The other day I was riding the train to the suburbs of Tokyo with a colleague to pick up some cuts for the show in production, and on the train I saw this (maybe junior high?) girl reading a book.
Now, I thought, what can make a kid read nowadays? I can rely on my own experiences in the matter even less that with other stuff, since when I was junior high age, my favorite book was (drums, please) Tolkien’s Silmarillion. Note that wouldn’t change until I discovered Neil Gaiman after I entered university.