The book's method of narration, however, has been drastically altered. Except for "Long Ago There Was a Putao Tailang," all of the stories use unusual forms of first-person narration.
但是，這本小說在「敘述方式」上卻有很大的改變，除了「從前從前有個浦島太郎」之外，其餘五篇全部採取第一人稱敘述，而且是非常特殊的第一人稱敘述。