This is the list of the major works of Yugen. It also includes interviews. The latest information on Yugen’s works is delivered via e-mail magazine (Japanese) and Twitter (English).
Hosshoji is a nine-storied pagoda that is also a spaceship. The astromonks begin an adventurous journey to visit the Great Buddha on a faraway planet! On sale as an e-book from Tokyo Sogensha. The audiobook version is available from Audible.co.jp and Kikubon.
Final Anchors (The Grand Prix winner of the 5th Nikkei Hoshi Awards)
A man’s precious memories are locked in by a piece of ransomware. He does everything to regain his memories of his beloved sister, but instead, finds a horrifying truth.
Humanity is “initialized” by a nuclear war. A fraction of humans randomly selected and transferred to an alien planet. They discuss how to start humanity all over.
In a post-apocalyptic town, a group of junior high school students fights with mysterious enemies on their way home. They cannot rely on adults. They have to outsmart these monsters.
Sentient stars imitate humans and play “Romeo and Juliet.” Eventually, they commit themselves to it in an unexpected way. Why is humanity alone in the universe? An answer to Fermi Paradox is here.
A millionaire vlogger goes back in time and arrives in Edo, old Tokyo. What he witnesses is a giant wooden robot leading a Daimyo procession. It is a world without the Meiji Restoration, where the countries other than Japan isolated themselves. This Edo is ignorant of modernization, and it is visited by “aliens” who are from a different world. Trading with them has developed a civilization based on wood, instead of iron.
A robot boy arrives in a junior high school classroom where a boy is the target of bullying. What is the agenda of the robot boy? What can robots do? What are the things they can’t do? And what they should do with humans?