[Anime Crossover] The Literary Superstar's Pillow-Book Manual

Ryugu Mari's older brother ran away with a woman named Ozaki Kouyou, who came from a yakuza family.

Unfortunately, their elopement failed, and they were caught and brought back. His brother was about to be subjected to an extrajudicial beheading.

When Ryugu Mari heard the news from a small local gang he had hired to look after his older brother, who was studying at university in Yokohama, he was just as shocked as he had been two years ago, when his older sister dropped out of high school to marry the boss of the Tokyo Nura clan.

But unlike two years ago, this time a life was at stake. If he didn't go rescue his brother, Ryugu Mari's older brother would definitely end up like Mami Tomoe, with his head separated from his body.

So Ryugu Mari took the two billion yen he'd earned writing novels, brought along his brother-in-law, a Tokyo native with the power of Face Fruit, found an intermediary, and headed to Yokohama to negotiate with the boss of the Port Mafia and get the couple out.

He dangled the prospect of ten billion yen and rescued the two lovebirds. Then, for the sake of that ten billion yen, Ryugu Mari decided to cast aside his morals and become a plagiarist, taking his brother's lover into the entertainment industry to rake in a hundred billion yen.

He founded a talent agency and discovered stars with supernatural abilities: Ozaki Kouyou, the Publicist, Nakahara Chuuya, Oda Sakunosuke, Dazai Osamu, Edogawa Ranpo...

Just as his entertainment business in Yokohama was booming, a wild Elephant-Assassin King charged into the city...

(No content warnings, because my tastes are weird. I'm also bad at writing blurbs, so it might not match the story. I like making up background details, and the story includes Glass Mask and Skip Beat!

Actually, this story came about because I didn't understand the social environment in Bungo Stray Dogs. Though the background setting established by the original author is pretty rough, art comes from life, and people can't describe things they've never seen. So the author's depictions of society should still be based on modern Japan. I went looking for books on social sciences, and then I came to terms with the social environment in Bungo Stray Dogs. Real Japan is even more absurd, after all. But I had so much to rant about that I wrote this story.

If you're also confused about the official powers represented by the Special Division for Unusual Powers, try reading The Mystery of Japan's Power Structure. It's fairly straightforward and comprehensive. For information on yakuza crime, you can read Tokyo Vice, Inside Money Laundering: Who Controls Japan's Underground Finance, and Mysterious and Elusive: Secret Files on the World's Secret Societies. Trust me, after reading The Mystery of Japan's Power Structure, you'll be able to make peace with the ridiculous governments in Japanese manga. This is a ranting story, so I'll quote information from those books and others. They're all available on Weixin Reading. Reality is much more absurd than fiction. When I saw in a textbook that the law was bestowed by the emperor, I was completely stunned. So I started writing this story to rant about it.)

Theme: A reading drought isn't scary. Take matters into your own hands and you'll have plenty to eat.