Jin, also known as Shizen no Teki-P, created the Kagerou Project, a multimedia story that began with Vocaloid songs and expanded into light novels, manga and animation. The Kagerou Daze novels follow the Mekakushi Dan, a group of teenagers with unusual eye-related abilities whose lives are connected by repeating events, disappearances and the mysterious Kagerou Daze. Characters including Shintaro, Ene, Momo and Ayano appear across different parts of the project, with information deliberately spread between songs and prose. Jin’s writing is puzzle-like, dramatic and heavily serialised, rewarding readers who piece together timelines and character connections. For discovery, Kagerou Daze sits at the intersection of Japanese light novels, supernatural YA and Vocaloid-linked multimedia fiction, with its fractured chronology a major part of the appeal. Read more Less


