Spark

This novel is also known as 100 Ways to Kick a Lunchbox

The pairing is Akutagawa with everyone, though you can also read it as having no pairing. The final pairing is not set in stone.

What if Akutagawa Ryunosuke had been taught by someone other than Dazai Osamu?

What if Akutagawa Ryunosuke had grown up in China?

What would Yokohama look like then?

After the White Whale incident, a Chinatown opened in Yokohama. It was run by a pair of siblings, and most of its employees were unfamiliar faces from another country. Rumor had it that the street had connections to both the underworld and the authorities, with business spanning the globe.

As ideas deliberately suppressed by the Western capitalist world entered Yokohama, cultural exchange gave rise to countless absurd and hilarious farces.

Theme: A spark lives on, and hope never dies