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Like reading an anime
Entertainment
Despite this not being an anime light novel but a children's book, reading it felt like watching a low stakes shoujo slice of life anime. Not the romance ones, but the school life ones (like Yura Yura, Kamichu, etc). Mostly due to common tropes, such as a handsome god-like guy, a tsundere-like school girl that calls the main character by her full name all the time despite becoming friends (東堂ひびき this 東堂ひびき that), etc.
Honestly I thought this wouldn't be for me, just from looking at the cover, but with the Japanese folklore part, it turned out to be interesting enough that reading it wasn't a drag.
Language learning
There aren't many descriptions of the scenes and places, the text is mostly conversations and the main character's inner thoughts on what's happening. Everything has furigana, the grammar isn't that advanced, and for me it was a good mix of new vocabulary while also being able to read a whole page without searching anything. I think most of the vocabulary I had to look up were onomatopeia, and on that note there is A LOT. If you want to up your onomatopeia game, this is a good book for it.