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Shiki: Reprinted #1
屍鬼 1 [Shiki]
583 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1998
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Fuyumi Ono
167 books332 followersKanji Name: 小野 不由美.
Fuyumi Ono (小野 不由美, Ono Fuyumi) is a Japanese novelist who is best known for writing the Twelve Kingdoms (十二国記, Juuni Kokuki) series, on which a popular anime is based. Her name after marriage is Fuyumi Uchida (内田不由美, Uchida Fuyumi), but she writes under her maiden name.
Ono was born in Nakatsu, Ōita, Kyūshū in 1960. She graduated from Ōtani University in Kyōto with a degree in Buddhist Studies, and in 1988 was employed by the publisher Kōdansha. Her debut story is titled Sleepless on Birthday Eve.
Ono is married to Naoyuki Uchida (内田直行, Uchida Naoyuki), a mystery novelist who writes under the pseudonym Yukito Ayatsuji (綾辻行人 , Ayatsuji Yukito).
Before she started work on Twelve Kingdoms, Fuyumi Ono wrote The Demonic Child (魔性の子), a horror novel about a boy from another world. She later worked certain events from this novel into the Twelve Kingdoms series. Short stories set in the various kingdoms include: Kasho, Toei, Shokan, Kizan and Jogetsu. In February, 2008, the first new Twelve Kingdoms short story, Hisho no Tori (丕緒の鳥) was published in Shinchosha's Yomyom magazine.
According to an interview at the Anime News Network, she is "currently rewriting a girls' horror series (she) wrote long ago."
- Wikipedia
Fuyumi Ono (小野 不由美, Ono Fuyumi) is a Japanese novelist who is best known for writing the Twelve Kingdoms (十二国記, Juuni Kokuki) series, on which a popular anime is based. Her name after marriage is Fuyumi Uchida (内田不由美, Uchida Fuyumi), but she writes under her maiden name.
Ono was born in Nakatsu, Ōita, Kyūshū in 1960. She graduated from Ōtani University in Kyōto with a degree in Buddhist Studies, and in 1988 was employed by the publisher Kōdansha. Her debut story is titled Sleepless on Birthday Eve.
Ono is married to Naoyuki Uchida (内田直行, Uchida Naoyuki), a mystery novelist who writes under the pseudonym Yukito Ayatsuji (綾辻行人 , Ayatsuji Yukito).
Before she started work on Twelve Kingdoms, Fuyumi Ono wrote The Demonic Child (魔性の子), a horror novel about a boy from another world. She later worked certain events from this novel into the Twelve Kingdoms series. Short stories set in the various kingdoms include: Kasho, Toei, Shokan, Kizan and Jogetsu. In February, 2008, the first new Twelve Kingdoms short story, Hisho no Tori (丕緒の鳥) was published in Shinchosha's Yomyom magazine.
According to an interview at the Anime News Network, she is "currently rewriting a girls' horror series (she) wrote long ago."
- Wikipedia
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June 11, 2021
3.5*
Fuyumi Ono's Shiki is an epic tale of horror surrounding a village one particular hot summer in 1984. It seemed that the first volume was all about building the foundation for the latter books by acquainting the readers with the village called Sotoba. The characters were fleshed out quite well (and boy, there were a lot of them). Granted, the pacing felt absurdly slow at times, but it didn't seem to bother me all that much. The creepy atmosphere and the constant feeling that something very strange was going on here was right up my alley. Not to mention, Shiki was filled with intricate medical and cultural knowledge, which I appreciated a lot. Will be keeping my eyes on the next volumes and hopefully pick them up soon.
Fuyumi Ono's Shiki is an epic tale of horror surrounding a village one particular hot summer in 1984. It seemed that the first volume was all about building the foundation for the latter books by acquainting the readers with the village called Sotoba. The characters were fleshed out quite well (and boy, there were a lot of them). Granted, the pacing felt absurdly slow at times, but it didn't seem to bother me all that much. The creepy atmosphere and the constant feeling that something very strange was going on here was right up my alley. Not to mention, Shiki was filled with intricate medical and cultural knowledge, which I appreciated a lot. Will be keeping my eyes on the next volumes and hopefully pick them up soon.
April 1, 2016
Avniel Green
Book Project/Review
Shiki By: Fuyumi Ono
Shiki is a manga book that was released in 2002. What I find interesting about this author’s manga is the art style and how the story is told.
The story takes place around the 1990’s around a small town. The main character, Natsuno Yukki. Natsuno moved from the city and now lives in a small town. He met a guy named Tooruh. They both became friends. Since Tooruh can relate, since he was born and lived in the town, he has gotten used to the town. He got used to the town, but he knows some unredeeming qualities of the town.
There are other characters in the book that are important to the story. There is a girl named Megumi. She is love with Yukki, but he does not like her because she is very annoying. Megumi has a friend named Kaori and they both do not really get along with one another, but they are still friends. Kaori has a younger sister named Akira. So there is a priest that lives in the town named Seishirou and he befriends one of the Kirishikis’s daughters, Sunako. She is a Shiki herself. They all work together to make the story interesting and complex.
After settling in, in the town, a lot of mysterious deaths occur. The deaths started to happen after a small family, called the Kirishikis moved into a giant castle that was just built. So a lot of deaths started to happen and a doctor thought that it was an epidemic, but he was not sure. The real truth is that Kirishkis are really vampires. Originally, they were humans but since they all died because they were bitten by vampires they rose from the dead.
Since all of the people that died, by getting bitten by vampires, they are now vampires, too.
I enjoyed reading this book because it was interesting for myself to discover by the deaths were occurring and it is exciting when a plot point in revealed. I really enjoyed the art style. The characters were interesting and they were mostly because I liked the types of lives that they lived and it made me want to know more about them.
I recommend this book for people who are interested in a unique horror manga. If you want to see characters with crazy hair styles, this is the book for you! I would give this 4.5/5 stars. I also recommend that you watch the anime since it would interest a reader to see their favorite manga as an anime in order to see how the art style can be animated.
Book Project/Review
Shiki By: Fuyumi Ono
Shiki is a manga book that was released in 2002. What I find interesting about this author’s manga is the art style and how the story is told.
The story takes place around the 1990’s around a small town. The main character, Natsuno Yukki. Natsuno moved from the city and now lives in a small town. He met a guy named Tooruh. They both became friends. Since Tooruh can relate, since he was born and lived in the town, he has gotten used to the town. He got used to the town, but he knows some unredeeming qualities of the town.
There are other characters in the book that are important to the story. There is a girl named Megumi. She is love with Yukki, but he does not like her because she is very annoying. Megumi has a friend named Kaori and they both do not really get along with one another, but they are still friends. Kaori has a younger sister named Akira. So there is a priest that lives in the town named Seishirou and he befriends one of the Kirishikis’s daughters, Sunako. She is a Shiki herself. They all work together to make the story interesting and complex.
After settling in, in the town, a lot of mysterious deaths occur. The deaths started to happen after a small family, called the Kirishikis moved into a giant castle that was just built. So a lot of deaths started to happen and a doctor thought that it was an epidemic, but he was not sure. The real truth is that Kirishkis are really vampires. Originally, they were humans but since they all died because they were bitten by vampires they rose from the dead.
Since all of the people that died, by getting bitten by vampires, they are now vampires, too.
I enjoyed reading this book because it was interesting for myself to discover by the deaths were occurring and it is exciting when a plot point in revealed. I really enjoyed the art style. The characters were interesting and they were mostly because I liked the types of lives that they lived and it made me want to know more about them.
I recommend this book for people who are interested in a unique horror manga. If you want to see characters with crazy hair styles, this is the book for you! I would give this 4.5/5 stars. I also recommend that you watch the anime since it would interest a reader to see their favorite manga as an anime in order to see how the art style can be animated.
November 24, 2017
The story line is complicated and has its own pace. Be patient, you will be rewarded with amazing medical, cultural and psychological plot. The human interaction in this novel is just too realistic to be a novel. No plot is a filler, it is just a support plot to a bigger picture.
January 17, 2025
3.5*
Fuyumi Ono's Shiki is an epic tale of horror surrounding a village one particular hot summer in 1984. It seemed that the first volume was all about building the foundation for the latter books by acquainting the readers with the village called Sotoba. The characters were fleshed out quite well (and boy, there were a lot of them). Granted, the pacing felt absurdly slow at times, but it didn't seem to bother me all that much. The creepy atmosphere and the constant feeling that something very strange was going on here was right up my alley. Not to mention, Shiki was filled with intricate medical and cultural knowledge, which I appreciated a lot. Will be keeping my eyes on the next volumes and hopefully pick them up soon.
Fuyumi Ono's Shiki is an epic tale of horror surrounding a village one particular hot summer in 1984. It seemed that the first volume was all about building the foundation for the latter books by acquainting the readers with the village called Sotoba. The characters were fleshed out quite well (and boy, there were a lot of them). Granted, the pacing felt absurdly slow at times, but it didn't seem to bother me all that much. The creepy atmosphere and the constant feeling that something very strange was going on here was right up my alley. Not to mention, Shiki was filled with intricate medical and cultural knowledge, which I appreciated a lot. Will be keeping my eyes on the next volumes and hopefully pick them up soon.
July 17, 2025
**For readers in Japanese
This is a classic Japanese horror novel. It gets surprisingly far in the first volume, but this series is dense. The vocabulary isn't too bad, but there are some crazy words now and then, usually related to religion or archaic language written by one of the characters who is a novelist.
This is a classic Japanese horror novel. It gets surprisingly far in the first volume, but this series is dense. The vocabulary isn't too bad, but there are some crazy words now and then, usually related to religion or archaic language written by one of the characters who is a novelist.
October 21, 2019
This book is very very slow, but I haven't lost interest yet. I'm looking forward to reading the second volume.
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