- #1
Its nothing special but if your looking for a typical japanese novel thats basically what this novel is.This one has the typical timid MC which while it is annoying its not done enough so far in the book to make me drop it, hopefully the author will have the character develop some confidence soon but with how this story is written so far I don't really expect it. It uses the typical trope of childhood friend got something amazing while I got garbage but it turns out my garbage is the strongest which I'm getting tired of since its so overused and never seems to be executed well but it feels unfair to put my personal bias against the genre into my review. Right now I'm giving it 4 stars simply because if your looking for this type of book then its not a bad version of it, there are a lot of minor issues I have with it which is why I'm removing a star but at least for now I wouldn't say its bad enough to weren't 3 stars.So far character interactions feel a bit shallow, I can tell the author was aiming for the scenes with the mom supporting him to be heartfelt and sweet but I don't feel anything from them other than mind annoyance at the plot not moving along. The characters don't feel that constant, for example the childhood friend was suppose to be strong-willed and always dragging around but after the ritual she just gives up once he says "i'll catch up some day" and then apparently never comes to visit despite seeming to care about her village. I will give props to the author for not using the stereotype of where the childhood friend ends up hating them for xyz reason, its the one part of this overused shitty trope that they got rid of and honestly its nice to not have to know that soon your going to have the very poorly executed making up between the characters.
