Please Form Pairs

MEAN GIRLS MEETS SQUID GAME ARE YOU READY TO PLAY? THE #1 JAPANESE HIT ABOUT KEEPING UP AND STAYING (BARELY) ALIVE 1. Please form pairs 2. You cannot pair with someone twice 3. Anyone without a partner will be executed Mishin Mizushima isn't nearly cool enough by Japanese standards. Even her Mum has ditched Mishin for a new lover, leaving her alone in their tiny apartment. At school, towering alpha females move and think as a single, terrifyingly beautiful organism. The betas know to lay low. The rest grovel at the bottom of the cut-throat food chain. But one day, a new teacher questions the natural order with a simple instruction - and unleashes a gladiatorial catfight for survival. Already a hit in Japan, Please Form Pairs is a candy-coated death game where every doll must play by three rules: keep up, be liked, and stay (barely) alive in a girl-eat-girl world. LET THE GAMES BEGIN...

CHIREN KINA began writing in her student years and made her professional debut after winning the R-18 Literature Prize for Women by Women. Her novel Please Form Pairs has sold over 130,000 copies in print in Japan. TikTok | @chirenneko