17, 27, 37 and 47.
At 17, they are in love, but haven't told each other yet. They've kissed, and fooled around, but when Amachi's parents get divorced he moves with his mother to Tokyo, leaving Shima behind in Sapporo. Shima tries to get in touch with Amachi once, but when there's no reply, he isn't sure whether Amachi wants to be in contact with him. Still, he never really stops thinking about him.
At 27, they meet when Shima and his fiancée Momoko are looking at an apartment and Amachi is the realtor responsible for the project. Amachi himself has a boyfriend. Still, they both realize they're still in love with each other - but their situation makes it impossible to be together without hurting anyone else, and they both are unwilling to do so - especially Amachi, who not only feels guilty because he was one of the reasons his mother's second marriage was unsuccessful as well but whose current boyfriend also cut his ties with his wife and his daughter to be with him. So the two of them spend one night together, only to never meet again after that.
And once again ten years pass. In those ten years, lots of things happen. Even though things are going well with Amachi and his boyfriend, they end up breaking up after seven years. Amachi leaves Tokyo to go back to Hokkaido, only to find there is nothing and no one waiting for him. Drifting aimlessly through life, one day he accidentally meets a travel photographer who ends up taking him to Okinawa and it's there were Amachi settles down and figures himself out. Meanwhile, Shima's marriage isn't going so well - not because of Amachi, but because Shima is unable to support his wife in her choices. They have a daughter, and they try, but ultimately their marriage fails.
And then, when one day Shima accidentally meets Amachi's former boyfriend in town and hears that Amachi is single again, he starts looking for him. But the last thing anyone's heard Amachi was in Hokkaido - and when Shima follows him there he isn't to be found anywhere..
What I loved about the story - apart from Shima and especially Amachi - was that it was a story about how life doesn't necessarily have a happy ending and you can still have a happy life. Of course there's the love story ending for Shima and Amachi - but the life they had before wasn't bad either. Neither was it perfect - but it was life. I also liked that Shima actually realizes it wasn't just because he respected Amachi's choice that he gave up on him when he was 27 - he also was a coward. I don't think that's something to be ashamed of, really - I do think the pressure to live a "normal life" can be difficult to resist. Considering the time it was set - it begins in 1981 - it's even more understandable. But I do respect that unlike Shiba in the first novel Shima doesn't try to have both at the cost of anyone else's feelings - and he doesn't lie to Amachi about it (that really is the thing I found most unforgivable about Shiba's actions).
The last chapter is set when Shima and Amachi are 47 and it's really lovely and gentle and the perfect end note to their story.
Yoneda Kou's illustrations are very lovely and fit the mood of the stories perfectly. There honestly isn't anything that's not to love about this book.
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