Monogatary.com (stylized in all lowercase) is a social networking service website, owned by Japanese entertainment conglomerate Sony Music Entertainment Japan. Taking its name from , the website focuses on creative writing and illustration, where users can submit works based on a daily-updated theme. Furthermore, it also incorporates social network service features. The works submitted on Monogatary.com have been adapted into various forms, such as books, audio-books, anime series, films, games, or songs, etc.
Yohei Yashiro launched the website on October 30, 2017. In 2014, Sony Music Marketing (now Sony Music Solutions), a subsidiary of SMEJ, proposed creating a creative writing submission website. Despite internal positive reception, the idea did not align with the company's primary focus on music marketing. A year later, as the SMEJ business program EnterLab launched, SMM's then-supervisor suggested Yohei Yashiro, who had previously helped on the unsuccessful project, to resume the creative writing submission website. Since 2018, the website has hosted an annual fiction contest, Monocon, divided into various categories and awards.
Monogatary.com is best known for its fictional stories that have become sources for songs performed by duo Yoasobi. Notable works include "Yoru ni Kakeru", based on the Monocon 2019's Sony Music Award winner, Mayo Hoshino's Thanatos no Yūwaku, which was a massive commercial success amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan in 2020 and established their musical career. The duo and the website later held another contest, the Yoasobi Contest, for three times. Other musical collaborations include Halca, Omoinotake, Kana Nishino, Adieu, Hitsujibungaku, Tatsuya Kitani, Yama, etc.
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