abstract:A cell phone novel, or mobile phone novel (Japanese: 携帯小説 keitai shousetsu; traditional Chinese: 手機小說 pinyin: shŏujī xiǎoshuō), is a literary work originally written on a cellular phone via text messaging. This type of literature originated in Japan, where it has become a popular literary genre.
Since it emerged in Japan nearly a decade ago, the cellphonenovel, or keitai shosetsu, has moved from a little-known subgenre to a mainstream literary phenomenon.
The 22-year-old who would rather be identified by his pen name than his real one (Yume-Hotaru means "Dreaming Firefly" in Japanese) started composing the novel on his cellphone in 2007.