The Tatami Galaxy
Imagine an infinitely vast matrix of nearly identical, inescapable four-and-a-half-mat tatami rooms which can be (re)entered through door, window, or hole bashed through wall—you could call it a ‘tatami galaxy’. My translation of mega-popular, anime-adapted author Tomihiko Morimi’s The Tatami Galaxy came out in 2022. Originally published in Japanese in 2004, the campus novel unfolds…