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At Keio University, a student with almost no musical skill meets Kisaburo, a guitarist who asks whether he knows Dantula Deo, an '80s band that found success overseas before disappearing, rumoured to have been spies wiped out by the CIA. He bluffs that he does, and they form a band copying songs no one can check: Kisaburo claims to have rebuilt them by ear and posts them on YouTube, while the narrator sings under the stage name 'Boku'. Their story comes to us as a Wikipedia entry, edited and rewritten by who knows how many hands, and once a record deal arrives, the students' game is pulled into an information war about a conspiracy from history.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

152 pages in the original

Genres

Satire (assigned by AI)

Set in

Japan

First published

2018 by Shinchosha

Author's age

31 when first published

ISBN

9784103514626 (original)