HOW MUCH IS LIFE TRULY WORTH? Kusunoki used to believe he was destined for great things. Ostracized as a child, he held on to a belief that a good life was waiting for him in the years ahead. Now approaching the age of twenty, he's a completely mediocre college student with no motivation, no dreams, and no money. After learning he can sell his remaining years-and just how little they're worth-he chooses to divest himself of all but his last three months. Has Kusunoki truly destroyed his last chance to find happiness...or has he somehow found it? (Source: Yen Press)

Kusunoki used to believe he was destined for great things. But now, approaching the age of twenty, he’s a completely mediocre college student with no motivation, no dreams, and no money. After learning he can sell his remaining years, he chooses to divest himself of all but his last three months. Spending this remaining time with his monitor, Miyagi, has Kusunoki truly destroyed his final chance to find happiness…or has he somehow found it? (Source: Yen Press) *Note: Includes two extra chapters.*

A person who has the power to control people's bodies uses it to make them commit suicide, and one day encounters a special target.

The story is about a man whose compulsive tendencies make it impossible for him to keep a job and a young girl who skips school and loves insects. The two meet, come to support each other in reintegrating into society and fall in love. There’s a problem, however: namely, the parasites in their heads.

The story is about a man whose compulsive tendencies make it impossible for him to keep a job, and a young girl who skips school and loves insects. The two meet, come to support each other in reintegrating into society, and fall in love. There’s a problem, however: namely, the parasites in their heads.

The plot involves a young man who becomes a killer (by accident) – but his victim has the power of “postponement,” temporarily delaying her death.

On his twentieth birthday, a man is sent back in time to when he was the age of ten. Intending to repeat the same choices and actions he had made in the past, he discovers that things don't always play out according to expectations.

The Place You Called From & The Place I Called From are novels by Sugaru Miaki, also known as Fafoo, writer of Starting Over, Three Days of Happiness, and Pain, Pain, Go Away. The story is about a boy entering high school, who answers a strange call from a public phone one night. The caller challenges him to a bet: She’ll remove the birthmark which he sees as the cause of so many problems, and he’ll have fifty days to win the heart of a girl he’d considered far beyond his reach. And with this, a very strange summer begins.

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The Place You Called From & The Place I Called From are novels by Sugaru Miaki, also known as Fafoo, writer of Starting Over, Three Days of Happiness, and Pain, Pain, Go Away. The story is about a boy entering high school, who answers a strange call from a public phone one night. The caller challenges him to a bet: She’ll remove the birthmark which he sees as the cause of so many problems, and he’ll have fifty days to win the heart of a girl he’d considered far beyond his reach. And with this, a very strange summer begins. Volume 1: The Place You Called From Volume 2: The Place I Called From

A person who has the power to control people’s bodies uses it to make them commit suicide, and one day encounters a special target. Note: The original version was written in 2012, and the author rewrote the story in 2016, however, the premise remains the same.