Böcker av Sheridan Tatsuno

Kabuki Bank faces financial collapse when its office tower in downtown San Francisco remains empty during remote work. The owner wants to sell it and return to Osaka, but their daughter Ayako loses her leg in an accident. Begging to stay in the City, she asks Brad Morioka to print a 3D leg with a tattoo design, which attracts other 3D printer ventures and turns SF into the Tattoo capital. All goes well attracting young Goth and cosplay fashion designers, robot startups, J-Pop musicians and others open pop-up shops in the Kabuki Bank offices, but disaster strikes when cyber crooks attack in the new Barbary Coast. Enjoy the cops-and-robber "Kabuki politics" showdown to save the fledgling businesses downtown.

An immigrant Kyoto fashion designer faces off with San Francisco's mayor over possible eviction of her "Kimono Minds" shop from Japantown by the City, which is pressured by major Asian corporations aiming to rebuild Japantown as a luxury resort. Believing that one "builds the future on the past" like Kyoto, she rallies her "seven samurai" designers who protest in gorgeous kimonos before the media. Inspired by Tanizaki's "Makioka Sisters, "Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," and Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai," this comedy family novel explores the challenges of saving a kimono shop and marrying off three daughters who rebel against tradition with their desire to build their own Goth, Cosplay and VR fashion businesses. Join the thrills and tears of reinventing SF's Japantown and regenerative fashion industry for future generations!