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(3.76/5)100% for a male audience...
- The MC is your typical self-insert plain character who, for some reason, attracts all the women and he is the only good guy in this world because he doesn't sleep with teens. The bar is not only low but it buried itself underground somewhere.
- The women are badly written and there is a lot of mentioning of chest areas and sizes. That poor colleague with her I-cups... my back hurts in sympathy.
- The relationship between MC and the teenager that he picks up is very uncomfortable at times but at least the author draws a line somewhere.
Overall, nothing really happens. A bit of character/relationship development, but I ended up listening to this on 2x and it still felt slow.
I will probably continue with the audiobooks because they are just extremely easy. Good for commutes.
This is a story about a 26 year old office worker taking in a homeless 16 year old runaway. The story basically centers around Yoshida trying to give Sayu something resembling a normal life, and the two of them adjusting to living with each other.
For those expecting the worst: the story is very adamant about "this is not romantic or sexual, don't even joke about that". To elaborate, there are multiple times that Sayu tries to seduce Yoshida (this is how she's gotten by previously, and thus she has some warped expectations). Yoshida firmly refuses and is appalled by the thought, to the point where he threatens to kick her out if she tries it again. I'm hoping future volumes maintain that.
There's a lot of wholesome moments, and a few very uncomfortable ones. In general, I think the female characters are poorly written - particularly Yoshida's coworkers (the romantic interests). I'm hoping that improves. Reading an LN narrated (primarily) by an adult was refreshing.
The audiobook is great, btw!
Update: having finished the series, the writing definitely improves over time (though the romance elements remain the weakest part, imo). Overall I really appreciated the series, despite its flaws, and it gave me lots of moments to pause and consider what I'd do, were I in the various characters' shoes, at those particular moments.
Entertainment: 26 year old office worker takes in a 16-17(?) year old female high school student.
I read this book only because jpdb pointed out my high vocabulary coverage and frankly, based on the description and this being Japanese I expected the worst. However I was pleasantly surprised. The story was fun and (for the most part) surprisingly wholesome and the writing in general is just right for the story to always stay entertaining. I was not planning it, but I think I'll continue with book 2 to find out where this is going. Definitely one of the better slice of life stories I have read so far.
Language Learning: Only normal everyday vocabulary that's pretty much all useful to learn and mostly easy sentences. Very uniform difficulty throughout the entire book with not one particularly difficult chapter. Maybe not easy enough for complete beginners but still a very good book for beginner readers.
A weird male fantasy so far, mostly dialogue
This is looking to be a weird male fantasy, pervy book so far. I did not expect this with the high ratings and readers on this website. My local library does not have this book.
It is mostly dialogue and then internal thoughts all taking place in one location so far so in that respect it I can see why this might rate highly from a language learning perspective. However, I am having to do a lot of dictionary lookups so this feels cumbersome for me to read right now but I will push through. I wonder if this should actually be rated at a higher difficulty than the current rating of 26 but I wouldn't be able to tell you just yet.
--- I read half of this and then passively listened to the full audiobook of volume 1. It is just bickering between the guy and 2 girls so the language is very accessible but the content is drivel. And even the voice reader for the audiobook is a bit annoying. I recommend if you need something at your language level and can't find anything else.