Shinigami Eyes by Adam Smith
Nee-chan - Big sister
Norowaretako - Cursed child
Obaa-chan (Baa-chan) - Grandmother
Ohairi kudasai - Please enter
Ojii-san - Grandfather
Okaeri - Welcome home
Okiro - Wake up!
Otaku - Someone who is obsessed with manga and anime
San - A formal honorific, similar to mr/mrs/miss
Sempai - Older student, upperclassman
Sensei - A formal honorific that one would address a teacher with
Shinigami - Death God
Shoryuken - a special attack from Street Fighter (Translated as Rising Dragon Punch)
Sumimasen - Excuse me
Tadaima - I’m home
Taiyaki - commonly in the shape of a fish, a pastry filled with fillings such as red bean paste, custard or chocolate
Tatami - A type of mat used as flooring material in traditional Japanese rooms
Toire - Toilet
Uotazu - The Japanese way to pronounce the surname Waters
Uwabaki - Japanese slippers worn in school buildings instead of ordinary shoes
Watashi - I, me
Watashi no namae wa - My name is...
Yoroshikune - Will you take care or me as I will take care of you? (informal)
Youkai - Japanese ghosts and monsters
Yukata - A Japanese dressing gown
Yûrei Yashiki - Ghost house
Zashiki Warashi - Literally ‘Other room child’. A house spirit that takes the form of a small child. They like to cause mischief and are a sign of good fortune for the house and family.
Acknowledgements
This book has spent a long time in development, especially with Adam ensuring that all the Japanese fine details were correct, and for that we owe our thanks to a lot of people for making this book a reality.
First off, we would like to thank the wonderful people at Tokyo Free Guide and our two tour guides, Asami Irie and Noriyuki Iwai, who gave up their time to give two foreigners a more authentic experience of Tokyo, as well as answer any of our pesky questions.
To all the friends Adam has made in his studies and in his travels throughout Japan. To Andi and Ariko and Yumi and to the countless others that have helped him along the way. And a big shout out to the WaEi Kaiwa Group for all their help and support and for double checking his dodgy Japanese for him. Thank you all.
To our awesome cover designer Silvia Paoletta and beta reader Francesca Poggi who still gave us great words of support about Rin’s story even though the story still needed lots of work. To Brent Taylor over at Teen Eyes Editorial for giving great suggestions to improve the story.
And finally a big cheer out to our parents for standing by us and giving us support, and to our sister, Kristy, for taking time out of her university assignments to help with promotion for Shinigami Eyes.
About The Authors
Cheree Smith lives in the coastal city of Newcastle in Australia where she is studying graphics design and photography. When she is not hard at study, she is busy writing paranormal, horror and dark stories for young adults. She enjoys listening to and learning about legends and myths, watching scary movies and dreaming up new worlds where monsters can come alive. When she is not in her writing cave she can be found listening to music, even dabbling in the occasional writing of music or reading.
Adam Smith has always loved the Japanese culture, which began with his love of anime and manga. This helped him accomplish his goal of moving to Japan to become an ALT (assistant language teacher) in Iwate, Japan. When he’s not reading, writing or speaking Japanese, he is working on paranormal, horror and dark stories for young adults with his sister, Cheree.
Other Books By Cheree Smith
No escape.
Those words haunt Scar’s dreams. She thinks the creature that terrorises her while asleep isn’t real, but when she’s abducted and taken to a reform school meant to contain creatures too dangerous to function in society, she starts to wonder whether she isn’t some monster.
She turns to an underground fight club full of vampires, werewolves and witches established by the students to control her urges, and who is she kidding, she loves to fight.
When fighters begin to disappear, turning Scar into the prime suspect, she must race to prove her innocence before her true nature is exposed.
The only problem is that she’s not entirely sure she’s innocent.
Adam Smith, Shinigami Eyes