Each work on AniNovel, introduced one at a time. Read with anime-style speech bubbles and narration.
Nobby
A businesswoman in a black suit steps off the edge of a tenth-floor roof. Aimi, who saw it happen, goes to the…
Osamu Dazai
The opening line has already set the story running. Melos, a shepherd, loses his temper with a king who has st…
Kenji Miyazawa
Two gentlemen, lost in the mountains, come upon a handsome Western restaurant. Each door they pass carries a n…
Edogawa Rampo
On the train home from watching a mirage at Uozu, the narrator shares a carriage with a strange man carrying a…
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
A servant, dismissed and with nowhere to go, shelters from the rain under the ruined Rashōmon gate. Climbing t…
Lafcadio Hearn
Caught in a blizzard, two woodcutters shelter in a ferryman's hut. The younger, Minokichi, wakes to find a wom…
Kenji Miyazawa
Giovanni, a boy with too much work and too little money, finds himself aboard a train crossing the Milky Way. …
Sōseki Natsume
A nameless cat takes up residence with Kushami, a schoolmaster of English, and watches the people who drift th…
Sōseki Natsume
A headstrong Tokyoite takes a post teaching mathematics at a middle school in Shikoku. Redshirt, Clown, Porcup…
Kunio Kishida
The playwright Kunio Kishida on the words that are spoken on a stage: what happens to a written line once it p…
Kidō Okamoto
Kidō Okamoto, best known for the Hanshichi detective stories, remembering the Tokyo he grew up in as it turned…
Osamu Dazai
Five siblings take turns carrying a single story forward. The eldest brother is solemn and theoretical, the se…