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変な地図

変な地図

へんなちず
Author 雨穴 (うけつ) · Uketsu
Language Japanese
Format Novel
Published 2025
Pages 416
Read 2026-07-04 → 2026-07-12
Finished ★★★★★

Review

★★★★★

Uketsu’s books are really all so so good!
I loved 変な地図, I don’t know why, every time I read a new book by Uketsu, I try to keep my expectations low because I just can’t believe the new books can keep on being of the same quality, but they do! The mystery is really intriguing, the investigation extremely suspenseful, and all along it feels like all of this could be real.
I did find a part of the mystery better than the other, but it means that one was excellent while the other was just very good.
Contrary to the other books, I also found that the illustrations were a bit redundant, but it’s just the genre of the series, so it was not unpleasant to have so many of them.

Updates

100%

Finished it! I found the end very good :heart:

86%

Wow, the plot is really good!

67%

Finished chapter 3, just one more to go!

62%

More than halfway through it now! I’m really loving this novel!

43%

Finished chapter 2. The story is so intriguing… I’m loving 変な地図 as much as the other novels so far!

27%

For some reason I’m always lacking time for this book… sometimes it happens that you absolutely love a book, and you feel like you could finish it in one sitting if you had time, but you don’t.
Anyway, I’m really loving the story and it reads very easily like Uketsu’s other books.

21%

I finished the first chapter, it’s so engrossing!! It’s so mysterious too… the book is hard to put down.

12%

The beginning is so engrossing!! I wish I had time to read more…

Characters

第三章
腰沼
こしぬまKoshinuma
Employee at Yabitsu Railway, in charge of Kogakushi station
入丘
いりおかIrioka
Akari’s superior.
富永松乃
とみなが まつのTominaga Matsuno
Old woman in the train, professor, studies local history
剛堂
ごうどうGodo
Keitoku’s father, created the railway company
帆石水あかり
ほいしみず あかりHoishimizu Akari
24, police officer.
帆石水永作
ほいしみず えいさくHoishimizu Eisaku
Akari’s father, runs the boarding house.
雅也
まさやMasaya
Akari’s little brother
大里幸助
おおさと こうすけOsato Kosuke
President of Yabitsu Railway
矢比津啓徳
やびつ けいとくYabitsu Keitoku
Chairman of Yabitsu Railway
栗原文宣
くりはら ふみのりKurihara Fuminori
22, student in architecture.
小田笠
おだがさOdagasa
Principal of 小田笠設計舎
沙耶
さやSaya
Fuminobu’s young sister
知嘉子
ちかこChikako
Fuminobu’s grand-mother (mother side)
冲上喜見子
おきがみ きみこOkigami Kimiko
Author of the confession
果乃
かのKano
Probably Kimiko’s daughter

Vocabulary

WordReadingDefinition
集落 しゅうらく settlement; village; community; town
鑿 のみ chisel
金槌 かなづち hammer
麓 ふもと foot (of a mountain or hill)
抜擢 ばってき exceptional promotion
断層 だんそう fault

Fault: fracture or crack in the earth's crust where the rock on either side has moved, often causing earthquakes (faille géologique, faille sismique).
Interestingly, faults are the cause of most earthquakes (sth to do with energy release on active faults?), rather than being caused by them as mentioned in the novel. Faults are apparently caused by tectonic stress built over time, like when tectonic plates move and create too much pressure for the rock to endure, it creates faults?

Glossary

第一章
  • Organisation 矢比津鉄道 やびつてつどう Yabitsu Railway
  • Place 母娘山 もじょうやま Mount Mojo
  • Place 河蒼湖 かそうこ
    Where Kimiko is born
  • Place 湖隠 こがくし Kogakushi
    Name of the station West from Mount Mojo
  • Place 柿童 かきわら Kakiwara
    Name of the station East from Mount Mojo