state of inactivity or equilibrium.

[lifftchi]

Been (re)reading some of Murakami's minor works. (I'm just making this category up, but I'm pretty sure it's a reasonable division to make.) One of them was After Dark, which I'm pretty sure I've mentioned that I thought he was just phoning in. It's got his usual character types behaving as you'd expect. Dual world, evocation of Tokyo,

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[ssj_mato]

Maybe because most modern Japanese like soft food? I remember at a Fanime Con past (still in Santa Clara) mangaka Aro Hiroshi (creator of Futaba-kun Change!) lamented that the old fashioned senbei he liked, the really hard crunchy kind, was falling out of favor with today's young nihonjin. As a result the teeth of a generation were growing weaker.