How To Eat Life

Project Status: ACTIVE This project has been updated within the past 3 months.

How To Eat Life Volume 1 cover

How to Eat Life (いのちの食べ方 Inochi no Tabekata) is a light novel written by Eve, Jyumonji Ao, and drawn by Lack. It is based on the song of the same name and follows the main protagonist of the songs, Tobi Otogiri.

Synopsis

The world of music & PVs from the trendy artist Eve has been turned into a novel! Tobi Otogiri is in the second year of junior high school. He does not get involved with his classmates much and spends his days talking in secret with his partner, Baku, a backpack left behind by a strange One-Eyed Man on the day he and his brother were separated. "You talk to that bag a lot, don't you, little brother Kiri-kun?" However, it is discovered that his secret has been revealed to his classmate, Ryuko Shiratama. As Tobi's daily life begins to change, an accident occurs in class. It seems that the cause of the accident lies in something "non-human" that only Tobi and Ryuko are able to see... This is an adventure of one boy's confrontation with reality and the extraordinary, "human" and "non-human. A story of "life" eating "life".

Awards

Newcomer MF Bunko J Award of the Year 2022 (1st Place, Paperback Category)

Newcomer MF Bunko J Teenage Category Award 2022 (1st Place)

Tsugirano 2022 (1st Place)

How To Eat Life by Jyumonji Ao

Volume 1

How To Eat Life Volume 1 cover

Prologue: A Past=. Beyond

Project Staff

• Supervisor: Mishiyirou
• Project Manager: Mishiyirou
• Translators:
  • Mishiyirou (talk) (Active)
• Proofreaders:
  • Pudding (Active)

Project Details & Registration

Translators are asked to message Mishiyirou (talk) beforehand to avoid confusion.

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