[DeepL Translation - needs review] Winner of the 130th Akutagawa Award. Ninagawa and Hatsu, who have just entered high school, are the outsiders in their class. Hatsu soon becomes concerned about Ninagawa's infatuation with a certain idol. ......Snarky friendship or timid love? Or timid love? The long-awaited first work to win the Bungei Prize, depicting a lonely relationship between two clumsy people.
An account of a high school girl who is having trouble fitting in landing in something of a friendship with an idol obsessed boy in her class.
Felt somewhat Catcher in the Rye-ish to me, definitely a character study without a firm plot. I can enjoy these types of books, but I think the age of the protagonists and the (realistically) low level of introspection just didn't quite do it for me.
Language learning wise, the prose felt a bit more slippery, for lack of a better word, to fit the L31 I
An account of a high school girl who is having trouble fitting in landing in something of a friendship with an idol obsessed boy in her class.
Felt somewhat Catcher in the Rye-ish to me, definitely a character study without a firm plot. I can enjoy these types of books, but I think the age of the protagonists and the (realistically) low level of introspection just didn't quite do it for me.
Language learning wise, the prose felt a bit more slippery, for lack of a better word, to fit the L31 I