tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031063966272508587.post7819349531154855832..comments2024-03-27T06:07:20.345+01:00Comments on ボクの事件簿: Double, DoubleHo-Linghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04673330638260132388noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031063966272508587.post-1613455036811137612018-06-01T19:47:16.427+02:002018-06-01T19:47:16.427+02:00Ooh, that sounds fun! Never been to a live mystery...Ooh, that sounds fun! Never been to a live mystery play myself before, only watched recordings of them.Ho-Linghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04673330638260132388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031063966272508587.post-72046717881151270002018-06-01T16:14:27.220+02:002018-06-01T16:14:27.220+02:00This actually reminds me of a mystery play my frie...This actually reminds me of a mystery play my friend watched, with what I thought was innovative stagecraft. The entire stage was a 360-degree circle made up of two semi-circles. And so the audience was split into two halves, with one halve per semi-circle. The events that make up the play are performed on the stage twice - as the audience sees only part of the story depending on which semi-circle they belong to. The solution only becomes clear when the audience switches semi-circles. Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03389512470283015279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031063966272508587.post-49630414736393400692018-05-31T12:43:17.820+02:002018-05-31T12:43:17.820+02:00Wait, they used to glue them? That seems a much mo...Wait, they used to glue them? That seems a much more troublesome process compared to just leaving pages uncut.<br /><br />The Akunin book doesn't seem to be available in English translation sadly enough :/ I just checked to see whether there are more Japanese mystery novels with double-oriented narratives, and Orihara's Tousaku no Kiketsu (2000) had that too, though different from Ashibe's book: Ashibe's book uses different writing conventions in his two narratives, so if you start from the left side, you'll also read horizontal left to right, and when starting from the right, you'll read vertically right to left. The Orihara novel on the other hand has you flip the whole book over if you want to start from the other side (as one side is printed upside down). Ho-Linghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04673330638260132388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031063966272508587.post-74317133012957438282018-05-31T12:13:12.526+02:002018-05-31T12:13:12.526+02:00All early John Dickson Carr's books use the se...All early John Dickson Carr's books use the sealed pages device. There was even a short-lived attempt at reprint editions with the glued pages.<br /><br />Incidentally, the concept of a turn-the-book double-narrative detective story is remarkably similar to Boris Akunin's _Quest_ (2008). It features (as Akunin frequently does) two narratives united by locations but separate in times, but, unlike the more normal way of alternating them or putting one into even chapters, it prints them at both sides of the book, daring to choose your own way in how to deal with them. Of course, neither story is really complete without the other one (and there are also false endings and two different conclusions depending on the choice).JPRidgewayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03239204379942649749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031063966272508587.post-6933257500249907682018-05-31T08:48:35.691+02:002018-05-31T08:48:35.691+02:00I wouldn't call them common in contemporary Ja...I wouldn't call them common in contemporary Japanese publications, but I've seen them often enough now not to be surprised by them anymore. Ho-Linghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04673330638260132388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031063966272508587.post-87025707885941604402018-05-31T05:41:52.529+02:002018-05-31T05:41:52.529+02:00The idea of sealed pages is not new but has been u...The idea of sealed pages is not new but has been used infrequently in the West. I have a few Golden Age books where the publisher sealed the solution pages.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031063966272508587.post-31485084560766785072018-05-30T13:37:06.508+02:002018-05-30T13:37:06.508+02:00Yeah. I'm not 100% sure that they'll be cl...Yeah. I'm not 100% sure that they'll be clear folders though: the Amazon entry only mentions the special edition'll have three bonus goodies, but I think I read elsewhere those bonuses would be clear folders. <br /><br />I haven't seen many special editions for the Kindaichi Shounen manga myself: I have the two 20th Anniversary volumes that came with the two-part OVA adaptation with the Black Magic Murder Case, but that's about it. Conan too has had a few the last couple of years with DVDs of specials like the Conan Disappearance Case and Episode "ONE".Ho-Linghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04673330638260132388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031063966272508587.post-78675231186116886472018-05-30T13:15:15.185+02:002018-05-30T13:15:15.185+02:00Hopefully there will be a collectors’ edition for ...Hopefully there will be a collectors’ edition for the Chinese translation. But while they exist in theory for previous volumes, I’ve never come across one. Clear files - as in folders for documents? Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03389512470283015279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031063966272508587.post-60375679362647047552018-05-30T13:10:14.164+02:002018-05-30T13:10:14.164+02:00Yeah, there's an English translation of that b...Yeah, there's an English translation of that book, but I still haven't read any version of it, though I do have a Japanese copy somewhere. <br /><br />I never thought about library books in regards to sealed pages actually! Would cutting the pages open count as damaging the books? :P<br /><br />Looking forward to the first volume of 37 too! I think there's also a limited edition of the first volume, with some clear files, so I might go for that versoin, and the second volume of the Kid Kindaichi children's novels series should also release on the same day.Ho-Linghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04673330638260132388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031063966272508587.post-24925656813827782062018-05-30T12:33:37.127+02:002018-05-30T12:33:37.127+02:00'Double Mystery' sounds interesting, with ...'Double Mystery' sounds interesting, with two interpolating tales and a (literally) sealed solution! <br /><br />My local library only stocks a Chinese translation of 'Murder in the Dream of the Red Mansion' - which, I believe, might also have been translated into English? Hopefully there will be a translation of 'Double Mystery' appearing in my local library, though only the first person who borrows it gets the fun of opening up the sealed pages. <br /><br />P.S. I'm excited that the first volume of Kindachi 37 will be appearing soon! Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03389512470283015279noreply@blogger.com