Hanayo Mendori

Not much interesting information can be found regarding a ‘Hanayo Mendori’. The most one can find are pictures of the tall blonde, in a couple images she’s with a few others, along with an old and rather empty-looking blog. If someone bothered to search hard enough, they could also find an incredibly recent and short news article about her reveal as the prolific cell phone novelist, Chouka Hanatsuma.

Looking up information by searching ‘Chouka Hanatsuma’ leads to a much larger array of information, including the news about her true identity being Hanayo Mendori. One could find links to the novels she’s written, her official site, and discussions and reviews of her work, among other things. Barely any pictures of her that refer to her as Chouka though. The only ones seen like that are her at book signings and other similar events.

Chouka’s first, and most popular, work is titled ‘Dumplings or Flowers’, a romance tale about a bride left behind at the altar, her fall from grace, and her attempts to figure out how the world works while also finding love. Other works of hers are ‘Caged Girl’, a love story featuring a catfishing hikikomori, ‘The Dark Bluebird’, a fantasy recounting the tales of two monsters making a living as treasure hunters, ‘Violet Veil’, a mystery concerning a private investigator’s search into a child actress’s disappearance, ‘Aienkien’, about a married man’s growing affection for the nurse taking care of him after an accident, and a few others after those, all romance.