Shiki Kawabata (

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: 川端志季; ''Kawabata Shiki'' b. in

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, Japan) is a Japanese writer specializing in

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. She debuted as a

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in 2012 with ''08:05 no Hengao-san'', a short story published in a supplement of the magazine

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.'Kawabata Shiki'
(n.d.) on Éditions Akata Her works are framed within the shōjo genre, which is mainly aimed at a young female audience. Her first series, which started in October 2014, was voted fifth best shōjo of 2015 in Japan. One of her most well known works is ''Sora wo Kakeru Yodaka'' (宇宙〈そら〉を駆けるよだか), first published, in serial format, in Bessatsu Margaret during 2014–2015; later compiled into three volumes by

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. As a result of the success of this work, in 2018 the media service provider

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produced an

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of Kawabata's manga in the form of a six-part live action

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under the title ''

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'', premiering on 1 August, about a teen whose 'world is turned upside down when a peer robs her of her body, her boyfriend and her identity'.'Switched'
(n.d.) on

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Works

Manga

Adaptations

* ''Switched'' (2018): miniseries based on ''Sora wo Kakeru Yodaka'', produced and distributed by Netflix.

References

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