Tokyo: Healing the World, Starting with Literary Giants

In 1991, a departed soul transmigrates to Tokyo in the bubble era with only two things in mind:

First, survive.

Second, become the world's most revered literary giant!

Lin Liao transmigrated,

blown away by an artillery shell.

In this new life, he has neither a distinguished family background nor any special skills. All he has is a few thousand yen in his pocket and a bill for a 30-million-yen debt.

Luckily, there is always a way forward. This world has no Kawabata Yasunari, no Natsume Soseki, and no Akutagawa Ryunosuke, the renowned literary giants of his previous life!

So with Norwegian Wood, he wins the Bungeishunju Newcomer Award in one fell swoop, kicking open the doors to the literary world. His short satirical story The Election for Governor sparks a nationwide frenzy.

Snow Country, Rashomon, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, No Longer Human, Crime and Punishment...

From the Akutagawa Prize and Naoki Prize to the Kafka Prize, International Booker Prize, and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, he wins them all.

Some call him a writer with the greatest human compassion. Others call him a misfit who has thrown the literary world into disarray. Still others say he is a notorious playboy surrounded by scandals...

Years later, with a lifetime of works to his name, he stands on the Nobel Prize in Literature stage at the age of twenty-seven and smiles modestly.

"Am I now the greatest literary figure of the Heisei era?"

The audience answers:

"No! You're the greatest writer in the world!!!"