You See Death Too

The debut novel by a young Japanese writer about doomed lovers was met with a thunderous success at home. In this, his second novel, the author examines the theme of love and death from an unexpected angle.

One morning, high school student Arata Motizuki sees the number 99 above his reflection in the mirror. It means that in less than a hundred days he will die—and the countdown has already begun. From his own bitter experience, Arata knows that if the numbers of death appear above someone, you can’t save them anymore. Still, Arata is ready to accept his fate.

But his new classmate, Mai Kurosé, doesn’t intend to give up so easily. Like Arata, she has seen death-marked people since childhood—and now she’ll do anything to save the one she has already started to love.