Fukujinchou Kidan

In 1914, the Taisho Exposition was held in Tokyo. One day, the townscape within a radius of two kilometres, including the exposition grounds, was swept away by a typhoon into another dimension. Eighty-five years later, its inhabitants lived in this isolated, otherworldly town. Named Fukujin-chō, it had developed uniquely. Mysterious phenomena occurred here: people arriving from the outside world, known as “visitors”; a daily “reset” where memories vanished at the same hour. Shadowy craftsmen—memory dealers, recollection merchants, dream weavers—operated in the shadows. And today, yet another man from the outside world found himself lost within...