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November 22, 2024
Characterization is a Mess.
With the basic excuse of "we grew up and apart off screen" + "some evil magic guy is possessing people", the characters fail to engage in meaningful communication and every attempt at doing such is shot in the foot. This book is watching everything get worse for 8 chapters in a really repetitive manner, and then speedrunning the conclusion and pretending there's no trauma from these events afterwards.
Narrative is first person from Hibiki, which also makes everything seem exponentially like he
September 9, 2024
Husband is kind of annoying
There is Furigana, so reading this isn't very hard. The husband speaks overly femininely, so you can compare and contrast that to his more neutral wife.
I picked this up because I thought it might have something interesting to say about gender, but it wasn't so. Haru basically likes dressing femininely, to the point that wearing suits feels like "cosplay" to him, but he also refers to himself solidly as a man and his sexuality basically boils down to "my wife", so there's no interrogation of th
August 20, 2024
Love Interest Is Kind of Annoying
Useful for getting more used to some alternate forms of casual speech, particularly in the way the boy character talks since he seems to use some Kansai speech. For instance, stem+なよ used as a positive command rather than a negative "don't". わ used instead of よ in some cases. The text is pretty sparse so it's a quick read.
The art is pretty. The story I don't grok with. The idea of “prince girl actually wants to be treated like a princess” is very status quo-sy, but could have been done all rig
"you know what would make people want to consume heartcatch precure. if it was a book"
This book didn't really need to exist. Only the first 2 chapters are anything new, and the other 3 are all summary of the anime, with random changes here and there in fight scenes or descriptions that don't account for anything.
The amount of new information this book gives could be covered in a 3 episode OVA at most. There was some stuff that was nice to have that was missing from the anime, but most of that was in the first 2 chapters and the only newer part after that was about Dune's backs