Last and First Idol

EPUB, 278 pages

English language

Published Sept. 16, 2018 by J-Novel Club.

ISBN:
978-1-7183-0162-7
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ISFDB ID:
2446040
Goodreads:
40950781

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5 stars (1 review)

"Bye-bye, Earth! My idol activities here were so much fun!"

  • 4th Hayakawa SF Contest Special Prize
  • 48th Seiun Award (Japanese Short Story Division)
  • 27th Dark Seiun Award (Guest Division)
  • 16th Sense of Gender Award (Future Idol Award)

Last and First Idol earned the first ever special prize in the Hayakawa SF Contest, and the first debut work to win the Seiun Award in 42 years! This existential widescreen yuri baroque proletariat hard sci-fi idol story has carved out a new legend in science fiction history! Also includes Evolution Girls, in which some gacha-expert friends race to find the truth of the universe, and Dark Seiyuu, a brand-new space opera about voice actors! Gengen Kusano’s astounding debut collection!

3 editions

Girl power to the nth

5 stars

In these post-modern times, its not unheard of people mixing different interests into their work. But this "widescreen yuri baroque" is next level, which is the author's definition of these short stories. Sounds utter nonsense at first but makes perfect sense afterwards. Happily mixing dry and cebebral hardcore scifi with colourfully anarchistic anime action, the stories escalate logarithmically until we're bombarded with truth supernovas. The perverse part? It somehow all works. Usually joke concepts run out of steam or feel lazy, since anybody can write a joke story, but here the author is committed til the satisfying end, providing commentaries on society and cultural phenomenoms.

If you're in any way interested, give this a shot. I do have to warn that there's a lot of depictions of gory violence and bodily functions, so if you're a bit squeamish on that front, well: you were warned.