{"id":16561,"date":"2009-07-02T13:28:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T17:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=16561"},"modified":"2009-07-02T18:58:54","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T22:58:54","slug":"latest-koji-suzuki-novel-in-the-toilet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/latest-koji-suzuki-novel-in-the-toilet\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Koji Suzuki Novel in the Toilet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/latest-koji-suzuki-novel-in-the-toilet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/latest-koji-suzuki-novel-in-the-toilet.jpg\" alt=\"Latest Koji Suzuki Novel in the Toilet\" title=\"Latest Koji Suzuki Novel in the Toilet\" width=\"220\" height=\"293\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16585\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Acclaimed horror novelist Koji Suzuki, the author of <b>Ring<\/b> and <b>Dark Water<\/b> has published his latest fright tale, <b>Drop<\/b>, with a unique twist. The story of an evil spirit that inhabits a toilet bowl has been published not as a traditional book, but as a roll of toilet paper by toilet paper manufacturing company Hayashi Paper Corp. The nine-chapter story is printed in blue ink interspersed by splatters of red &#8220;blood.&#8221; The story is repeated over every 86 cm of paper. Each roll costs 210 yen.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese superstition holds that ghosts and evil spirits inhabit the smallest room in the house. The toilet ghost Hanako has appeared in anime including Haunted Junction, Toile no Hanako-san, and Gakkou no Kaiden.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/howaboutthat\/5381234\/Japanese-publisher-prints-horror-novel-on-toilet-roll.html\" target=\"_blank\">Telegraph.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acclaimed horror novelist Koji Suzuki, the author of Ring and Dark Water has published his latest fright tale, Drop, with a unique twist. The story of an evil spirit that inhabits a toilet bowl has been published not as a traditional book, but as a roll of toilet paper by toilet paper manufacturing company Hayashi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-off-topic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16561"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16586,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16561\/revisions\/16586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}