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The King of Novels

2019 · 1 season

A quiet, gentle character study of creative burnout and second chances, carried by small emotional beats rather than plot.

Created by
Kazumasa Hayami
Genres
Drama
Overview
Toyotaka Yoshida is a novelist. He was the winner of a big writing prize in his past, but he has been in a slump since then. Toyotaka Yoshida feels the limit of his writing ability and is thinking about quitting. Around this time, he meets his Shuntaro Koyanagi who is his friend and editor and Haruka Sakura who is a fan.

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Created by
Kazumasa Hayami
Genres
Drama
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • art
  • ambition
  • identity
  • friendship
  • healing
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour3
Realism8
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight5

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Genres
drama
Created by
Kazumasa Hayami
Starring
Yu Koyanagi, Hitomi Miyauchi, Alan Shirahama, Sunada Masahiro
Length
1 seasons, 10 episodes, 23 min each
Network
Fuji TV
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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