The first book in the newly produced paperback series, "The Last Doctor Looks Up at the Cherry Blossoms and Thinks of You," is now on sale! A shocking and moving medical novel

2016.11.08 Press Releases
TSUTAYA Co., Ltd.

TSUTAYA Co., Ltd. (Head office: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo / President and COO: Kazuo Nakanishi / hereinafter referred to as "TSUTAYA"), which operates approximately 813 bookstores nationwide, is promoting the "TSUTAYA will change the way you encounter books. Based on the concept of "New Release Produced by Bookstore Staff," TSUTAYA BOOKS staff will find truly interesting and confidently recommendable works from submitted novels and novels in the planning stage that have not yet been published in book form, and launch a project called "Bookstore Staff Selected New Release Produced by Bookstore Staff."The first of these will be "The Last Doctor Looks Up at the Cherry Blossoms and Thinks of You" (published by TO Books/TO Bunko) by popular author Atsuto Ninomiya, which will be released sequentially from November.

Although over 80,000 new books are released each year, many of these books end up buried without ever reaching the hands of customers. In February of this year, we launched the "Reprint Produced Library," which unearths and reprints great out-of-print books. This has been well received by many customers, and the fourth volume has already been released. In response to this, we have expanded the titles from reprints to new releases, and in the "New Release Produced Paperbacks Selected by Bookstore Staff" we will produce high-quality works and select works that are worthy of being published as books and that we would like to recommend to our customers.

◆ "New book production project" mastermind:
A word from Rikiya Kurimata (TSUTAYA Sangenjaya store staff)
It was a very, very heavy work that made me think over and over again about death. Among them, there was one tiny glimmer of hope at the very end, and I couldn't help but shed tears.

◆ "The Last Doctor Looks Up at the Cherry Blossoms and Thinks of You" Book Summary
・Author: Atsuto Ninomiya ・Illustration: syo5 ・Publisher: TO Books/TO Bunko
Release date: November 1, 2016 / Price: 650 yen (excluding tax)

◆Author introduction: Atsuto Ninomiya
Born in Tokyo. After graduating from the Faculty of Economics at Hitotsubashi University, he worked as a mobile content producer for a general company. After that, she aimed to become a novelist, and the horror novels she published on the mobile novel sites "Mahou no iLand" and "E★Everystar" became a hot topic, leading to her debut as a novelist in 2009 with "!"The "!" series has become a best-seller, selling over 190,000 copies in total. The motivation for creating this work is, "I don't want to die. He continues to work energetically as an artist, stating that his belief is that "in order to survive, I have to work harder than anyone else and continue to produce good works."

In the future, TSUTAYA will launch a series of "Newly Produced Paperbacks Selected by Bookstore Staff," in which bookstore staff will deliver high-quality works to customers, aiming to offer a rich reading experience that allows customers to enjoy "encountering books."

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TSUTAYA is changing the way we "encounter books"! The first of our newly produced paperbacks, "The Last Doctor Looks Up at the Cherry Blossoms and Thinks of You," is now on sale! A shocking and moving medical novel, highly praised by TSUTAYA BOOKS staff

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