Gonbe Shinkawa – författare

YOKOHAMA STATION HAS SWALLOWED 99% OF MAINLAND JAPAN Two hundred years ago, Yokohama Station, which had been under constant construction, developed the ability to self-propagate. Now with nearly all Honshu, the mainisland of Japan, consumed by the growing station, the population has been split into two groups: those who live inside the sprawl with fare cards embedded in their brains and the few who persist on the remaining scraps of untouched land. Hiroto has lived his whole life on the outside, but when an exile from the station entrusts him with a mission and a ticket, he ventures into the ominous belly of the beast for the first time…

Seeking strength and glory, the adventurer Lecan challenges monster and maze alike. Until one day, he finds a mysterious black hole…leading to another world! But even in a different world, the path of the “One-Eyed Wolf” remains unchanged. The only question is—can he survive the new world?

After leaving Zeidmoore Manor and returning to the life of a traveling adventurer, Lecan’s first order of business is to find an apothecary capable of replenishing his limited stock of effective medicine. His best bet lies in the city of Volka, and he is soon hired as a bodyguard for a wagon headed there—a position he will share with the (self-professed) master adventurer Eda. Can Lecan survive attacks by monsters and bandits with only someone who couldn’t fight her way out of a paper bag watching his back?!

After overcoming countless trials, Lecan has proven himself worthy to Sheila, a “humble” apothecary of immense magic power. While her knowledge of pharmacy is more than valuable enough, Lecan also learns how to use an entirely new form of magic under her tutelage, a discovery that has the stoic, hardened adventurer grinning with childish delight. Armed with more abilities than ever before, Lecan resolves to take on the greatest challenge he’s faced in this world—Golbul dungeon...

Hiroto’s journey through the depths of Yokohama Station has led him to Keiha Nijo, leader of the once-great Dodger Alliance, whose technology allows her to obscure her location and evade the station’s robotic guards. The Winter War, tactical AIs, and dormant machine minds…Will her whispered stories at l ast reveal the secrets of the station? Meanwhile, engineer Toshiru Kubo steals a gun and deserts JR Fukuoka, where artillery shells explode against the growing concrete in a desperate battle versus the station. What will he find in nearly abandoned Shikoku? Nothing less than anarchy on an island conceded to the inexorable station that will soon consume it, and rumors of a ghost at the power station…

YOKOHAMA STATION HAS SWALLOWED 99% OF MAINLAND JAPAN With help from Keiha Nijo of the Dodger Alliance, Hiroto has followed the Professor’s whispered int imat ions to Exit 42 in the mountainous interior of Yokohama Stat ion. There, in the heart of the beast, an ancient monitor flickers to life, and an image of the Professor in his youth, a haunting digital simulacrum, awakens from its slumber. And just nearby, there is a button—one that, when pressed, could end the Yokohama Station Hiroto has always relied on and has now come to know. Would activating it mean overthrowing a tyrant, or would it mean extinguishing the life-giving sun? In this final volume, turnstiles crawl the hallways, electric guns pierce the station’s hum, and secrets are revealed…

Agredios, the son of a local landowner, arrives home from a long hunt...only to find his village silent and devoid of its usual laughter and commotion. What he discovers is an unimaginable agony that sparks a desire to avenge his fallen people by slaying the witch of the forbidden woods. But is the witch truly as vile as rumors say? A new quest begins: to discover the truth, save lives, and survive.

Agredios the knight and Cetia the witch have made an uneasy alliance to revitalize the lands where they both live. But the sudden influx of refugees from the fire-ravaged village of Achines presents a more immediate problem—how to keep everyone fed. So Ag decides to hunt one of the massive bovine monstrosities known as tauroth…only to find that there is worse trouble on the way when their band of survivors attracts the attention of the crusaders who put Achines to the torch…