She is also the only character left to pick up the pieces at the end of the novel. Ninna is perhaps the most normal of the five, but she too is more than a little jaded with the social roles she is expected to fill, and her comments about herself and her friends are full of insight. The “main” narrator, who narrates the first and last of the eight chapters, is Ninna Hori. Terauchi is smart kid with a bright future, but she has been deeply scarred by her mother’s extramarital affair.
Kirarin is a perfect princess in school but leads a shady side life of compensated dating in Tokyo.
Yuzan is a lesbian from the wrong side of the tracks who has tried to find love in Tokyo but failed, leaving her disillusioned with life. Of these five characters, Worm is the least interesting. The characters in question are Worm, an underachieving student at an elite high school who “snaps” and murders his mother, and a group of four high school girls who help him run from the law. That being said, it is an extraordinarily dark novel, and just as heartbreaking as Out and Grotesque.įans of fragmented narratives will appreciate the structure of Real World, which is divided into eight different chapters, each narrated by a different character. Real World is about 250 pages shorter, less graphic, and less upsetting. Grotesque is extremely graphic and upsetting for hundreds of pages. I would argue, however, that this is not necessarily a bad thing. Real World is not as long or as grand of a story as Grotesque and, as a result, it is much less intense. Having already reviewed Rebecca Copeland’s translation of Grotesque, I thought it wouldn’t hurt to go ahead and write an entry for Philip Gabriel’s new translation of Kirino Natsuo’s novel Real World. Publication Year: 2008 (America) 2003 (Japan)
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