- #1
I wouldn't bother reading this if you don't really like children and enjoy half-doormat protagonists that are led by the nose, become increasingly juvenile and find the idea of a dude in a little girl's body somehow starting to like candy uncontrollably or acting like a kid only to be ashamed of it to be hilarious. I also would deter anyone who wants anything close to horror, even if only as a part of the story.To me, this novel's presentation is incredibly misleading. It comes across as something like my house of horrors, trying to combine comedy and horror with a protagonist that is often misunderstood as a dangerous lunatic due to their actions, the first few chapters further mislead you into thinking that this might be the case. But very quickly, it becomes apparent that this story is far from comparable and is extremely different.Turns out it was just a several or so chapters before she dropped the act and became a meek girl and everyone started playing house while she's treated like some sort of protector and beloved by all, giving in to all demands for s*upid reasons such as candy or liking the kids. The protagonist is goodhearted by their very nature and also developmentally stunted (mentally, by that I mean they're immature and never really grew up). She gradually becomes an object to be teased and is overprotective of the children while acting pathetic at every opportunity.Other than that, details are very vague overall, but not in a mystery sense, more like the author never thought much about it. Monster fights are very shallow, there's no immersion. You need a certain sense of humor to appreciate this and if you don't really like children, you will certainly not like it. It reads like a cheap improvised work with one thing after another just thrown in after being been found in a search engine. If I had to guess, the author is either young and this is their first attempt at a novel or they're older and simply a bit untalented and still probably has never written anything before.There are a lot of interesting and good ideas, but they're not developed properly. It's pretty sad when an author just throws in one idea after another but follows up on nothing.The translation is pretty bad too, maybe the original is part of the reason. I'm not trying to be rude, I respect the work the translator put in, because it's clearly a lot. But work doesn't necessarily translate to quality. It reads choppily, the flow is so-so at best, a lot of things end up confusing, either not possible to understand at all or you have to stop and think to understand what it probably means, there are also a pretty large amount of grammatical issues. Part of the issue is that they need a good editor, but the biggest issue is probably that it's machine translation. It's edited machine translation and the translator translates some things wrong and more confusing things are either improvised or just left as gibberish. The frequent shifts in perspectives make reading it even more frustrating, but that's the original's fault.I feel like 2/5 is a fair score. The writing is subpar, the story is simple at best, the characters are frustrating and shallow in personality, the story sets itself up to be misleading and the translation being of so-so quality just makes it even worse. Some people will enjoy this, but people who like confident, intelligent, calculative/creative/clever protagonists, horror, adventure or comedy likely won't appreciate this much. I have zero idea how this got such a high score because it doesn't deserve it at all. Luck, perhaps, or people who found it just happened to love mushy friendship between kids.
