Koji Suzuki

Ring is a Japanese mystery thriller novel by Koji Suzuki, first published in 1991, and set in modern-day Japan. It was the basis for a 1995 television film,a television series, a film of the same name, and two remakes of the 1998 film: a South Korean version and an American version.

Loop is the third in the series of Ring novels by Koji Suzuki. The story revolves around a simulated reality, exactly the same as our own, known as the Loop: created to simulate the emergence and evolution of life. In this alternate universe that the events of the previous novels, Ring and Spiral took place.