This author interview features Yoshiki Hiraya in conversation with Saori Abe, an announcer from FM Iwate, Hiraya’s hometown radio station. In addition to the 10th volume of "Rental Shop Oyo", we also discussed the 110th volume of the "Hyakuya/Hyakki Yagyocho" series and upcoming publications.

We interviewed Osamu Sugimura, a regular contributor to Anima Solaris, on the occasion of his publication of "Shizukuishi and Fantasy Tales," a community revitalization story collection funded through crowdfunding. The interview also touches on "Local Cthulhu Mythos: Rainbow and Shadow," which links the Cthulhu Mythos with the town of Shizukuishi, as well as works he has published since his last appearance.

We previously featured Daiki Aogiri in an interview and review for the Tokyo Ginkei-sha anthology “Beyond That Sky Someday” in Issue 238. Now that he has released his own selected works collection titled "Aotoridori," we are pleased to introduce it here. As we had a few questions while reading, we invited Aogiri once again for a special appearance.

The soul weighs 21 grams. The matter displacement device he inherited consumed a bit of the soul with each use. On Mars, he rose to fame as a magician thanks to that device—but what fate awaited him in the end...?

We are hybrid humans. We took on these bodies to live more human lives. Entrusted with war, we were eventually connected and parallelized with tens of thousands of others like us...

Reincarnated from a grim reaper into a human as punishment for a blunder, I now work as a company employee tasked with exorcising evil spirits. One day, I tried to help a woman possessed by a monstrous entity, but...

"Yuu" always shows up at every major event in my life. She’s my childhood friend, my wife—and also a selfless manager of spacetime. But then...

A three-person recon team—misfits all—moves through a sandstorm on an abandoned planet. Their mission: to destroy a minor enemy outpost. But the facility turns out to be fortress-sized... for a hidden reason they never expected.

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:

“I’m a Corrupt Lord of an Interstellar Nation”, “Your Forma”, “Catching at the Ballpark”, “Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody”, “Getter Robo Arc”, “The Decline of Recording Culture”, “My Subculture: 1948–1969”

This time, the biographical films include “Harimau”, “Rikidōzan”, “Steve Jobs (2013)”, and “Oppenheimer”.

As for absurdist films, we have “The Platform” and “Cube”.