Relations between them deteriorate, and Mayu takes to wandering the streets of Shibuya. When her parents abscond from the family home, she is left in the care of an uncle and his family. The heroine of Anonymous on the Streets is Mayu, a 16-year-old in her first year in high school. A sequel will be serialized in the Shūkan Asahi from next spring. In her 2018 novel Rojō no X (Anonymous on the Streets), she depicts female high school students who have lost their moorings and are exploited in the shady world of “subsidized dating” and the “ JK industry” (JK stands for joshi kōsei, or “high school girls”).
Her novels portray heroines in difficult circumstances, and reveal the dark side and structural problems of Japanese society today. For more than quarter of a century, Kirino Natsuo’s bestselling novels have depicted women in a variety of desperate situations: housewives working the night shift at a food factory who get embroiled in murder, an employee at an elite company who finds fulfilment by selling herself on the streets at night, and a former member of the United Red Army who has kept her past a secret.
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