Name: Towa o tabisuru mono
ISBN: 9784062143707

Kiyoshi Shigematsu

Stories about Kamui, the hero who lives an eternal life, and his dreams of the people he has met in the past thousand years.

rosuto odessei sennen no yume

Towa o tabisuru mono

Gavin

The clunky videogame 'Lost Odyssey' contains 33 incredibly good short stories, which you just optionally bump into in the course of your standard 50-hour murder-looting spree. They are understated, sentimental, and literary where the main plot is cliched, badly written (translated?) and garish. 

I don't know whether reading them alone would have the same effect as this contrast, but they are free in English here.

Towa o tabisuru mono rosuto odessei sennen no yume