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Jason Fourthroom - Love to Ashes, and Ashes to Ashes.

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Review by Kakuzō Akutagawa. “I May Be A Bizarre Girl For You To Be Here With.” Penned during the days of olden, 1996, and forgotten in a notebook left to rot away by the sands of time, 26 years later, 2022, we are miraculously presented with the first poem collection by the multitalented literary menace known as Maijo Otaro. Enter Jason Fourthroom. A collection of poems written before Maijo’s professional debut as an author. Created five years before taking the mystery world by storm with the first entry of the family saga swirling with the myth of blood and violence, Smoke, Soil Or Sacrifices , which won him the prestigious Mephisto Prize and kick-started the heart of his career, we are now given a small look at that which came before. Jason Fourthroom is a love story told through poetry, which in the same way as human life, is presented through poems of love, of grief, daily life, darkness, violence, happiness, but above everything, youth. “I predict that this will be a typical...

19 Box (Jukebox): New Mystery Genesis - My Sanity Ends With You.

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    “You are free to skim, ignore the details, and spout out your own opinions. You are also free to read as deeply as possible and find more meaning in the work than the author thinks there is. If there is a work, there is a person with their own way of reading it. If there is a work, there is no need for an author.” My thoughts after reading “19 Box (Jukebox): New Mystery Genesis” Written by Seiryouin Ryuusui. Instructions for reading this review: You, the reader, have been given the freedom to read this review in a variety of ways, one is a review about reality, another of delusion, each one has its own merits, so read one of them, both, or all of it if you feel like it, who knows, maybe a third review (story) will appear before you, the choice is yours. The sections about reality start with  ****** The sections about delusion start with ¥¥¥¥¥¥ Enjoy this review!  And so, with a world made out of smoke and darkness rising on the horizon,  yours truly, -Hayas...