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books
- out by kirino natsuo translated by stephen snyder
- the phantom of the opera by gaston leroux
- the song of achilles by madeline miller
- circe by madeline miller
- the murder of roger ackroyd by agatha christie
- carry on by rainbow rowell
- coraline by neil gaiman
- the book thief by markus zusak
- anthem by ayn rand
- arsène lupin, gentleman thief by maurice leblanc
- after dark by murakami haruki translated by jay rubin
- the truth about keeping secrets by savannah brown
- murder on the orient express by agatha christie
- aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe by benjamin alire sáenz
- a study in scarlet by arthur conan doyle
- arsène lupin vs herlock sholmes by maurice leblanc
- piranesi by susanna clarke
- alice's adventures in wonderland by lewis carroll
- the jasmine throne by tasha suri
- journey under the midnight sun by higashino keigo
- kokoro by natsume sōseki translated by edwin mcclellan
- nausea by jean-paul sartre
- good omens by neil gaiman and terry pratchett
- the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde
- the setting sun by dazai osamu translated by donald keene
- no longer human by dazai osamu translated by donald keene
- the remains of the day by ishiguro kazuo
- notes from underground by fyodor dostoevsky translated by richard pevear & larissa volokhonsky
- if we were villains by m. l. rio
- notes from a dead house by fyodor dostoevsky translated by richard pevear & larissa volokhonsky
- their eyes were watching god by zora neale hurston
- crime and punishment by fyodor dostoevsky translated by richard pevear & larissa volokhonsky
- the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald
- on earth we're briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong
- gideon the ninth by tamsyn muir
- the name of the rose by umberto eco translated by william weaver
- heaven by kawakami mieko translated by sam bett & david boyd
- white on white by ayşegül savaş
- when we cease to understand the world by benjamín labatut translated by adrian nathan west
- the hour of the star by clarice lispector translated by benjamin moser
- written on the body by jeanette winterson
- the bell jar by sylvia plath
- wuthering heights by emily brontë
- last words from montmartre by qiu miaojin translated by ari larissa heinrich
- cold enough for snow by jessica au
- annihilation by jeff vandermeer
- notes of a crocodile by qiu miaojin translated by bonnie huie
- otogizoshi: the fairy tale book of dazai osamu translated by ralph f. mccarthy
- tell the wolves i'm home by carol rifka brunt
- the watchmaker of filigree street by natasha pulley
- the four profound weaves by r.b. lemberg
- go by kaneshiro kazuki translated by nieda takami
- in the lives of puppets by tj klune
- kitchen by yoshimoto banana translated by megan backus
- schoolgirl by dazai osamu translated by allison markin powell
- territory of light by tsushima yuuko translated by geraldine harcourt
- snow country by kawabata yasunari translated by edward g. seidensticker
- return to tsugaru: travels of a purple tramp by dazai osamu translated by james westerhoven
- a woman of pleasure by murata kiyoko translated by juliet winters carpenter
- steppenwolf by basil creighton, translated by basil creighton (updated by joseph mileck + horst frenz)
- plainsong by hosaka kazushi translated by paul warham
- sputnik sweetheart by murakami haruki translated by philip gabriel
- mulberry and peach by nieh hualing translated by jane parish yang with linda lappin
- secret rendezvous by abe kobo translated by juliet winters carpenter
- hear the wind sing by murakami haruki translated by ted goossen
- pinball, 1973 by murakami haruki translated by ted goossen
- the passion by jeanette winterson
- the decagon house murders by ayatsuji yukito translated by ho-ling wong
- the honjin murders by yokomizo seishi translated by louise heal kawai
- the inugami curse by yokomizo seishi translated by yumiko yamazaki
- death on gokumon island by yokomizo seishi translated by louise heal kawai
- the village of eight graves by yokomizo seishi translated by bryan karetnyk
- the devil's flute murders by yokomizo seishi translated by jim rion
- vertigo by w.g. sebald translated by michael hulse
- wild geese by mori ougai translated by kingo ochiai and sanford goldstein
- a tale for the time being by ruth ozeki
- fires on the plain by ooka shohei translated by ivan morris
- grass for my pillow by maruya saiichi translated by dennis keene
- beauty and sadness by kawabata yasunari translated by howard hibbett
- black rain by ibuse masuji translated by john bester
- life for sale by mishima yukio translated by stephen dodd
- naomi by tanizaki jun'ichirou translated by anthony h. chambers
- the rings of saturn by w.g. sebald translated by michael hulse
- the last samurai by helen dewitt
book series
- feverwake series by victoria lee
- warriors series by erin hunter
- divergent series by veronica roth
- harry potter series by j.k. rowling
- no.6 series by asano atsuko translated by nostalgia on 9th avenue
- percy jackson & the olympians series by rick riordan
- the farseer trilogy by robin hobb
- liveship traders by robin hobb
nonfiction
- destiny disrupted: a history of the world through islamic eyes by tamim ansary
- the narrow road to the deep north and other travel sketches by matsuo bashō
- essays in idleness and hojoki by yoshida kenkō & kamo no chōmei translated by meredith mckinney
- journal of a solitude by may sarton
- seven brief lessons on physics by carlo rovelli translated by simon carnell & erica segre
- letters to a young poet by rainer maria rilke translated by charlie louth
- injurious to public morals: writers and the meiji state by jay rubin
short story collections/anthologies
- the moon over the mountain: stories by nakajima atsushi translated by paul mccarthy & nobuko ochner
- the early cases of akechi kogorō by edogawa ranpo translated by william varteresian
- japanese tales of mystery and imagination by edogawa ranpo translated by james b. harris
- the underground village by kang kyeong-ae translated by anton hur
- the selected prose of fernando pessoa by fernando pessoa
- rashoumon and seventeen other stories by akutagawa ryuunosuke translated by jay rubin
- blue bamboo: tales by dazai osamu translated by ralph f. mccarthy
- the beautiful and the grotesque by akutagawa ryuunosuke translated by kojima takashi & john mcvittie
- early light by dazai osamu translated by donald keene & ralph f. mccarthy
- self-portraits by dazai osamu translated by ralph f. mccarthy
- a country doctor's notebook by mikhail bulgakov translated by michael glenny
- in the shade of spring leaves: the life of higuchi ichiyō, with nine of her best stories by robert lyons danly
- stories of osaka life by oda sakunosuke translated by burton watson
- crackling mountain and other stories by dazai osamu translated by james o'brien
- the funeral of a giraffe: seven stories by tomioka taeko translated by kyoko selden & mizuta noriko
- japanese gothic tales by izumi kyouka translated by charles shirō inouye
- wang in love and bondage: three novellas by wang xiaobo translated by hongling zhang & jason sommer
- soul and other stories by andrey platonov translated by robert & elizabeth chandler
- no one knows: short stories by dazai osamu translated by ralph f. mccarthy
- the real osamu dazai: a life in twenty stories translated by james o'brien
- stained glass elegies: stories by endo shuusaku, translated by van c. gessel
- not a song like any other: an anthology of writings by mori ougai
- of dogs and walls by tsushima yuuko translated by geraldine harcourt
- toddler-hunting and other stories by kono taeko translated by lucy north
novellas
- the story of your life by ted chiang
- flowers of buffoonery by dazai osamu translated by sam bett
- the beggar student by dazai osamu translated by sam bett
- vita sexualis by mori ougai translated by kazuji nonomiya & sanford goldstein
short stories
- the lottery by shirley jackson
- the fall of the house of usher by edgar allan poe
- the monkey's paw by w.w. jacobs
- the tell-tale heart by edgar allan poe
- the velveteen rabbit by margery williams
- autumn ensemble by higuchi ichiyo
- the masque of the red death by edgar allan poe
- the fall of the house of usher by edgar allan poe
- interpreter of maladies by jhumpa lahiri
- miss brill by katherine mansfield
- a worn path by eudora welty
- the jilting of granny weatherall by katherine anne porter
- hills like white elephants by ernest hemingway
- spunk by zora neale hurston
- to build a fire by jack london
- the werewolf by angela carter
- narcissus by dazai osamu translated by ralph mccarthy
- under the cherry blossoms in full bloom by sakaguchi ango translated by shimura masao
poetry
- cat town by hagiwara sakutarou translated by hiroaki sato
- river of stars: selected poems by yosano akiko translated by sam hamill & keiko matsui gibson
- the poems of nakahara chūya translated by paul mackintosh + maki sugiyama
- a little smaller than the entire universe: selected poems by fernando pessoa translated by richard zenith
- on love and barley: haiku of bashō translated by lucien stryk
- twenty love poems and a song of despair by pablo neruda translated by w. s. merwin
- calling a wolf a wolf by kaveh akbar
- the world keeps ending, and the world goes on by franny choi
- agitated air: poems after ibn arabi by yasmine seale & robin moger
- love sonnets and elegies by louise labé translated by richard sieburth
- see you soon: poems of taeko tomioka translated by hiroaki sato
- a kiss for the absolute: selected poems by takiguchi shuzo translated by yuki tanaka and mary jo bang
plays
- oedipus the king by sophocles
- antigone by sophocles
- ghosts by henrik ibsen
- the cherry orchard by anton chekhov
- six characters in search of an author by luigi pirandello
webnovels
- omniscient reader's viewpoint by sing shong
- heaven official's blessing by mo xiang tong xiu
- grandmaster of demonic cultivation by mo xiang tong xiu
light novels
- dazai, chuuya, age fifteen by asagiri kafka & harukawa 35
- dazai osamu's entrance exam by asagiri kafka & harukawa 35
- storm bringer by asagiri kafka & harukawa 35
- the day i picked up dazai by asagiri kafka & harukawa 35
- beast by asagiri kafka & harukawa 35
manga, graphic novels
- vanitas no carte by mochizuki jun
- mob psycho 100 by ONE
- ao no flag by KAITO
- the girl from the other side: siúil, a rún by NAGABE
- on a sunbeam by tillie walden
- fullmetal alchemist by arakawa hiromu
- the legend of zelda: ocarina of time by himekawa akira
academic articles
- the continuum of male beauty in japan by masafumi monden
- "what is the antonym of sin?": a study of dazai osamu's confrontation with god by massimiliano tomasi
- ballet in japan: reconsidering the westernisation of japanese ballet by sayako ono
- akutagawa ryūnosuke and i-novelists by kinya tsuruta
- dying to tell: sexuality and suicide in imperial japan by jennifer robertson
- performing gender along the lesbian continuum: the politics of sexual identity in the seitō society by peichen wu
- culture, nationalism, and sakaguchi ango by james dorsey
- the barren years: japanese war literature by donald keene
- from wholesomeness to decadence: the censorship of literature under the allied occupation by jay rubin
- methamphetamine solution: drugs and the reconstruction of nation in postwar japan by miriam kingsberg
- universities and students in wartime japan by ben-ami shillony
- a japanese writer in micronesia: nakajima atsushi's experiences of 1941-42 by nobuko miyama ochner
last updated: 2026年7月29日
movies, short films
- a silent voice (2016)
- princess mononoke (1997)
- promare (2019)
- wish upon (2017)
- when marnie was there (2014)
- evangelion: 2.0 you can (not) advance (2009)
- wolf children (2012)
- the secret world of arrietty (2010)
- howl's moving castle (2004)
- my neighbour totoro (1988)
- liz and the blue bird (2018)
- grave of the fireflies (1988)
- kiki's delivery service (1989)
- the garden of words (2013)
- persona 3 no.1-4 (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016)
- doubutsu no mori (2006)
- perfect blue (1997)
- angel's egg (1985)
- tsumiki no ie (2008)
- spirited away (2001)
- from up on poppy hill (2011)
- ponyo (2008)
- ocean waves (1993)
- amélie (2001)
- gonjiam: haunted asylum (2018)
- noroi: the curse (2005)
- neko to jiichan (2019)
- the novelist's film (2022)
- the babushkas of chernobyl (2015)
- kusama: infinity (2018)
- kenji no haru (1996)
- stray dog (1949)
- kamome diner (2006)
- x-men: first class (2011)
- moonlight (2016)
- after life (1999)
- bungou stray dogs: dead apple (2018)
- sobakasu (2022)
- spiderweb castle (1957)
- his (2020)
- tokyo godfathers (2003)
- love letter (1995)
- drunken angel (1948)
- godzilla (1954)
- pacific rim (2013)
- jason and the argonauts (1963)
- frankenstein (2025)
- american psycho (2000)
- knives out (2019)
- glass onion (2022)
- wake up dead man (2025)
anime
- fairy tail (s1-s8(?))
- assassination classroom
- magi: the labyrinth of magic
- kyoukai no kanata
- attack on titan (s1-s2)
- kiznaiver
- haikyuu!! (s1-s3)
- seven deadly sins (s1-s2)
- rwby (s1-s3)
- boku no hero academia (s1-s2)
- noragami
- violet evergarden
- nisekoi
- danganronpa (s1)
- love live sunshine
- tokyo ghoul (s1-s2)
- little witch academia
- hibike! euphonium
- tower of god (s1)
- neon genesis evangelion
- a place further than the universe
- yuri!!! on ice
- yoru no kuni
- akatsuki no yona
- owari no seraph
- kimetsu no yaiba (s1)
- the promised neverland (s1)
- mahou shoujo madoka magica
- pokémon xy
- pokémon: indigo league
- cowboy bebop
- bungou stray dogs
- 文豪ストレイドッグス わん！
- apothecary diaries
plays, ballets, operas
- stormbringer stageplay
- swan lake
- sleeping beauty
- die entführung aus dem serail
last updated: 2026年3月12日
○ watched, not played myself
- ensemble stars music
- love live: school idol festival
- animal crossing: new leaf
- animal crossing: new horizons
- pokémon x/y
- pokémon sun/moon
- pokémon sword
- pokémon blue
- pokémon alpha sapphire
- pokémon masters ex
- splatoon
- splatoon 2
- splatoon 3
- legend of zelda: breath of the wild
- stardew valley
- danganronpa v2
- ○ danganronpa v3
- phoenix wright: ace attorney trilogy
- ○ persona 5 royal
- persona q2: new cinema labyrinth
- fire emblem: three houses
- twisted wonderland
- project sekai
- omori
- undertale
- deltarune
- super mario galaxy 1+2
- super mario sunshine
- super mario 64
- super mario 3d world
- minecraft
- terraria
- ○ your turn to die
- butterfly soup
- fe
- the house in fata morgana
- ○ the world ends with you
- neo: the world ends with you
- mahoutsukai no yakusoku
- mystic messenger
- pokémon legends アルセウス
- ○ sonic adventure 2
- ○ paper mario
- luigi's mansion
- the murder of sonic the hedgehog
- pokémon mystery dungeon: explorers of sky
- legend of zelda: tears of the kingdom
- ○ legend of zelda: ocarina of time
- ○ sonic forces
- ○ pokémon violet
- ○ pokémon insurgence
- legend of zelda: the wind waker
- flesh, blood, & concrete
- fields of mistria
- ○ chrono trigger
- final fantasy vii
- ○ persona 2: innocent sin
- ○ pokémon legends: z-a
- nier:automata
- トモダチコレクション わくわく生活
- nier replicant
last updated: 2026年6月30日