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The difficulty of this book is interesting. There's words I hadn't encountered before due to not being into idols and not really that tuned into the Japanese internet / pop culture, but honestly there aren't that many of them - they just are often a crucial word to understand the sentence.
The larger difficulty is with the writing style which darts around in time, place, topic, and speaker. It's always narrated by Akari, but sometimes you have to pause for a second to determine if she's quoting herself in a conversation or someone else. Time and place are sometimes determined only by sentences that are dropped midway through the scene you're reading.
The story has no chapters, no plot, no arch but is is interesting.
I found this book depressing to read, honestly. I thought the writing style was brilliant, but I ached for Akari and I found her Oshi's life to be sad as well, even filtered through her adoring lens.