Combine that with Nisioisin’s distinct writing style and you’re in for a fun ride.ĭel Rey translated this and volume 2 before they went under, but unfortunately this volume is long out of print and sold out everywhere. In fact, the series is essentially a character study on Ii-chan – take someone with his purely apathetic personality, throw him into an abnormal situation with outlandish characters, and see what happens. He’s all too familiar with murderers and geniuses and strange people and would rather just not be bothered. Our Ii-chan just can’t give less of a damn. Our unnamed narrator (commonly referred to by fans as Ii-chan) is unwillingly thrown into a new absurd situation every volume, usually involving some sort of murder or conspiracy or scheming and whatnot, but in the end it always boils down to nonsense. It’s widely regarded as Nisio’s best work, his crowning achievement, to this day. A mere nine months later the series had five books out, although the final ninth volume wasn’t released until 2005. Kubikiri Cycle is Nisioisin’s debut work, published in 2002 at the age of 20. It’s been years since I read the first volume of Zaregoto and I barely remember anything about it now, so let’s use this space as a general introduction to the series. Kubikiri Cycle (The Beheading Cycle: The Blue Savant and the Nonsense Bearer / クビキリサイクル 青色サヴァンと戯言遣い)
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