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Gen Shiraiwa

白岩玄

Born 1983 · Japan

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    Akutagawa 2004 (second half) · Candidate

    野ブタ。をプロデュース

    Nobuta o purodyūsu

    Title translated by AI:“Producing Nobuta”

    Gen Shiraiwa · 21 when first published

    Novel · 186 pages · Coming of age

    AI-generated summary:Shuji Kiritani, the effortlessly popular boy of his class who privately treats life as a game, takes on Nobuta, a bullied new transfer student, as his project and sets out to turn him into a star.