The novel of the hilarious and raunchy manga about a paranoid recluse who finally crawls out of his shell!

Tatsuhiko Takimoto came to Earth in 1978, in a place called Hakodate in Hokkaido. He grew up in the rural north of Japan before moving to Tokyo for further studies. He dropped out during his second year in Tokyo’s Senshu University . Tatsuhiko Became a self confessed “top-runner” of the hikkikomori generation and a writer of denpa-kei stories. During his four years as a hikkikomori he had produced three novellas or light novels. Even though he’s only got three books to his credit, he’s recognised as one of the rising stars in the post-Murakami Japanese literature movement, characterised by the advent of the ‘light novel’. The light novel is a peculiar genre of literature that’s linked to Otaku culture.