Midnighters in Japan

Posted on by scott

About a year ago, I blogged about the wonderful Japanese cover of the first Midnighters book. Well, the other two in the series are available now, and are equally lovely.

Let’s take a look at all three:

What I love about these interpretations is how they’re simultaneously literal and surreal. All three use scenes directly from the book, but they also have a trippiness about them: the close up on the raindrops, the huge moon, the distended human figures.

Also, I like how the key settings—suburban, urban, and wild—show up across the covers. Location is everything in Midnighters, where the differences between city and wild are even more extreme than those in Uglies. So it’s nice to see those geographies reflected here.

And best of all are the odd touches of a different culture, like the water tower on the book 2 cover. Maybe it’s just me, but that tower seems more Okinawan than Oklahoman.

Altogether satisfying.

1,283 thoughts on “Midnighters in Japan”

  1. Oh. All my friends are as insane as me in their own way. Let’s just say this:”Lifesized Legilus Cutout”. Not even kidding. They got it off Ebay.

  2. THAT IS SO COOL my family is as crazy as me
    we owned a small house with our house now(used to live in it but moved) well in the garage there was a cut out of a nafta raccar driver so I put it in a room right infront of the door and scared my sister, then we put it in the bathroom to scare people at a party she was having there

  23. I’m the girl who doesn’t find anything creepy. You know, except people who are so seriously RTS that they don’t even realise it. So, I guess I creeped myself out.

  30. i know…something about it’s freakiness that i feel like watching it again…like several people i know…however freaky or hyper chipmunk-like they are, i still end up laughing my head off instead of bolting in the other direction.

  37. it doesn’t bother me, weirdly.
    actually, this one guy i know has talked in that voice before…
    “i like to hop up and down like a mute kangaroo child…”
    i silenced him with a five minute long smile.
    i love doing that.

  44. yeah, i just smile at them and lock my face in that position until they get an odd look on their face and back away slowly.
    it kinda hurts…but worth it.

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