March 21, 2022

Basic plot: Chatty college student with keen insights into human nature winds up in unusual criminal situations.

This is rather like さんかく窓の外側は夜 in being difficult to judge because while every single kanji has furigana (making me want to rate it easier), the grammar and ways of speaking require full understanding of N3 and probably a smidge of N2? The vocabulary isn't ridiculously extensive, but it did include a handful of words I haven't personally (at 30+ books) encountered in writing before, so I wouldn't consider it narrow by any means. It's also not helped along as much by being a manga as some of the longer dialogues have topics not illustrated and you only see the faces of the characters talking.

I also watched the live action show before reading the manga, which may contribute to a feeling of easiness.

There are some kanji which are incorrectly furigana'd for effect. As an example, 刑事 (read: けいじ) had でか (slang for detective) beside it. This is uncommon enough I don't think it'd be a blocker, but it is a tally in the "not for beginners" column.

Finally, I think this is common for manga (not sure, mostly read books) but several times words commonly written in kanji would be in katakana, again for effect. 普通 being written as フツー was one I saw a few times.

Unrelated to difficulty but as a comparison to the TV show, I felt like in the TV show "翔" and 整 had a boyish friendship, but in the manga there were definite BL vibes. Again reminds me of さんかく窓. Maybe I'm just dense when watching live action. 🤷‍♀️

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on March 16, 2024
similar in difficulty toめめんと森L31
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on August 14, 2023
easier thanウツボラ 1L33
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on August 6, 2023
harder than幽麗塔 1L29
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on September 16, 2022
similar in difficulty to十角館の殺人 1L30
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on March 21, 2022
similar in difficulty toさんかく窓の外側は夜 1L28
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on March 21, 2022
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on March 21, 2022
easier thanよるのばけものL28
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on March 21, 2022
similar in difficulty to君の名はL28
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on March 21, 2022
similar in difficulty to空中ブランコL30
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on March 21, 2022
similar in difficulty toおしい刑事L30