May 4, 2025
Another in a long line of odd girls meets regular joe hero highschool romcoms, Jirai-kei comes in at a resounding 'it's fine'. There's some fun to be had with the ways in which our heroine constantly unintentionally makes herself look like a scary badass, but it's somewhat of a beginner work that isn't strong as, say, Komi-san or The Dangers in My Heart. The vocab is also a bit odd - it's mostly relatively easy but occasionally dips into strange phraseology and word choices for otherwise regular words, though there's not much in the way of complicated sentences, making it a mostly breezy read.