Our Seven-Day War Our Angel Game (Our Detective Team I)

Author: [Japan] Muneyuki Soeda
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Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features: "Our Detective Club 1" is part of the series, including "Our Seven-Day War" and "Our Angel Game," suitable for a broad young adult readership. Written by the renowned Japanese juvenile fiction author Muneyuki Soeda, the suspenseful young adult series "Our Detective Club" has been published by Japan's Kadokawa Shoten since 1985, remaining popular for over two decades and has even been adapted into a film. The novel follows the various mysterious events that occur around Yousuke, Aihara, and others over the three years from their first to third year of junior high school. Written twenty years ago, the novel lacks the contemporary elements of the internet and games, yet the author keenly captures the conflicts between young people and the world as they enter society. Even today, the same worries lie behind the different lives of young people.
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In the day before summer vacation, on an extremely hot day, all the male students of Class 2, Grade 1 in a Tokyo downtown middle school suddenly disappeared. Was it an accident? Or a group abduction? Neither. In fact, they had established a so-called "liberation zone" in an abandoned factory by the river and launched a "rebellion" against adults.
Why did these first-year junior high students do this? What measures would the school, parents, or even the police take? And what would the outcome be? This intriguing and entertaining story reflects various social issues, such as excessive academic pressure and arbitrary physical punishment by schools, carrying strong inspirational significance.