Paprika
Yasutaka Tsutsui
 Dream monitoring and intervention as a means of treating mental disorders is a developing new form of psychotherapy in the near future. Nobel Prize-winning psychiatry research establishment employee is the most prominent scientist in this field, using her alter-ego to infiltrate the dreams of others and treat their illnesses. Her colleague, the brilliant but obese has created a super-miniaturized version of the Institute's existing dream-analysis devices calling it the . Unrest ensues when the new psychotherapy device is stolen, allowing the assailant to enter the mind of anyone and enact mind control. The frantic search for the criminal and the DC Mini has begun.