くまクマ熊ベアー 4

The series hits an easy groove

In terms of both the actual book and my reading ability, this was probably my favorite of the series so far. I think the writer's skill at plotting has smoothed out at this point, we have less diversions and the parts that do show thing from other perspectives largely show information we wouldn't know rather than just recapping things. The arc about Yuna opening a bakery is very satisfying from both a story and character perspective, and I loved the political intrigues in the fishing town which capped off with one of the best fight scenes yet.

As far as language learning value, this one felt the easiest of the series, possibly because I'm getting used to the series and possibly because there were fewer new concepts introduced in this one, but either way this was the smoothest reading experience I've had in Japanese so far and that has me really excited to continue on to volume 5.