History Literature / AfterTheQuake

** "super-frog saves tokyo": Frog seeks to save Tokyo from a coming earthquake, one worse than the one in Kobe. [[AllJustADream Hard to say how much of this happened, though...]]

* FourIsDeath: {{Downplayed}} example in "honey pie". At the end of Part I, Takatsuki muses on how he, Sayoko, Sala, and Junpei make a group of four. Part II begins with Sayoko learning about Takatsuki's infidelity with another woman, resulting in a divorce.

** "ufo in kushiro": Komura comes one step closer to realizing how disconnected he was from his emotions after the quake, which hadn't affected either him or his wife.

** "honey pie": Sala has nightmares about a man and a maw that will swallow her up. Likely a result of seeing the quake through the news.

* MarketBasedTitle: The collection is titled "all god's children can dance", after Yoshiya's story.
* OddballInTheSeries: "super-frog saves tokyo" is the only short story of the collection that has overtly supernatural and inexplicable elements.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: "all god's children can dance". Yoshiya went as far as patronizing a porn shop to avoid his mother discovering his erections when she slept in his bed with him.

The stories are "ufo in kushiro", "landscape with flatiron", "all god's children can dance", "thailand", "super frog saves tokyo", and "honey pie". All stories contain characters affected by the Kobe Earthquake in one way or another, and contain Murakami's trademark moments of the occasionally inexplicable.

!The short stories contains examples of:

** "super frog saves tokyo": Frog seeks to save Tokyo from a coming earthquake, one worse than the one in Kobe. [[AllJustADream Hard to say how much of this happened, though...]]

* MarketBasedTitle

The stories are "ufo in kushiro", "landscape with flatiron", "all god's children can dance", "thailand", "super frog saves tokyo", and "honey pie". All stories contain characters affected by the Kobe Earthquake in one way or another, and contain supernatural elements, just like Murakami's other stories.

* UsefulNotes/JapaneseChristian: "all god's children can dance". Yoshiyo, his mother and mentor.

* TwoGuysAndAGirl: "honey pie". Sayoko ended up marrying Takatsuki, and Junpei was the best man. [[spoiler: Takatsuki has a mistress and Sayoko is distressed when she finds out, because they have a child (Sala), as well. Takatsuki apologizes but says that he couldn't help it and encourages Junpei instead, since Sala likes him and he knows he always loved Sayoko, too. At the end, Junpei finally decides to propose to Sayoko.]]

* IntergenerationalFriendship: "landscape with flatiron". Junko, a girl who's a bit past highschool-age and Miyake, a man in his mid-forties.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: "all god's children can dance". Yoshiya went as far as patronizing a porn shop to avoid his mother discovering his erections when she slept in his bed with him.

''after the quake''[[note]]Note the lack of capitalization[[/note]] (Japanese: 神の子どもたちはみな踊る, ''kami no kodomo-tachi wa mina odoru''[[note]]all god's children can dance[[/note]]) is a 2000 collection of short stories that take place after the Kobe Earthquake of Japan in 1995, by author Creator/HarukiMurakami.

The stories are "ufo in kushiro", "landscape with flatiron", "all god's children can dance", "thailand", "super frog saves tokyo" and "honey pie". All stories contain characters affected by the Kobe Earthquake in one way or another, and contain supernatural elements, just like Murakami's other stories.

* IntergenerationalFriendship: "Landscape with flatiron". Junko, a girl who's a bit past highschool-age and Miyake, a man in his mid-forties.

* JapaneseChristian: "all god's children can dance". Yoshiyo, his mother and mentor.

* TwoGuysAndAGirl: "honey pie". Sayoko ended up marrying Takatsuki, and Junpei was the best man. [[spoiler: Takatsuki has a mistress and Sayoko is distressed when she finds out, because they have a child (Sala), as well. Takatsuki apologizes but says that he couldn't help it and encourages Junpei instead, since Sala likes him and he knows he always loved Sayoko, too. At the end, Junpei finally decides to propose to Sayoko.]]

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The English title ''after the quake'' is a series of short stories that take place after the Kobe Earthquake of 1995.

''after the quake''[[note]]Note the lack of capitalization[[/note]] (Japanese: 神の子どもたちはみな踊る, ''kami no kodomo-tachi wa mina odoru''[[note]]all god's children can dance[[/note]]) is a 2000 collection of short stories that take place after the Kobe Earthquake of Japan in 1995, by author HarukiMurakami.

* HotMom: Yoshiya's mother in "all god's children can dance".

''after the quake''[[hottip:*: Note the lack of capitalization]] (Japanese: 神の子どもたちはみな踊る, ''kami no kodomo-tachi wa mina odoru''[[hottip:*:all god's children can dance]]) is a 2000 collection of short stories that take place after the Kobe Earthquake of Japan in 1995, by author HarukiMurakami.

!!!The short stories contains examples of

* ADateWithRosiePalms: ''All god's children can dance''. Yoshiya went as far as patronizing a porn shop to avoid his mother discovering his erections when she slept in his bed with him.

* AuthorAppeal: Jazz music, especially in ''thailand''. Satsuki's father used to play his records and force her to listen to them, giving her candy if she got the performers right.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The English title ''after the quake'' is a series of short stories that take place ''after the quake'', the quake being the Kobe Earthquake of 1995.
* FollowThatCar: ''All god's children can dance''. Yoshiya tells a taxi driver to tail the car that the man he thinks is his father is in. He lies about being in a company that wants him, and that companies really do scramble over people like that.
* HotMom: Yoshiya's mother in ''all god's children can dance''.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: ''Landscape with flatiron''. Junko, a girl who's a bit past highschool-age and Miyake, a man in his mid-forties.
* JapaneseChristian: ''All god's children can dance''. Yoshiyo, his mother and mentor.

* TheRunaway: ''landscape with flatiron''. Junko ran away from home in her third year of highschool.
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: ''Honey pie''. Sayoko ended up marrying Takatsuki, and Junpei was the best man. [[spoiler: Takatsuki has a mistress and Sayoko is distressed when she finds out, because they have a child(Sala), as well. Takatsuki apologizes but says that he couldn't help it and encourages Junpei instead, since Sala likes him and he knows he always loved Sayoko, too. At the end, Junpei finally decides to propose to Sayoko.]]

''after the quake''[[hottip:*: Note the lack of capitalization]] (神の子どもたちはみな踊る, ''kami no kodomo-tachi wa mina odoru''[[hottip:*:all god's children can dance]]) is a 2000 collection of short stories that take place after the Kobe Earthquake of Japan in 1995, by author HarukiMurakami.

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: ''after the quake'' is a series of short stories that take place ''after the quake''. The quake being the Kobe Earthquake of 1995. TheOtherWiki says that the original title was "the children of the gods all dance", though.

''after the quake'' [[hottip:*: Note the lack of capitalization]] is a 2000 collection of short stories that take place after the Kobe Earthquake of Japan in 1995, by author HarukiMurakami.

The stories are ''ufo in kushiro'', ''landscape with flatiron'', ''all god's children can dance'', ''thailand'', ''super frog saves tokyo'' and ''honey pie''. All stories contain characters affected by the Kobe Earthquake in one way or another, and contain supernatural elements, just like Murakami's other stories.

''after the quake'' [[hottip:*: Note the lack of capitalization]] is a collection of short stories that take place after the Kobe Earthquake of Japan in 1995, by author HarukiMurakami.