Kagerou Daze

Kagerou Daze (カゲロウデイズ Kagerō Deizu) is a light novel series written by Jin (Shizen no Teki-P) and illustrated by Sidu and the sequel to the Manga Route. The series started May 30, 2012 and concluded in the eighth volume on December 29, 2017. The series, along with the manga, are licensed by Yen Press in North America. Kagerou Daze is currently the 18th best-selling light novel series of all time with 9 million copies sold, and in 2018 it was the 13th best-selling series.

Jin has said there will be another novel series in the afterword of the last novel, and suggested it would be released Summer 2018, but it currently hasn't been released. He said in an interview released on November 29, 2018 that he's still experimenting on writing it and wants the next phase of Kagerou Project to be a "future saga". On June 8, 2019, Jin announced the next phase of the series set 3 years after the main story titled Kagerou Daze No.9, and he also said he wants to do a novel version of Mekakucity Actors before going to the future.

List of Volumes

Kagerou Daze, Vol 1_ In a Daze

Kagerou Daze, Vol 2_ A Headphone Actor

Afterword

Kagerou Daze, Vol. 1_ In a Daze

AFTERWORD

“Too Terrible to Look At” Hello. JIN speaking. Did you enjoy Kagerou Daze 2: A Headphone Actor ? This novel was written in the middle of summer, with the temperature outside never going below the upper eighties—not unlike the story setting I was writing about. Of course, I had the AC set to seventy-three degrees and gorged myself on pizza throughout the project, but the point remains. I apologize for leeching off everyone at the office in the meantime. Which reminds me. In the afterword to my previous novel, Kagerou Daze: In a Daze , I wrote something along the lines of “If this winds up being a flop, I’ll have to write a school romance/comedy next!” Luckily, thanks to all of you, the response I received for that book exceeded all expectations. Thanks! *smile* As a result, the manifesto above is not the reason why this volume wound up being a bit school romance/comedy-...

RETROSPECT FOREST

August 15. The height of summer. The suburban road, well separated from the people and car noise you found in the city, was instead infected with the loud, echoing call of the nearby cicadas. The long, straight road was interrupted only by rusted-out signs and small houses, dotting the path for what seemed like the rest of the world. Next to the sidewalk, notably cracked and lacking in terms of solid pavement, the unkempt weeds extended toward the sky as high as they could. It was well into the afternoon by now. I felt like I had been walking down this path for hours, but I imagine it was only for twenty or thirty minutes in reality. When you’re faced with a never-ending onrush of catastrophic events, time always seems to pass a lot more slowly than it actually does. —It all started yesterday. I, Shintaro Kisaragi, have wound up getting shoved out i...

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