- #1
Good premise, but the prose is bad. Overly expositional in a work where worldbuilding isn't a selling point. We know what a library or a cheap hair saloon is we don't need a paragraph to describe it.It's also repetitive, every chapter Reiko does something mundane, people simp her, she says it's no big deal, they say it is. This is standard in wish fulfilment novel but it gets boring fast.The cast is fun, they are the rich boys' archetypes we know and like in Shoujo, nothing particularly outstanding except the female BFF. Reiko herself doesn't have much personality and is fairly reactive BUT this is well explained in the story. The antagonist doesn't do much really. The cast is not realist and I don't blame the antagonist for believing this is an Otome Game World.Anyway, still gets one star because the translations are good and there's nothing offensive about it. Well, there's a good amount of classicism but it goes with the rich kids high school genre