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Kagerou Daze, Vol. 1_ In a Daze






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KAGEROU DAZE, Volume 1
JIN (Shizen no Teki-P)

Translation by Kevin Gifford
Cover art by SIDU

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

Kagerou Daze -in a daze© 2012–2014 KAGEROU PROJECT/ 1st PLACE

Edited by BOOKWALKER Co., Ltd.

First published in Japan in 2012 by KADOKAWA CORPORATION ENTERBRAIN.

English translation rights arranged with KADOKAWA CORPORATION, Tokyo. through TUTTLEMORI AGENCY, INC., Tokyo.

English translation © 2015 by Yen Press, LLC.

All rights reserved. In accordance with the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, the scanning, uploading, and electronic sharing of any part of this book without the permission of the publisher is unlawful piracy
and theft of the author’s intellectual property. If you would like to use material from the book (other than for review purposes), prior written permission must be obtained by contacting the publisher. Thank you for your support of the author’s rights.

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First Yen On eBook Edition: May 2015
ISBN: 978-0-316-38468-1
E3-20170111-JV-PC 

TABLE OF CONTENTS


  • Cover
  • Insert
  • Title Page
  • Copyright 

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