SQUID GAME MEETS MEAN GIRLSTHE #1 JAPANESE BESTSELLER ABOUT KEEPING UP AND STAYING (BARELY) ALIVE IN A GIRL-EAT-GIRL TOKYONOW WITH 150,000 COPIES SOLDThe very kawaii and very unhinged survival drama you never knew you needed...Mishin Mizushima isn't nearly kawaii enough by Tokyo standards. Not even her developmentally stunted mum (who works at a brothel) is a fan, ditching her in their micro-apartment with a note scribbled on My Little Pony stationery.Her case is one of millions in the megacity's cutthroat girls' schools, where towering alpha females move and think as a single, terrifyingly beautiful organism with a double-eyelid surgery straight out of Popteen. The betas blend into the furniture. The rest grovel for scraps at the bottom of the sparkly food chain.In one classroom, a battle erupts between the dolls when a substitute teacher flaunts the natural order by asking each girl to pair up with someone new. In the words of Hello Kitty, "you can never have too many friends" - and everyone knows the best way to make friends is to play a game...A fable for the era of live streaming, Squid Game meets Mean Girls in this very kawaii and very unhinged survival drama where every girl must play by three keep up, be liked, and stay (barely) alive in a girl-eat-girl Tokyo.