This is a collection of stories translated by our team at Shining Novel Translations.
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When You Were Here…
Translation Status: [Short Story]
[Romance]
Saku and Kyoji live happily in a small village. However, Saku has begun to realize the ending. The ending is…….
Lost Memory
Translation Status: [Short Story]
[Romance]
When I woke up, I had lost my memory. In front of me was my girlfriend… Sad memories return. A heartrending love story.
Adventurer
Translation Status: [Up-to-Date] | Latest Update: Chapter 2
[Tragedy]
Four young people cooperate and travel in order to achieve their respective goals. What the four see at the end is…
Spearmint
Translation Status: [Up-to-Date] | Latest Update: Chapter 1
[Action]
A world where power rules everything and fighting never ceases. In a certain port town, a girl named Mana who works primarily as a bounty hunter ends up, by sheer happenstance and necessity, helping a girl named Lamia, who then asks Mana to escort her to the capital of a neighboring country. It was a request she took on simply because it happened that way, but this incident would go on to determine Mana’s fate…A world where power rules everything and fighting never ceases. In a certain port town, a girl named Mana who works primarily as a bounty hunter ends up, by sheer happenstance and necessity, helping a girl named Lamia, who then asks Mana to escort her to the capital of a neighboring country. It was a request she took on simply because it happened that way, but this incident would go on to determine Mana’s fate…
Limit
Translation Status: [Short Story]
[Psychological]
A story about a man left behind in a vast desert, driven to the very extreme of death, and finding something from there.
Falling in Love with Italy
Translation Status: [Up-to-Date] | Latest Update: Chapter 1
[Slice of Life]
An autobiographical novel incorporating the author’s study-abroad experiences.
Firefly Bewitching Grass ~Glow~
Translation Status: [Up-to-Date] | Latest Update: Chapter 2
[Fantasy]
Glow is a doctor who can compound medicines that cure all illnesses. Every day, many sick people come to him.
A Love Letter to God
Translation Status: [Up-to-Date] | Latest Update: Chapter 2
[Fantasy] [School Life]
A story where Mizuki asks God to fix the ways her mom is different from other people.
Forever
Translation Status: [Complete] | Latest Update: Chapter 3
[Slice of Life]
The protagonist, who works as a salaried employee, grows sick of his boring daily routine. Then one day, a mysterious boy he meets in a park gives him a chance to remember the dreams and life he had forgotten.
Visible Things, Invisible Things
Translation Status: [Complete] | Latest Update: Chapter 7
[Romance]
Atsushi, who attends a local high school, has been able to see non-human things—spirits—ever since a traffic accident a year ago. On his way home from school, he stops by a park on a whim and, by chance, encounters the spirit of a girl who committed suicide.
Early Summer Breeze
Translation Status: [Short Story]
[Romance]
Saku and Kyoji live happily in a small village. However, Saku has begun to realize the ending. The ending is…….
A Wish That Comes True
Translation Status: [Up-to-Date] | Latest Update: Chapter 2
[Romance]
The main character, Aika, was spending every day in boredom. Then, on Aika’s cell phone, an unfamiliar number and name had been registered without her permission, and a call came in from it…. That became the trigger for Aika to have a mysterious experience….
Beyond the Dream
Translation Status: [Short Story]
[Slice of Life]
Hiromu is a freeter with no dreams or anything. He was bored with his everyday life. However, after Hiromu has a certain dream…
The Reason He Doesn’t Smile
Translation Status: [Up-to-Date] | Latest Update: Chapter 1
[Tragedy]
At present, Kei Megumi (male), age twenty-eight, has never smiled. The reason lies twelve years in the past; it all began when he lost someone precious to him.
The Excuses of Inanimate Objects
Translation Status: [Up-to-Date] | Latest Update: Chapter 1
[Supernatural]
Grumblings of the things casually used in everyday life.
Ark that Races Through the Heavens ~Angel of Steel~
Translation Status: [Up-to-Date] | Latest Update: Chapter 2
[Mecha] [Romance] [Sci-Fi] [Supernatural]
A world where every civilization has fallen into ruin and nature has rotted away, there existed “Shangri-La,” the proud home of the only remaining advanced civilization and lush, overflowing nature. Thirty years ago, the invisible gate “Jigokumon” suddenly opened and became the cause of the world’s ruin, and through it came the mysterious enemies called “Ogre” from the realm of “Jigoku,” a domain that operates by laws different from this world. Before the Ogres that are polluting this world, Shangri-La’s mobile weapon “Ark,” created by gathering together the very pinnacle of humanity’s magic and science, takes its other half, the prodigy Shindou Katsuma, aboard and soars into the twilight sky…!
Summertime Blues
Translation Status: [Up-to-Date] | Latest Update: Chapter 2
[Mystery]
After abruptly quitting my job, the place I ended up changing careers to was a shady law office located in a room of a run-down multi-tenant building. Under the strange duo made up of a 19-year-old prodigy who is as beautiful and expressionless as a doll, and the incompetent rookie lawyer who is the head of the office and obeys her every command, I start working as a clerk. Before long, it is that mysterious woman with her extraordinary intellect who brilliantly unravels the full story of a gruesome incident that occurred close to me――――.
The Room He Was In
Translation Status: [Up-to-Date] | Latest Update: Chapter 1
[Romance]
Akiko, the (supposed?) protagonist, is suddenly hit with a breakup talk. The room is full of memories of him… She can’t forget about him, yet one serious thing after another keeps happening around her…
Fragments of a Dream
Translation Status: [Up-to-Date] | Latest Update: Chapter 2
[Fantasy] [Slice of Life]
There are two Earths. On the other Earth, the world called Another Earth, humanity is on the verge of extinction, and the world itself is about to disappear. Because of the distortion of the world caused by the disappearance of Another Earth, for a brief time, voices from Another Earth can be heard…
The Whereabouts of Goodbye
Translation Status: [Short Story]
[Drama] [Romance]
We’re always, always fighting. The same old fights as always. A day-to-day life that never moves forward at all.
Evolution Theory
Translation Status: [Short Story]
[School Life]
Students speak! Talking about evolution! (lighthearted story)
Masuda Family Memoirs
Translation Status: [Up-to-Date] | Latest Update: Chapter 5
[Drama] [Slice of Life]
A narrated piece. The story of a family that runs a soba shop. For details, please see the main text.
Oni
Translation Status: [Short Story]
[Fantasy]
Long, long ago, in a certain place, there lived an old man and an old woman……