ボッコちゃん

A mix of easy and hard, all enjoyable stories

I really liked most of the short-short stories of 星新一, this was my first read of this kind. Liking the stories helped with plowing through the difficult ones.

While most of the stories language level is not hard and you should be ok with N3-N2 level and good kanji knowledge, some stories are difficult to grasp. I don't believe the difficulty comes from the language level per se but from the writing style. It is a very elliptical, minimal style and this does not sit well, if you are not comfortable with the language, it can create a lot of ambiguity.

For the second half I was able to move faster and understand easily what is happening, not sure if this resulted from the stories getting esasier or with me getting used to the nuances of the writing style.