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As a note, I listened to the audiobook, I do not own the text.
This is a series of essays written by an entertainer about his impulsive marriage to a woman (also an entertainer) who was too fat by Japanese beauty standards.
Some of the essays were cute and it's clear he cares for his wife, but overall the jokes didn't do much for me. To enjoy this book you need to really, really love toilet humor and fat jokes. I personally found the jokes outside those topics more amusing, and they were what got me through the book.
I suspect reading these as one-offs from time to time (If I remember correctly these were originally serialized comedy columns?) would be much more enjoyable than consuming it in large chunks as I did.
Language wise I listened to this over a long period of time so I'm a bit hazy on specific difficulties, but I do recall a little bit of slang and a bit of 'it would help to know more about Japanese pop culture' but nothing that was a major blocker. Most of the vocab seemed pretty every day. There is a decent amount of casual speech in quoted dialogue.