{"product_id":"tatami-time-machine-blues-nomad-edition","title":"The Tatami Time Machine Blues (Nomad Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the boiling heat of summer, a broken remote control for an air conditioner threatens life as we know it in this reality-bending, time-slipping sequel to The Tatami Galaxy. During a scorching August in Kyoto, our protagonist and his worst friend, Ozu, are locked in a glaring contest in a four-and-a-half-tatami-mat room. Ozu has spilled Coke on the air conditioner’s remote control—the only AC in Shimogamo Yusuisuiso, their famously shabby sweatbox of an apartment building.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVengeful and despairing, our protagonist discusses countermeasures with his secret crush, the reliably blunt Akashi, when Tamura, a strange young man with a bad haircut, appears. Tamura claims to be a time traveler from 25 years in the future, and shows off the time machine he uses to travel. Our protagonist has a brilliant idea: the sweetest revenge would be to go back one day in time and retrieve the functioning remote control.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHis simple fix is complicated by Ozu and several others who are also eager to take a ride back in time. But in attempting to alter the past, our protagonist foresees the world's extinction. Even more troublingly, Akashi mentions she’s bringing someone to the upcoming bonfire .\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. . and it's not him.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOnly one thing remains certain: it's going to be a very long month. Obliteration? Salvation? Coca-Cola? Castella cake? What does the time machine hold for our (not quite) heroes? It all depends on which one gets there first. Translated from the Japanese by Emily Balistrieri\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"EMKA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53044339999051,"sku":"9780063485846","price":15.41,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/3549\/8785\/files\/4d9b56ad501f8f7db3fcbe28f9d73ee7.jpg?v=1770749865","url":"https:\/\/emka.si\/products\/tatami-time-machine-blues-nomad-edition","provider":"EMKA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}