キャロリング

by Hiro Arikawa, 有川 浩

クリスマスにもたらされるささやかな奇跡の連鎖―。有川浩が贈るハートフル・クリスマス。

Genres: Fiction

367 pages, Tankobon Hardcover

First published October 22, 2014

About the author

Hiro Arikawa won the tenth annual Dengeki Novel Prize for new writers for Shio no Machi: Wish on My Precious in 2003, and the book was published the following year. It was praised for its love story between a heroine and hero divided by age and social status, and for its depiction of military structures. Although she is a light novelist, her books from her second work onwards have been published as hardbacks alongside more literary works with Arikawa receiving special treatment in this respect from her publisher, MediaWorks. Shio no Machi was also later published in hardback. Her 2006 light novel Toshokan Sensō (The Library War) was named as Hon no Zasshi's number one for entertainment for the first half of 2006, and came fifth in the Honya Taishō for that year, competing against ordinary novels.

She often writes about the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) and her first three novels concerning its three branches are known as the Jieitai Sanbusaku (The SDF Trilogy); she also wrote about the fictional Library Forces in the Toshokan Sensō series. Raintree no Kuni, which first appeared as a book within a book in Toshokan Nairan was later published by Arikawa as a spin-off with another publisher. It was adapted into a film titled World of Delight released on November 21, 2015.[2][3]Her novel Shokubutsu Zukan (ja) will be adapted into a film titled Shokubutsu Zukan: Unmei no Koi, Hiroimashita and scheduled for release on June 4, 2016.

Reviews

[Miku · Rating 3 out of 5]

偶然12/24に図書館で見つけて読みました。内容がぴったりクリスマスイブだったので驚きました。
相変わらず、全てがきっちり収まって繋がってる作品でした。他の何作かにあるような、少女漫画的ドキドキはありません。ざっくりと、「いいことを信じて行動して行こう」と思いました(^^)/