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Kafka on the Shore
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Kafka on the Shore (Japanese: 海辺のカフカ, Umibe no Kafuka) is a 2002 novel by Haruki Murakami that features two distinct plots that are nonetheless intertwined. The first is about fifteen year-old "Kafka" Tamura who runs away from home in order to avoid fulfilling an oedipal prophecy. The second follows Nakata, a mentally slow old man who has the ability to talk to cats, as he gets dragged into a journey across Japan running parallel to Kafka's own. It begins realistic enough, but soon takes a turn for the surreal and it becomes clear that neither will be having a normal journey. | |
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A Form You Are Comfortable With | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_106f1a77 | comment |
A Form You Are Comfortable With: Colonel Sanders is actually a sort of conceptual being. He considered taking on the form of Mickey Mouse, but decided against it. This may also be the case with Johnnie Walker. | |
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The Runaway | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_15177ded | comment |
The Runaway: Kafka runs away from his dad's home because he is afraid of fulfilling a prophecy that he would kill his father and sleep with his mother and sister. | |
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Cool Old Guy | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_17501df2 | comment |
Cool Old Guy: Nakata is a bit strange, but he's an unambiguously good man. | |
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Title Drop | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_18d15922 | comment |
Title Drop: Dropped by Oshima when he reveals that "Kafka on the Shore" is a song in-universe. | |
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Childhood Friend Romance | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_1c8e096e | comment |
Childhood Friend Romance: Miss Saeki had one... which ended badly. | |
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| Kafka on the Shore / int_1f39b662 | type |
Discard and Draw | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_1f39b662 | comment |
Discard and Draw: Nakata loses the ability to talk to cats but gains the ability to make it rain animals, to detect and talk to the entrance stone, and to locate Komura Library when he cannot even read street signs. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_22cf536c | comment |
Chekhov's Gun: Directly namedropped and discussed by Colonel Sanders and Hoshino. | |
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May–December Romance | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_234fa9ba | comment |
May–December Romance: The fifteen-year-old Kafka initiates a sexual relationship with Miss Saeki, who is old enough to be his mother. | |
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Parental Abandonment | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_297ab1b9 | comment |
Parental Abandonment: Kafka never knew his mother. | |
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| Kafka on the Shore / int_308a5ff0 | type |
Strange Minds Think Alike | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_308a5ff0 | comment |
Strange Minds Think Alike: When Kafka encounters a ghostly girl in his room, he likens the atmosphere to being at the bottom of a crater lake. "Kafka on the Shore"'s lyrics also mention of a crater lake. | |
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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_30d2ae29 | comment |
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Try as he might, Kafka still ends up sleeping with his mother, even when he runs away from home in an attempt to avoid his father's prophecy. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_34dcfc96 | comment |
Kick the Dog: When Nakata was little, his teacher hit him in the head for seeing her clean up her period blood, resulting in him being mentally disabled. Also probable is that it's the influence of the shiny thing in the sky, whatever it was, since he gained the ability to speak to cats afterwards. Two words: Johnnie. Walker. He is almost clinical in his murdering of paralyzed cats, which just makes him look more despicable. | |
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| Kafka on the Shore / int_37c95f05 | type |
Asleep for Days | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_37c95f05 | comment |
Asleep for Days: When Hoshino and Nakata arrive in Shikoku, Nakata promptly goes to sleep for 34 hours. He pulls this off at least two more times. | |
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Intergenerational Friendship | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_47d35854 | comment |
Intergenerational Friendship: Nakata and Hoshino, a truck driver in his twenties who thinks that Nakata resembles his own grandfather. | |
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Wham Line | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_4e7c4536 | comment |
Wham Line: Oshima certainly knows how to shut up Straw Feminists. | |
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| Kafka on the Shore / int_4fa65449 | type |
Dream Land | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_4fa65449 | comment |
Dream Land: Near the end of the book, Kafka subconcious drives him to infiltrate a dream of Sakura's to fulfill the other half of the prophecy even though he doesn't want to. | |
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Painting the Medium | |
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Painting the Medium: In some ways more subtle than others. Kafka's side of the story is written in first-person present tense; Nakata's is written in third-person past tense. Kafka talks to himself/the boy named Crow talks to Kafka in unquoted boldface type, as does Johnnie Walker's dog. A letter from Nakata's childhood teacher has the text left-aligned; the rest of the book is justified. | |
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Bookworm | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_532a8261 | comment |
Bookworm: Kafka and Oshima both read a lot and often discuss classics. | |
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| Kafka on the Shore / int_5bca5a56 | type |
Surprise Incest | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_5bca5a56 | comment |
Surprise Incest: Kafka has sex with two women who might be his mom and sister. | |
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| Kafka on the Shore / int_6056f853 | type |
Homoerotic Subtext | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_6056f853 | comment |
Homoerotic Subtext: Oshima and Kafka frequently compliment each other's looks, Kafka blushing in response a few times. | |
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Parental Incest | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_606244c2 | comment |
Parental Incest: Kafka's father prophecies that he would do this with his mother. He eventually has sex with Ms. Saeki, who might be his mother. | |
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Pretty Boy | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_63be4131 | comment |
Pretty Boy: Oshima is described as "pretty, rather than handsome" with a clean look and a charming smile. This turns out to be entirely Justified; Oshima was assigned female at birth and is biologically intersex. | |
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Caught with Your Pants Down | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_657f77e4 | comment |
When Nakata was little, his teacher hit him in the head for seeing her clean up her period blood, resulting in him being mentally disabled. Also probable is that it's the influence of the shiny thing in the sky, whatever it was, since he gained the ability to speak to cats afterwards. | |
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Author Appeal | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_6627695f | comment |
Author Appeal: As usual in the case of Murakami; music, especially classical music and opera. There are several moments where the story takes a backseat to one character or another talking at length about various pieces of classical music. Sexuality and gender are also discussed. Also, cats get plenty of focus. | |
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Erotic Dream | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_66b98472 | comment |
Erotic Dream: Nakata's teacher has one which sets off a bizarre chain of events, and Kafka himself has a few. It is slowly revealed that both people were more likely astral projecting and what they did was "real". | |
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| Kafka on the Shore / int_66dfe36a | type |
Missing Mom | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_66dfe36a | comment |
Missing Mom: Kafka's mom left when he was very young, taking his sister with her. | |
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Brought Down to Normal | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_66ea7e5c | comment |
Brought Down to Normal: Nakata loses the ability to talk to cats after killing Johnnie Walker. Ultimately subverted for a possible Discard and Draw—he may have already had these abilities, but after that incident he displays the ability to make it rain animals, the ability to speak to the entrance stone, and some kind of sixth sense that allows him to find the stone and the Komura Library. | |
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| Kafka on the Shore / int_6c313cd | type |
One-Hit Wonder | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_6c313cd | comment |
One-Hit Wonder: In-Universe, "Kafka on the Shore" was a runaway hit. It was also Miss Saeki's only song—there wasn't even a different song for the B-side. | |
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| Kafka on the Shore / int_6c3d1777 | type |
Magic A Is Magic A | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_6c3d1777 | comment |
Magic A Is Magic A: Johnnie Walker and his quest for a cat soul flute are bound by very strict and specific rules. He must kill the cat in a way that would have it experience pain. He cannot cover his clothes from the blood splatter. He is bound to complete the flute and cannot get out of it through suicide. | |
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My Greatest Failure | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_6ee10e0 | comment |
My Greatest Failure: It's strongly implied that Miss Saeki is Kafka's mother who walked out on him, and she's been living in isolation as a self-imposed punishment ever since. | |
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| Kafka on the Shore / int_715704e5 | type |
Jigsaw Puzzle Plot | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_715704e5 | comment |
Jigsaw Puzzle Plot: Especially Nakata's side of the story, which is partly divulged through military documents and personal correspondence. | |
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You Can't Fight Fate | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_7241785e | comment |
You Can't Fight Fate: Kafka runs away from home to escape a prophecy that he would kill his father and have sex with his sister and mother. It's because he runs away that he meets Sakura and Saeki, two women who may or may not end up being his sister and mother, and ends up having sex with both of them. | |
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Arc Words | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_7464705c | comment |
Arc Words: Cryptic references to an "entrance stone" start showing up about halfway into the book. | |
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Brother–Sister Incest | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_771f6307 | comment |
Brother–Sister Incest: Sakura might be Kafka's sister. Doesn't stop her from masturbating Kafka on her bed nor Kafka from sleeping with her in a dream. | |
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| Kafka on the Shore / int_77c9a628 | type |
Your Soul Is Mine! | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_77c9a628 | comment |
Your Soul Is Mine!: Johnnie Walker is killing cats so he can take their souls and make a flute from them, which he'll use to steal human souls and continue from there. | |
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| Kafka on the Shore / int_78540917 | type |
Like Brother and Sister | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_78540917 | comment |
Like Brother and Sister: Whether Kafka and Sakura actually are siblings or not, Sakura sees their relationship this way, even although she sees nothing wrong in "helping" him to ease his sexual tension (she also claims to have a boyfriend). | |
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Middle Child Syndrome | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_83a30cd3 | comment |
Middle Child Syndrome: Hoshino is a thoroughly average third son of five. | |
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| Kafka on the Shore / int_851dda8f | type |
Humanoid Abomination | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_851dda8f | comment |
Humanoid Abomination: Johnnie Walker and later Colonel Sanders. Judging from the latter's dialogue, they seem to be sentient "archetypes" of some sort that represent cosmic forces. | |
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| Kafka on the Shore / int_859bbabc | type |
The Cassandra | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_859bbabc | comment |
The Cassandra: Played with; Nakata goes to the police after he kills Johnnie Walker, but of course his story is so ludicrous the police don't believe it. However, when he has to go on a journey to open "the entrance stone", Hoshino takes everything in stride and does everything he asks. | |
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| Kafka on the Shore / int_89204ffb | type |
Shrug of God | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_89204ffb | comment |
Shrug of God: Murakami specifically states in his blog that the interpretation of Saeki and Kafka being related, as well many other parts of the novel, are all up to the reader. | |
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| Kafka on the Shore / int_8ace85ef | type |
Audience Surrogate | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_8ace85ef | comment |
Audience Surrogate: Hoshino is a pretty normal guy, especially when compared to Kafka and Nakata. | |
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| Kafka on the Shore / int_8af7b342 | type |
Sibling Yin-Yang | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_8af7b342 | comment |
Sibling Yin-Yang: Oshima is charming, well-read, and physically weak. His older brother is an asocial surfer. Subverted when Kafka finally meets Oshima's brother. Oshima is really just as asocial, but Kafka is somehow able to tease conversation out of both brothers. | |
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| Kafka on the Shore / int_8c681acc | type |
Third-Person Person | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_8c681acc | comment |
Third-Person Person: Nakata always refers to himself in the third person. | |
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| Kafka on the Shore / int_8e20979 | type |
Wham Episode | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_8e20979 | comment |
Wham Episode: In chapter 38, Nakata and Hoshino finally find the place they're looking for. And where should it be but Komura Memorial Library? | |
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Kafka on the Shore / int_8e20979 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_8ed5c6e4 | type |
Asshole Victim | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_8ed5c6e4 | comment |
Asshole Victim: Nakata stabs Johnnie Walker to death...and we're cheering him on the whole way, since Johnnie Walker horrifically mutilates and kills cats which are paralyzed but feel the pain. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_8ed5c6e4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_8ed5c6e4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_8ed5c6e4 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_911db50a | type |
Bequeathed Power | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_911db50a | comment |
Bequeathed Power: After Nakata dies, it seems that Hoshino gains his ability to speak to cats. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_911db50a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_911db50a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_911db50a | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_92d7976 | type |
You Keep Using That Word | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_92d7976 | comment |
You Keep Using That Word: Oshima corrects the Straw Feminists on their use of "gender". | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_92d7976 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_92d7976 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_92d7976 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_966f0c70 | type |
Enchanted Forest | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_966f0c70 | comment |
Enchanted Forest: There's something eerily magical about the forest surrounding Oshima's cabin. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_966f0c70 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_966f0c70 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_966f0c70 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_970c790a | type |
Big Bad | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_970c790a | comment |
Big Bad: While unexpected due to the somewhat dreamlike flow of the story, on a second reading one can see that the person pulling the strings from the start is Johnnie Walker, who may be Kafka's father. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_970c790a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_970c790a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_970c790a | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_9bd92eef | type |
Astral Projection | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_9bd92eef | comment |
Astral Projection: Ever since a strange event during World War II, people from Kafka's and Nakata's town have been known to do this randomly. It’s never truly voluntary and they often don't remember that they even left. Some are worse afflicted than others. Also a Discussed by Oshima and Kafka when Kafka realizes that the ghost girl is probably the still-alive Miss Saeki. Oshima brings up several examples of the phenomenon from Japanese classics. The conversation also opens Kafka to the possibility that he killed his father via astral projection. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_9bd92eef | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_9bd92eef | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_9bd92eef | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_9bee1a7f | type |
Eldritch Location | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_9bee1a7f | comment |
Eldritch Location: The forest outside Oshima's cabin, which leads to a strange neighborhood which lies outside the normal flow of time and is guarded by the ghosts of two Imperial Japanese soldiers who went MIA. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_9bee1a7f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_9bee1a7f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_9bee1a7f | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_9dd2af4a | type |
Inspirationally Disadvantaged | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_9dd2af4a | comment |
Inspirationally Disadvantaged: Nakata borders on this trope, being a kind, gentle, mentally handicapped old man with the ability to talk to cats, but his characterization is deep enough that he doesn't come across as a cliche. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_9dd2af4a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_9dd2af4a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_9dd2af4a | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_9e447c8c | type |
Suspiciously Apropos Music | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_9e447c8c | comment |
Suspiciously Apropos Music: Kafka finds "Kafka on the Shore"'s lyrics to be oddly prescient. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_9e447c8c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_9e447c8c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_9e447c8c | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_9f2ca67b | type |
Gaydar | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_9f2ca67b | comment |
Gaydar: Hoshino quickly (and correctly) pegs Oshima as a homosexual. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_9f2ca67b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_9f2ca67b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_9f2ca67b | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_a0db7803 | type |
It's Personal | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_a0db7803 | comment |
It's Personal: Initially Nakata is unable to stop Johnnie Walker as he begins horrifically killing cats right in front of him, but when he pulls out Mimi, a clever Siamese who helped Nakata earlier, he finally snaps out of his terror and attacks. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_a0db7803 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_a0db7803 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_a0db7803 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_a2b38d3b | type |
Eye Scream | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_a2b38d3b | comment |
Eye Scream: The boy named Crow delivers a pretty nasty one to Johnnie Walker, who is unfazed and amused by it. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_a2b38d3b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_a2b38d3b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_a2b38d3b | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_ac36578e | type |
Or Was It a Dream? | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_ac36578e | comment |
Or Was It a Dream?: It's ambiguous as to whether or not Kafka actually raped Sakura. Given the way she behaves towards Kafka when he calls her the end of the book, it doesn't seem likely. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_ac36578e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_ac36578e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_ac36578e | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_acecb17d | type |
Chekhov's Skill | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_acecb17d | comment |
Chekhov's Skill: A subversion. Kafka mentions to have trained in Judo as part of his quest for toughness, but he never gets in a fight or uses it. At least on page, if we interpret that the blood on his shirt means he did get in a fight somehow... | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_acecb17d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_acecb17d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_acecb17d | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_ad641426 | type |
Trademark Favorite Food | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_ad641426 | comment |
Trademark Favorite Food: Nakata brings up eel at every opportunity. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_ad641426 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_ad641426 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_ad641426 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_ae3d6438 | type |
Deadpan Snarker | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Colonel Sanders has little patience for Hoshino's questioning. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_ae3d6438 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_ae3d6438 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_ae3d6438 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_b0bce7aa | type |
Selective Obliviousness | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_b0bce7aa | comment |
Selective Obliviousness: Saeki's lover was killed by student revolutionaries who mistook him for a university official and refused to listen otherwise. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_b0bce7aa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_b0bce7aa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_b0bce7aa | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_b11ac9f5 | type |
Abusive Parents | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_b11ac9f5 | comment |
Abusive Parents: Kafka's father was emotionally distant and abusive. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_b11ac9f5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_b11ac9f5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_b11ac9f5 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_b731fa6e | type |
I Cannot Self-Terminate | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_b731fa6e | comment |
He is bound to complete the flute and cannot get out of it through suicide. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_b731fa6e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_b731fa6e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_b731fa6e | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_bd0230fb | type |
Ambiguously Bi | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_bd0230fb | comment |
Ambiguously Bi: Kafka is attracted to women, but there's a great deal of subtext surrounding his friendship with Oshima, who is openly gay. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_bd0230fb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_bd0230fb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_bd0230fb | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_bef696dd | type |
Mind Screw | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_bef696dd | comment |
Mind Screw: Dives headlong into this with Johnnie Walker's introduction. He's collecting the souls of cats to craft from them a human soul-stealing flute, which will escalate from there into a flute "big enough to rival the universe". He goads Nakata into killing him, after which Nakata passes out. Nakata wakes up back in the vacant lot conspicuously not splattered with blood and apparently having lost the ability to talk to cats. As he tries to turn himself in, he successfully predicts that it will rain fish. And when they finally find a body, it's nude and belongs to Kafka's father. With the exception of the first time, whenever Kafka has sex with Miss Saeki, the narration switches to second-person, with inconsistent use of the boldface type that comes in whenever Kafka is normally talking to himself/the boy named Crow (who is Kafka's alter-ego; note also that the name "Kafka" itself means "crow"). The effect is rather confusing. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_bef696dd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_bef696dd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_bef696dd | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_c24fa49e | type |
Dogs Are Dumb | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_c24fa49e | comment |
Dogs Are Dumb: "Cats know everything" says one cat, "unlike dogs." | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_c24fa49e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_c24fa49e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_c24fa49e | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_c3a1e89b | type |
Cats Are Magic | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_c3a1e89b | comment |
Cats Are Magic: They can talk, though only Nakata and later Hoshino can understand them, and they're somehow integral to Johnnie Walker's plans. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_c3a1e89b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_c3a1e89b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_c3a1e89b | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_c5249b29 | type |
Nice Guy | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_c5249b29 | comment |
Nice Guy: Nakata is unfailingly polite and good-natured. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_c5249b29 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_c5249b29 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_c5249b29 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: Oshima quotes Macbeth and Electra and makes references to several other pieces of literature. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_c75df49a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_c75df49a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_c75df49a | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_c928d01d | type |
Magic Music | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_c928d01d | comment |
Magic Music: Presumably the case with Johnnie Walker's flute. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_c928d01d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_c928d01d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_c928d01d | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_ca7ec334 | type |
Two Lines, No Waiting | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_ca7ec334 | comment |
Two Lines, No Waiting: It switches back and forth between Kafka and Nakata's stories, with occasional digressions for other characters like Oshima and Hoshino. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_ca7ec334 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_ca7ec334 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_ca7ec334 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_d0bf8a6d | type |
No Periods, Period | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_d0bf8a6d | comment |
No Periods, Period: Averted for drama, rather than comedy. As a child, Nakata sees his teacher cleaning up her period while the class is out on a field trip, causing the embarrassed and angered teacher to hit him. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_d0bf8a6d | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_d0bf8a6d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_d0bf8a6d | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_d0c13631 | type |
Mrs. Robinson | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_d0c13631 | comment |
Mrs. Robinson: Miss Saeki sleeps with Kafka. She might also be his mother. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_d0c13631 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_d0c13631 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_d0c13631 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_db71d717 | type |
Thanatos Gambit | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_db71d717 | comment |
Thanatos Gambit: This is implied to have been Johnnie Walker's plan - get killed by Nakata to hitchhike a ride with him so he could get to the entrance stone. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_db71d717 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_db71d717 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_db71d717 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_e0fa0b00 | type |
Classical Music Is Cool | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_e0fa0b00 | comment |
Classical Music Is Cool: Hoshino is exposed to classical music during his journey with Nakata, and develops an appreciation for it, realizing that it's not the stuffy, boring sort of music he thought it was. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_e0fa0b00 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_e0fa0b00 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_e0fa0b00 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_e2c4b927 | type |
Dub Name Change | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_e2c4b927 | comment |
Dub Name Change: The Spanish translation of the book switched Johnnie Walker for Johnnie Walken, as in Christopher Walken. Reasons are unknown, although copyright issues come to the mind. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_e2c4b927 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_e2c4b927 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_e2c4b927 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_e303d198 | type |
Whole-Plot Reference | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_e303d198 | comment |
Whole-Plot Reference: Kafka's story is one to Oedipus Rex, which gets pointed out in-universe. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_e303d198 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_e303d198 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_e303d198 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_e3b0cd87 | type |
Morality Pet | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_e3b0cd87 | comment |
Morality Pet: Nakata is this to pretty much everyone he meets in-story, as he's a kindly, illiterate old man who is a little senile, which leads people to pity him and give him extra food or a ride somewhere. Hoshino even states Nakata makes him think of his grandfather. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_e3b0cd87 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_e3b0cd87 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_e3b0cd87 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_e542d889 | type |
Gorn | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_e542d889 | comment |
Gorn: Not often, but there are a couple of extremely visceral scenes, mostly involving Johnnie Walker. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_e542d889 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_e542d889 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_e542d889 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_e63f5f28 | type |
Faux Symbolism | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_e63f5f28 | comment |
Faux Symbolism: Kafka's in-universe reaction to the lyrics of "Kafka on the Shore", not that he considers it a bad thing. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_e63f5f28 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_e63f5f28 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_e63f5f28 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_e6b5d22f | type |
Catchphrase | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_e6b5d22f | comment |
Catchphrase: Nakata, with "[food item] are one of Nakata's favorites." | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_e6b5d22f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_e6b5d22f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_e6b5d22f | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_e83f211c | type |
O.O.C. Is Serious Business | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_e83f211c | comment |
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: While awake, Kafka is a troubled but fundamentally good person. Its therefore clear that unlike when he apparently killed his father (whom he might have actually hated enough to kill), when he entered Sakura's dream to rape her, the prophecy was obviously manipulating him through his subconscious. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_e83f211c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_e83f211c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_e83f211c | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_e8e56799 | type |
Blue-and-Orange Morality | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_e8e56799 | comment |
Blue-and-Orange Morality: Colonel Sanders claims to not know what "right" or "wrong" are and only cares about keeping the timeline/universe in order. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_e8e56799 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_e8e56799 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_e8e56799 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_eb2195d9 | type |
Rousseau Was Right | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_eb2195d9 | comment |
Rousseau Was Right: Nakata ends up being helped along on his journey by complete strangers who help him out of the kindness of their heart, most notably Hoshino. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_eb2195d9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_eb2195d9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_eb2195d9 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_ec6cb544 | type |
EveryMan | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_ec6cb544 | comment |
Everyman: Hoshino is a thoroughly average young man, in contrast to the more fantastic other characters. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_ec6cb544 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_ec6cb544 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_ec6cb544 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_edfacbac | type |
Covert Pervert | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_edfacbac | comment |
Covert Pervert: Kafka is generally a formal boy, but he thinks on sex as much as as expected of someone his age. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_edfacbac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_edfacbac | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_edfacbac | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_eef90616 | type |
Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_eef90616 | comment |
Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: When Nakata is describing Johnnie Walker, he makes some general observations about his clothes before adding that Johnnie Walker is collecting cats so he can steal their souls. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_eef90616 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_eef90616 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_eef90616 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_f1356f5e | type |
Speaks Fluent Animal | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_f1356f5e | comment |
Speaks Fluent Animal: Nakata uses his ability to find people's lost pets. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_f1356f5e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_f1356f5e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_f1356f5e | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_f604f64b | type |
Dude, She's Like in a Coma | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_f604f64b | comment |
Dude, She's Like in a Coma: Near the end of the book, Kafka initiates sex with a sleeping Sakura in a mutual dream. She wakes up during and informs him that even if they're dreaming, this is definitely rape. Kafka continues anyway. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_f604f64b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_f604f64b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | hasFeature |
Kafka on the Shore / int_f604f64b | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_f9741356 | type |
Kindhearted Cat Lover | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_f9741356 | comment |
Kind Hearted Cat Lover: Nakata loves cats, especially since he's able to talk to them, and he makes extra money by looking for lost cats around the neighborhood. He's so kindhearted that the only thing that can move him to violence is the sight of Johnnie Walker gutting a helpless, sedated cat. | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_f9741356 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Kafka on the Shore / int_f9741356 | featureConfidence |
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Blood-Splattered Innocents: A few days after running away, Kafka blacks out for about four hours and wakes up with his shirt stained with someone else's blood. Despite apparently no one being around for him to have attacked, Kafka comes to fear that he may have killed his father via Astral Projection. | |
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