Plants implanted into the human body. They look fashionable, and because they absorb nutrients from the body to grow, people inadvertently achieve a slim figure as well. Prompted by preferential tax treatment introduced by the government, they became a massive trend across Japan. And that trend was also the beginning of a transformation in human consciousness...

Following last year's “Tokyo Ginkei-sha Anthology: Beyond That Sky Someday,” this year saw the release of “Tokyo Ginkei-sha Anthology: Mako and the Mirror.” As a sponsor, Anima Solaris consulted with editor Toka Kuzumi about presenting the “Anima Solaris Award” to an outstanding work. After deliberation, “Well-being” by Yoh Kumoha was selected. This is the commemorative interview for the award.

In the milestone 40th anniversary year of Daicon 5, Toshiya Okamoto has published an incredible, labor-intensive work providing a bird's-eye view of Japanese SF conventions from the Kansai region. We asked him about the behind-the-scenes struggles and the significance of this book.

Reiji Nagata, whom we previously interviewed for his "Clockwork Sea" series, started a new serialization in a special issue of Big Comic. We had been eagerly waiting for the compiled volume, and it was finally published on May 29th. To commemorate the release, we asked him various questions about the new series.

You might wonder why we are reviewing this now, but after obtaining an autographed copy, we realized we hadn't reviewed it yet (sweat). Thus, this is a commemorative review for acquiring the signed book. This book is highly recommended for many SF fans!

It started as a project to study how the mental structure of long-lived elves changes when subjected to various relativistic time dilations in space or virtual reality, in order to find ways to cope with the harsh universe. Three spacecraft, equipped with copies of those minds, lived in slightly different times, offset from each other. These are the records of those spacecraft.

The fusion ramjet spacecraft Noah's Ark flies toward a habitable world for humanity. Within it, human consciousness is preserved, forming a city called the "League." When the Cosmosphere, a simulacrum of a future Earth, dreams of humanity's future, what will the Ricci flow equation, which deforms the universe into a sphere, bring about there...?

At the request of a certain butler, I, a detective, ended up accompanying a billionaire on a round-the-world trip. When I visited a Siberian witch's shop, I became acquainted with a woman who seemed to be the shopkeeper, but...

1. The story of a spiritual life form dispatched to Gargantua.
2. The account of how the investigation division of a certain city police became an independent division and advanced into space.
3. The story of why the First Consul, holding the greatest power in the galaxy, makes a courtesy visit to a rural planet.

This is the 17th anime review in which the anime-loving man "Mayoko@Okayama" talks freely about his favorite anime. The anime he has covered this time are as follows:

“Fukuyama Gekijo: Natsu no Himitsu”, “Ghost Sweeper Mikami”, “The Magician Kunon Sees Everything”, “Ai City”

The following titles were added this time:

“Avatar: The Way of Water”, “Alien: Romulus”, “The Lobster”, “The Animal Kingdom”, “Misty Kid of Wind: The Glass Cape”, “The Birth of Kitaro: The Mystery of Gegege - Shinsei Version”, “Hana Manma”, “Cells at Work!”, “My Grandpa”, “Teki”, “Prey”, “Hellboy: The Crooked Man”