The City on the Other Shore I: Year One of the Black

2032, Kurosaki City, Christmas Eve.

It all begins here.

A girl who survived a snowy night, a disgraced detective, and a red-haired, red-eyed policewoman.

It looks like a detective story. It looks like more than a detective story.

Technology, money, the law, gangs, cybernetic limbs, old districts, crime...

Capital, the powerful, corruption, oppression, monsters, resistance, slaughter...

There is no battle between good and evil, no simple division between right and wrong.

This place is never short of madmen. It has never had any heroes.

Only the fallen, the Black Swallow thief, and the demon of the rainy night.

Only fantastical dreamscapes, the art of murder, and a chain of tangled schemes.

The elegant politician drinks alone in a high-rise, while the hungry poor die in dark alleys.

The arrogant bureaucrat wrongly condemns the innocent in court, while the vengeful nightmare wanders among the crowd.

The detective is coming apart. The policewoman is consumed by rage.

The nightingale weeps. The white dove laughs.

The Mobius strip never breaks for any one person. Tragedy and farce repeat themselves throughout history.

This is not one person's story.

This is the future of everyone.

(This is a remastered and enhanced version of the first novel in a series. It is a near-future cyberpunk urban crime story. The Year One is the first installment.

Dark realism, a slow-burn pace, not a power fantasy, a tragic romance, focused on dialogue and deduction with few action scenes, mostly realistic fighting, multiple protagonists and storylines, a script-like format, and many easter eggs from the Blade Runner series.)