Oh, I got that one in my BookLive recommendations, and the title made me slightly curious.
That being said, I usually do not pay any mind to my recommendations as I got stuff like something something エロゲー 異世界 転生 or some such. (I’m not going to look the actual title up; I just remember it got recommended to me recently because of ポーション頼み)
but if 裏世界ピクニック has your seal of approval, I’ll check it out 
徒然日和 was cute, and I’d recommend it mostly because it’s short (3 volumes). It’s very light on actual yuri, but it is there. And it’s pretty funny too. I think that’s the only yuri manga I can recommend (besides やがて君になる of course).
Thanks!
I’ve watched a few episodes of the 裏世界ピクニック anime! It’s kinda fun. It’s funny to me that it’s based on a Russian novel.
When I searched 安達としまむら on kinokuniya, the first result was 忘れえぬ魔女の物語.
What! Пикник на обочине? Need to check this anime.
Assuming that’s the book google says it is, then yeah, the author of 裏世界ピクニック claims to have been hugely inspired by it.
I finished the second book in the 魔女の宅急便 series yesterday. Over a month after my last one but I actually only spent a week reading it. The rest of my time was focussed on other projects. 
Didn’t make as much progress on reading speed throughout the book as a I did last time but still improving, so I’m happy with that. I’m hoping to be at, maybe, 0.75 x audiobook speed by the end of the series. 
I thought the story would get kind of tired after the first book because I imagined it would be more of the same. And the content and narrative structure was largely the same but I didn’t get bored with it. Maybe I have a soft spot for coming of age stories but it’s just so charming. There’s some more mature themes introduced in this book (minor spoilers) (depression, death) which aren’t super heavy (it’s still a children’s book after all) but I thought were interesting to explore.
I have started reading 魔女の宅急便（３）as my next book. Kind of exciting to watch Kiki age. I wonder when she’ll reach my age (if ever).
Oh just to be clear, because I don’t want you to be disappointed, it isn’t an adaptation of Roadside Picnic. It’s just inspired by it. Different characters, different situation, etc.
In an especially cool coincidence, I spent the evening playing Digital Devil Story, and then happened to see a youtube channel I follow that posts obscure records uploaded… an extended Digital Devil Story themed album???
I don’t have an update since I’m in the middle of multiple things, but I’m enjoying myself, and also Book Walker really heavily roped me in with coins so now I have a lot of ebooks.
Thank you for using the English title, I completely didn’t realize I actually know the Russian novel you were talking about 
Yuri element was misleading
I didn’t read it, but I’ve heard a lot about the plot (and saw Tarkovsky’s adaptation, but it was meh).
I did read Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel (apparently also known as Inspector Glebsky’s Puzzle) by Strugatsky brothers, though, and it was nice.
Also thank you @Ditto20 for your list, bookmarked.
I caved in finally and used my credit card for the first time (only used apple id before), since I got too excited about reading manga, and the coinback campaign was too good. This is probably a slippery slope. RIP my wallet. Oh well, at least I’m starting a new job next month…
I was surprised it’s been letting me get +50% coins on most things, even on purchases made with coins.
What was originally a generous treat to myself for passing my savings goal thanks to an unexpected bonus and stimulus became a Zeno’s paradox style cascading coin parade doubling what was already way too many ebooks.
I guess in retrospect I shouldn’t be surprised a digital storefront might do that kind of thing when I’ve already proved more than susceptible to Steam’s similar tricks…
I’ve been on BW for quite some time and I can’t remember seeing so many things with COIN UP. It could be that I haven’t really payed attention to those, but I think it’s pretty rare. Tried searching for some campaign announcement, but there’s just too many to find the right one . Current coinback seems to run until tomorrow the 24th, so do your remaining purchases before that, if you have any 
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It does seem like they could do a better job signaling exactly why those modifiers are happening. I thought maybe I was getting away with a “first transaction” promotion on multiple transactions somehow, since that’s what came up when I googled around for +50% coins!
I guess I just coincidentally joined at the right time for almost the entire store to basically be half off. Lucky me I guess!
Now if only they had stuff from Naoki Urasawa or Go Nagai my “oh yeah I’d be curious to read that but don’t want to /can’t track down a full physical set” manga list would REALLY be sorted…
Yes, they do have a 50% coinback on everything right now, it seems. That’s pretty rare indeed, they only do it about once or twice a year. But sales (usually 30-45%) on select few items are frequent, like each week or so, I guess…
My strategy is to have all interesting books in the check list, so I can see automatically if there are any discounted books in there, and which they are.
You think Amazon would do a price match if I asked? 
Wait, so you got coins back by paying with only coins? That sounds wild. Coinception? I surely thought that should not work. But they do say on this page that.
Even if you make a payment using coins, coins will be granted based on your membership rank.
So I guess I should use the coins while the campaign is still on to get MOAR coins. Doesn’t that become a geometric series? So if I buy stuff with 1000 yen I get back 500, then 250 etc. So basically from that purchase you get 1000+500+250+125+62.5… and with the rule for geometric series the sum converges to 2. So basically with a thousand yen purchase you get to buy stuff with double the amount! Is this the way to exploit Bookwalker? 
My checklist is starting to go a bit out of hand with almost 150 items… Sometimes I feel the notifications are pretty random.
Edit: Just reread the sentence and it doesn’t say anything about the coins you get back from the campaign. Guess I spoke too soon.
It worked for Kindle points, I remember when I was buying HameFura 1-9 and I was waiting anxiously for the points to register (it takes a few minutes sometimes) so I can buy next volumes
And it didn’t matter it was a 50% points back promo.
This is what was so surprising to me, since I thought the same as you. But yep - the +50% coin promotion, like other coin stuff applies equally to coin purchases and credit card transactions.
This was a… powerful thing to realize after already spending a whole lot of money that I thought was going to go significantly less far!
Heck, when I made the initial purchase I didn’t even know one coin = one yen, I assumed it was less since I ended up with so many, so it was a nice surprise all around.
I spent a lot of time the last couple weeks ogling books and making a checklist. The coin largesse somehow didn’t make a dent in the number of items on the checklist… but it did significantly lower the average level of “gotta get it”-ness to a safe “that would be pretty cool to have sometime”!
Watch out though! 2021/3/24 09:59 in Tokyo is… 4 and a half hours from now (did I get that right?). And the coins take a little while to trigger so the cascade will be significantly less powerful soon.
Oh, wow! They are usually always until 23:59 of the date given, so I would definitely have missed that. Thanks! I guess it’s back to browsin and deciding what to buy .
I offer the information neutrally with neither exhortation nor judgment.
There’s definitely something devious about that sale in particular… I think seeing “the whole store is half off” would feel less like getting away with something than doing the coin from coins thing, even if the math works out the same. So the coins lure you in even more than a discount.
but I still bought some more stuff because we talked about it so much…
