In the boiling heat of summer a broken remote control for an air conditioner threatens life as we know it in this reality-bending time-slipping sequel to The Tatami Galaxy.During a scorching August in Kyoto our protagonist and his worst friend Ozu are locked in a glaring contest in a four-and-a-half-tatami-mat room. Ozu has spilled Coke on the air conditioner’s remote control—the only AC in Shimogamo Yusuisuiso their famously shabby sweatbox of an apartment building. Vengeful and despairing our