乗代雄介
Born 1986 · Japan
Akutagawa 2024 (second half) · Candidate
Nijūshigo
Title translated by AI:“Twenty-Four or Five”
Yusuke Norishiro · 38 when first published
Novel · 109 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Two years after moving out, a young novelist in her mid-twenties travels to Sendai for her brother's wedding, retracing signs of an aunt lost five years ago whose love for her still catches her off guard.
Akutagawa 2023 (first half) · Candidate
Sore wa makoto
Title translated by AI:“That's Sincere”
Yusuke Norishiro · 37 when first published
Novel · 177 pages · Coming of age
AI-generated summary:On a school trip to Tokyo, seventeen-year-old Makoto Sada spends the free day with the odd seven-person group he has been assigned to, secretly hoping to visit the uncle he loved and was separated from, in a small adventure kept from the teachers.
Akutagawa 2021 (second half) · Candidate
Mina no arabashiri
Title translated by AI:“Everyone's First Pressing”
Yusuke Norishiro · 35 when first published
Novel · 133 pages · Historical, Coming of age
AI-generated summary:A schoolboy from the history club encounters a shady middle-aged stranger at the site of Minagawa Castle, who grabs a list of books held by an old local household and singles out a title by Ozu Hisatari found in no other record, and the two investigate whether it is a lost book or a fake.
Akutagawa 2020 (second half) · Candidate
旅する練習 · Tabisuru renshū
Yusuke Norishiro · 34 when first published
Novel · 184 pages · Coming of age, Nature
AI-generated summary:With her spring plans wiped out by the 2020 pandemic, a soccer-mad girl about to start secondary school walks with her novelist uncle beside the Tone River toward the Kashima Antlers' stadium, she kicking a ball, he writing.
Akutagawa 2019 (second half) · Candidate
Saikō no ninmu
Title translated by AI:“The Finest Mission”
Yusuke Norishiro · 33 when first published
Novel · 183 pages · Family, Coming of age
AI-generated summary:About to graduate, a young woman rereads the childhood diary she kept in a notebook from her late aunt, and remembers her.