A review by porge_grewe
Hit Parade of Tears by Izumi Suzuki

4.5

An excellent set of short stories, though not quite as polished and consistent as the previous collection, Terminal Boredom. In many ways it feels like a forerunner to Sayaka Murata's Earthlings - Even down to one of the short stories feeling like a prequel to it - But there's a punk irreverence to it all which stops the horror being too horrifying, and it goes in much more for the weird. A lot of the other reviews reference punk, which is apt because she talks about music a lot in the stories, especially the third story in the collection and my personal favourite "Hey! It's a Love Psychedelic!", which manages to do something which literature often stumbles over, and which must have been a nightmare for the translator - An effective and playful time travel story.