The light novel "Joppare Aomori no Hoshi", the main character who speaks Tsugaru dialect, is currently attracting attention online.

A fantasy novel set in a different world, the same work in which the main character from Aomori adventures. The work, which began serializing on the novel posting site "Let's become a novelist" for about a month from June last year, was discontinued due to sluggish popularity, says the author, Kizen Sasaki.

Mr. Sasaki is a part-time farmer living in Iwate, and says that he has only been posting his work for a year. Since he grows apples, he named the main character "Olin Jonagold" and the name of the apple variety. "I later learned that I was wearing the name of Hirosaki's idol" Ringomusume, "" says Sasaki.

It is said that "Joppare Aomori no Hoshi" was born from the setting that talented human resources are expelled from the organization. "It's a common story, but I set the reason why I was kicked out because it was too blunt. My father was a fan of Ikuzo Yoshi and my mother was a fan of Kappei Ina, so I've been familiar with Tsugaru dialect since I was little. I was there, "says Mr. Sasaki. "I'm having a hard time with the Tsugaru dialect I'm working on every time," he said.

The reason why the discontinued work became a hot topic was that on January 28, "I saw the title so fascinating for the first time in a while" (sic), and Twitter account "Takuyasu Hanishina" introduced the work. Because I did it. The title of "Joppare Aomori no Hoshi" is written in Tsugaru dialect, "Wa Sugenedea (I'm lonely)", "Shabenea (no chanting)", and "Mama Ke (eat rice)". "Wasao (dog)" and so on.

On the internet, there were reactions such as "I know what the locals are saying", "Almost foreign language www", and "The idea is too genius" (sic), and more than 45,000 retweets and more than 100,000 likes were received. Was done. There was a tweet from Aomori that read the title aloud, and there were voices such as "Is this kind of intonation?"

Mr. Sasaki said, "Because of the buzz, I got a reaction from a famous cartoonist and voice actor that I read it, and it became a day when I thought that I would be dead tomorrow. I decided to resume the serialization of Kabachika. "

It is said that the future of this work will be like going around the six fictitious Tohoku prefectures. Mr. Sasaki says, "This is a work that only exists in Aomori. I hope I can give back to Aomori in some way through the work."