Kouhei Kadono (上遠野 浩平, Kadono Kōhei, born December 12, 1968) is a Japanese author, best known for the
Boogiepop series which has received multiple
manga adaptations, a live action film, and two television
anime.
Biography
Born on December 12, 1968, Kadono graduated from
Hosei University.
The Eccentric Dead in White Sickroom (しずるさんと偏屈な死者たち, Shizurusan to Henkutsuna Shishatachi) is the first novel in the Shizurusan series written by Kadono and illustrated by Kaya Kuramoto. It tells four stories of two girls and one short story about a fictional character created by the girls.
All of Kadono's works are linked together to a greater or lesser degree. The Shizuru-san series is particularly connected with
Boogiepop Unblance: Holy & Ghost.
Plot summary
""There is no mysterious mystery but "deception" there – .""
The beauty girl who lives a life bedridden in a hospital challenges mysterious incidents which spread over the world by the cool pupil and sharp insight with a partner.
Characters
"Yō-chan" (よーちゃん, Yō-chan) (Real-name is unknown.)
A familiar face of the hospital in which Shizuru-san is, and her best friend. She comes for Shizuru frequently to see and talk to because she herself is pleasant.
Shizuru-san (しずるさん, Shizuru-san)
A beauty attached and interested severely in cruel incidents which Yo wants to avert her eyes and the intricately complicated mystery. The incidents in which she got interested are solved one after another only by her reading data, without her moving from the hospital. The incident she indicates interest is unsolvable by any means, if it is thought using ordinary common sense. During guessing she is indifferent to Yo's feeling, although she is usually so gentle that she wants Yo not to have a decadent idea. She always remains calm. She never utters loud voice and does not talk rapidly.
Chikuta (チクタ)
Sewing-basis which Yo was loving once. Yo and Shizuru make him into a hero and collaborate with each other in telling one story.