Hiroshi Mori: 22 books

As the duel with a senior pilot code-named the Teacher, whom I admire and respect, draws near, I am about to lose myself. My body is tense. When I breathe, my muscles tremble. Is it a tremor of excitement? I feel the temperature of the blood running through my body is slowly rising. What is this spiritual...

Everyone called him only by the codename. He was just that special. I had been admiring a genius pilot, known and feared as the Teacher, who had shot down numerous enemies already. As I had requested by submitting the application, I was assigned to the elite military flight team stationed in this...

As the ace pilot, I have shot down many enemies. But, during a dogfight, I got careless, was injured, and ended up being hospitalized. Although I want to get back to the sky as soon as possible, I am starting the painful days of being entangled with the muddy gravity. What I recall is my childhood...

“Every pilot admires you. Everyone wants to be a pilot like you ...” The Teacher is the aim for me, obviously. Because I want to be a pilot like him, I came to this airbase. As a pilot, I am approaching the one I admire, little by little. But, when the distance between us becomes zero, he suddenly...

I am still a child. At times, my right hand kills humans. Instead of that. I would probably let someone’s right hand kill me. "Kildren" (children who are capable of living eternally in adolescence) aviate their fighter aircrafts and shoot enemies down every day. In order to continue to...

Do we care or not about coming back to the same place again when taking off from the runway? I do not care about such a miracle. When flying above the clouds and viewing the stars in the heavens, I can forget about the things that lie in the future. I can exchange my whole life with leaving the ground,...

As I have become the ace pilot, I now carry the expectations from the top brass and gather the attention from the news media. Press conferences, photo sessions, lecturing in training sessions ... These are not what I want. I seem to desire to die in the sky. I have just realized that. All I have to...

Everyone puts his or her own life on the aircraft, and fly high into the sky. Because of that point of argument, I respect all the pilots, regardless of whether they are my friendlies or enemies. Some of the pilots, who may be able to become more and more skillful or still possess the potential for...