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Kirara’s Paper Plane [2017] – ★★★1/2 In this fantastical story, boy Kenta is a ghost who still cannot wrap his head around as to why he keeps reappear
Kirara’s Paper Plane [2017] – ★★★1/2 In this fantastical story, boy Kenta is a ghost who still cannot wrap his head around as to why he keeps reappearing in this world when he is supposed to be dead (he was hit by a car near Ueno station and died). To his surprise, he discovers that there is one person who can still see him - a little girl by the name of Kirara. The two are soon friends, especially since Kirara's mother is a sex worker who leaves the little girl alone for prolonged periods of time. Kenta is a ghost, but he still craves food that never sates him, and uses his invisibility to burglarise stores, sharing his bounty with Kirara. When he starts teaching Kirara how to fold a paper plane and fly it, his recklessness and apathy about risk and death mean that Kirara's life is also soon in danger. There is a sense of irreversible passage of time and post-war trauma hanging over this story, as Kenta tries to make sense of his new, changed environment, and there are themes here of child neglect and homelessness. Nakajima's "light-hearted" prose vis-à-vis the story's disturbing implications did not sit well with me, but it is still one intriguing short story. I read it in Things Remembered and Things Forgotten by Kyōko Nakajima [translated by Ian Mccullough MacDonald and Ginny Tapley Takemori, Sort of Books 2021].
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