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アフターブル [After Blue]

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選考委員瞠目! 第19回小説現代長編新人賞受賞作
今村翔吾さん「執念の如き力を感じた」
塩田武士さん「朝宮さんの『業』に、私は期待している」
中島京子さん「チャレンジングな作品」
凪良ゆうさん「著者にしか書けない光と闇」
宮内悠介さん「シンプルに心を動かされた」
薬丸岳さん「一番に推した」

5人の納棺師たちは全力を尽くす。遺された人々が、最後に顔を見てお別れを言えるように。

「どんなに考えても、探しても、人が死んだ理由なんて絶対に見つからないんだよ」

納棺師、遺品整理士、生花装飾技能士……葬儀関係のプロ集団「株式会社C・F・C」。
とりわけ損傷の激しい遺体を専門に扱う「二課」は、無残な状態から生前の面影を復元するのがミッション。
事故、事件、自殺ーー二課には毎日のように遺体が運ばれてくる。入学式を明日に控え線路に正座していた少年、ゴミ屋敷で餓死した男性、幼い我が子を残して事故に遭った母親、飛び降りる瞬間を動画配信していた少女ーー
二課の納棺師たちはその手で、失われた生前のおもかげを復元していく。

愛する人が突然この世を去った時、どうすれば立ち上がれるのか。あの人はなぜ命を絶ったのか。遺された者はどう生きればいいのか。
それぞれに「喪失」を抱えた納棺師たちもまた、明日を生きる微かな光を見出していく。

280 pages, Paperback

First published July 16, 2025

About the author

Yu Asagiri

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Blood type: O

Yū Asagiri (あさぎり夕, Asagiri Yū), born Yuriko Takano (高野夕里子, Takano Yuriko), who also writes as Yū Asagiri (朝霧夕, Asagiri Yū), is a Japanese mangaka from Tokyo, Japan. She made her professional manga debut in 1976. Asagiri received the 1987 Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo for Nana Iru Majikku ("Seven Colors Magic"). Her other works include Golden Cain, Midnight Panther. She provided the art for Kirara Boshi no Daiyogen, with the story by Kyoko Mizuki.

Asagiri Yuu debuted on Nakayoshi in 1977 with Hikari mezashite tonde yuke. She won the 11th Koudansha annual manga award with the work Nana iro magic in 1987. Asagiri is good at drawing pretty people and using SD-characters at appropriate times, and has a flair for fashion. Focusing on shoujo-manga, most of her works are published by Koudansha, but recently she made a vague comment about wanting to be free and try something new. Her newest works are now published in Shoujo Friend & Shoujo Comic. There is also an Asagiri Yuu (name spelled differently with kanji, 朝霧夕) who published some "racy" stuff.

After she had a car accident and was in hospital, Asagiri realized that she should write the stories she always wanted to do rather than the shoujo-manga she was "forced to do". She then started to do adult stuff.

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