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The chuunibyou is strong with this one.Seriously, how did all of the reviews fail to mention this? I was laughing out loud, not only at our MC's view of the world, but also the author in the background making poking fun at their own creations lolAfter finishing: Idk what drove me to stay up for three consecutive days to finish this - probably the fact that I have no will power against mystery plots. And also that it's good. The chuunibyou faded after the first twenty chapters, which was slightly disappointing, but did enable me to read more than three paragraphs without cringing internally.The side characters were forgotten about and not utilised as much as they could have been. The overarching plot was satisfactory, though at times I couldn't quite make sense of what I was reading. Whatever horror elements the author was trying to siphon off from Lovecraft failed, but the relationship between the gods and our pitifully miniscule MC was interesting. My only gripe is probably that the MC didn't seem to express any desire for the ML physically - an odd thing to complain about, but it felt like the characters were only gay because the author wanted them to be, rather than because they actually were? Idk if that explains it. (Oh, and props to the translator for translating the author's notes and also adding such extensive translation notes + pictures for the Lovecraftian horror elements)