Mizuki Tsujimura Books In Order

Publication Order of Lonely Castle in the Mirror Books

Publication Order of The Lost Souls Books

Publication Order of Mizuki Tsujimura Manga Books

Publication Order of A School Frozen in Time Books

Mizuki Tsujimura is a Japanese award-winning novelist.

Born in Fuefuki in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, Mizuki came into the world on February 29, 1980. She is known for writing novels for children as well as mystery novels.

Mizuki studied at Chiba University, winning the Naoki Prize in 2012 for Kagi no nai Yume wo Miru (I Saw a Dream Without a Key). She also won the Japan Booksellers’ Award in 2018 for her novel Kagami no Kojo (Lonely Castle in the Mirror).

Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon is the first book in the Lost Soul series by Mizuki Tsujimura. This is a suspenseful magical realism story that is about a teenage Go Between who is able to set meetings up between the living and the dead. If you have been looking for something that is supernatural but also very fun, this story is a great selection.

The Go-Between brings together those who are living and who have departed. When a young woman from Tokyo gets in touch with the Go-Between in order to ask for a meeting with the dead television star who once was able to help her, she did not anticipate that the person who was going to show up would be a teenage boy.

Ayumi Shibuya is dressed in a duffel coat (designer) and carrying a notebook with him (tattered). He is the mysterious intermediary and he is able to give a service to others that not many others are able to: he is apparently able to get the living in touch with the departed. It is a luxury and a service that people are willing to pay handsomely for as not everyone has this ability and it is so important to them to get in touch with those in the beyond.

Ayumi meets with clients at a fancy hotel and ends up putting down the ground rules for the interaction. Each of the reunions is to be simply a one time arrangement that the dead have the option of refusing. The service is free and the meeting has to take place during the course of a full moon.

Ayumi sets up these reunions and as he does we run into an older son full of resentment who wants to ask his mother to give up the deeds to a plot of land. We also meet a teen girl who blames herself for the death of her best friend as well as a businessman who is looking for answers about his fiancee who went missing days after he proposed. With every rendezvous, new clues start to come up, which let readers get to the bottom of the mystery of the boy in the duffel coat who will see his own story revealed in due time.

This book was a huge bestseller in Japan and the story itself is great storytelling that readers will appreciate from a new voice in fiction. The international sensation that is Mizuki Tsujimura helps to make a page turner that is tough to forget where the dead and the living get one last chance for closure. Read this book to find out what happens in the end!

How to Hold Someone In Your Heart is the second book in the Lost Soul series by Mizuki Tsujimura. This is a followup to the first national bestseller, and picks up with the story seven years later with Ayumi, a go-between and a young man who has been caught up in all the demands of regular life and his extraordinary ability to be able to connect the dead with the living.

Ayumi has an ability that not too many other people in the world have. He was able to inherit it from his grandmother. When it is during a full moon and while he is guided by the strict rules, he is able to arrange some meetings between the souls who have passed and the ones that they have left behind. But after serving for years in this role Ayumi is starting to question the meaning that it has and the impact that it has had on his life.

As he attempts to balance his supernatural calling with the full time job that he has as a toy designer in Tokyo, Ayumi is conflicted. He has started to consider the nature of peace and whether it is available for himself. After all, he helps so many others to attain that state of peace, but could it possibly be available to him?

In between pondering this, Ayumi helps out five different individuals. These include a film star who is rising through the ranks who is looking for closure with the same father who abandoned him. Then there’s a passionate amateur historian who wants to meet a forgotten 16th century warlord, as well as a former cook who has made repeated requests to be able to visit an upper-class woman in the afterlife, but who still is not going to give up on love.

Full of light, a magical story and one that is guaranteed to lift you up, this is a unique novel and one that will be tough to forget. It is a study on being able to live without regret and teaches readers on how they can embrace the unexpected while also cherishing and holding to their heart the quick moments in time that we are given. Read How to Hold Someone in Your Heart to cherish every minute!