No English yet
Akutagawa 2018 (second half) · Candidate
ジャップ・ン・ロール・ヒーロー
Jappu n rōru hīrō
Title translated by AI:“Jap'n'Roll Hero”
Rui Kounoike · 31 when first published
Novel · 152 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:A Keio student who can barely play claims to know Dantula Deo, an '80s band that made it abroad then vanished; when his guitarist friend posts 'recreated' songs online and lands a record deal, their game with a made-up band is drawn into a historic information war.