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Lucky Girl, Unlucky Boy: A Fortune-Twisted Love Story Between Fate and Chaos
Paperback
Publisher: Ryusho Nemoto Works
Published: Nov 27 2025
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
When destiny starts to rewrite itself-does a single moment have the power to overturn an entire life?
At Fujishi High, an elite national program trains phenomenon predictors-students skilled in divination, probability reading, and the science of future events. Their quiet mountain town hides a government-backed academy where tradition, mathematics, and the supernatural coexist. Most people never learn it exists.
Kikuri, a shrine maiden whose fortunes always come true, is the star of the program. Her predictions are flawless-until one ordinary boy breaks the pattern.
Amamiya, a boy cursed with the worst luck in school, draws a fortune that should have destroyed his future. Instead, that single draw rewrites reality and pulls him into Kikuri's world of destiny mechanics, hidden rituals, and dangerous probabilities.
Together with Yagi, the sharp-eyed observer who remembers numbers instead of names, the three find themselves entangled in a secret struggle where the balance of fate can collapse without warning. Beneath the surface of Fujishi lies an unstable system-one powered by belief, mathematics, and the unpredictable hearts of teenagers trying to understand themselves.
Lucky Girl, Unlucky Boy blends school drama with mystery, romance, and speculative fantasy, exploring questions such as:
- Is luck just probability-or can it be rewritten?
- Where is the boundary between prediction and control?
- Why do people cling to destiny when they fear freedom?
As a series of strange incidents escalate-from impossible coincidences to failed rituals and collapsing predictions-Amamiya and Kikuri must uncover why the system of fate is breaking, and why he, of all people, is at the center of it.
From Ryusho Nemoto, author of The Executioner Who Refused to Kill the Suicidal Girl and After-School Sentai: After Five, comes a sharp, emotional young-adult fantasy where the supernatural meets logic, and where love and chaos constantly interfere with the future.
Perfect for readers who enjoy:
- Japanese YA fantasy
- School mysteries and supernatural drama
- Character-driven coming-of-age stories
- Light-novel style worldbuilding with philosophical depth
A fast-paced, atmospheric novel that blurs the line between science and superstition, luck and destiny-and asks what happens when fate chooses the wrong person.
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