We present an author interview with Yoshiki Hiraya, who has released his 25th anniversary novel “The Legend of Munetō Abe”. Joining him is Masahiko Takahashi, whose book “The Iwate Mystery Studies Drifting Chronicle” explores historical enigmas. Takahashi’s insights were a key influence on Hiraya’s path to writing historical fiction.

In a future where Earth’s fate has come to an end, I drift through space aboard a generation ship, mourning the loss of my beloved Kōta to illness. What pulled me out of despair was the performance of a certain band…

Now 34, Mikoto Kazuki has once again set their sights on becoming the Galactic Emperor.

Back in the day, they collected “Galactic Emperor Chocolates” and adored the most powerful emperor of all—Ixear. And now, they’ve joined an interstellar mission to exterminate space ants in pursuit of that dream.

Punished for a blunder, I was reincarnated from a shinigami into a human.

My next mission? Overseeing a massive server replacement at a data center—along with the secret side job of exorcising spiritual disturbances.

Naturally, the behind-the-scenes work takes ten times the effort… and of course, I’m the only one who can handle it.

A galactic reconstruction plan is set into motion under Kusumi’s supervision, in a galaxy once dominated by two massive powers—the Galactic Empire and the Galactic Federation—whose territories were nearly identical in scale…

This is the ninth 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:

“Maps”, “Dirty Pair”, “Ozanari Dungeon: The Tower of Wind”, “Princess Principal”, “Harmagedon: Genma Wars”, “Sasuga no Sarutobi”, “Scrapped Princess”, “Kiddy Grade”, “8 Man”

The following titles were added this time:

“Gravity”, “The Martian”, “Isn’t Anyone Alive?”, “Bitter Honey”, “Lie lie Lie”, “Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction”, “Skyline”, “Beyond Skyline”, “Skylines”