![]() ![]() Now a young woman in an asexual Marriage of Convenience with the similarly-traumatised and restricted Tomoya, Natsuki attempts to live a normal life and become brainwashed by "The Factory" (aka Japanese society) in order to forget her shattered childhood. But life for Natsuki goes downhill fast after Obon, and a horrific event results in Yuu and Natsuki being forbidden from seeing each other ever again. While Natsuki is visiting her grandparents for that summer's Obon festivities, she and Yuu promise each other that they'll get married and find a way to get Yuu and Piyyut back to their home planet of Popinpobopia. She is neglected by her parents in favour of her bratty and neurotic older sister Kise, and finds a kindred spirit in her cousin Yuu, who suffers from similar neglect and copes by believing that he's actually an alien, and that his mother Ritsuko's verbal abuse of him was simply her telling him the truth about his identity. ![]() None of this is true, of course - Piyyut is just an ordinary keychain plush, and Natsuki's magic wand is just an elaborate origami - but it makes Natsuki feel like she's needed. It tells the story of Natsuki Sonomura, a young girl who believes she has been chosen by an alien named Piyyut to save Earth from the Wicked Witch, who has been using her magic to corrupt the hearts of humans. How far would you go just to be yourself?Įarthlings Original Japanese 地球星人, literally "terrestrials" is the sophomore novel by Japanese author Sayaka Murata, released in 2018 in Japan and globally (with an English translation by Ginny Tapley Takemori) in 2020. ![]()
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