This is being read as an offshoot continuing Episode 3. Episode 1 was originally read as part of the Visual Novel Book Club.
Current week start date: August 18, 2023
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Pace
We’re aiming to read approximately 25k characters per week! A suitable enough end point will be selected each week and posted within the thread.
This week's endpoint: 24.9k
Omitting screenshots and text this week to avoid spoilers. The endpoint is the end of 4/30, it should be very evident looking at the scenes table below. If you see the 5/01 transition screen that’s it.
Scene transitions and character count (Steam version)
| Location |
Character Count |
| Kakeru’s home |
6 |
| Musings (Beginning of 4/30) |
9 660 |
| Kakeru’s home |
10 442 |
| Kakeru’s home (Endpoint) |
24 916 |
Discussion Guidelines
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Another week with very long scenes, even longer than the last. There might be some fitting stopping points in between, I honestly can’t remember precisely, but after the 9 660 characters mark it’s all one long segment so I recommend that as a rest point. No other good options this time, unfortunately.
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I agree, I also had similar impressions as I was reading it. On the one hand I was enjoying it because I always enjoy reading this VN a lot ever since I mentioned turning off the critical brain. It’s goofy and cute, there’s always something that makes me laugh and this week was great in that regard too (and had a tiny dose of cringe too). But on the other hand I was a bit disappointed with how sudden they developed both Noa and her relationship with Kakeru. Like, I still like her a lot as a character, but going from how she used to be just last week, to confessing her feelings and straight-out asking for (implied) sex just a couple scenes later, hmm… yeah I don’t know, I’m not sure I liked that too much. Haruka was very forward as well but at least it made sense as part of her playful alter ego, the actual romance felt better developed with her. I can’t say I’m not a bit disappointed, but I’m holding off in case we’re missing coming context or future events that would put this into a better frame. It doesn’t make sense for her to be losing control of her artifact as she hasn’t been using it, I don’t think things are going that way, but who knows. We’ll see when the time comes, though this has the potential to be one of my complaints of the episode so far. Nothing major, just hope it was different. Though, to be fair, I’ll give her what she says about Kakeru being able to use オーバーロード but her not being able to turn back time, it kinda makes sense that she’s afraid she might not be able to experience that love if anything happens to them, what with all the impending doom and whatnot, because it’s May 1st already and there’s potentially only a couple days left.
With that said, language wise and in terms of enjoyment out of reading this I’m pretty satisfied. They have to do something pretty bad for me to lose interest in reading this at this point. It sucks that with language you never really know 100% if you’re actually learning most of the time but I can honestly say that my skill has definitely improved from episode 1 to episode 4, but that’s a thought for once the series is done 
. I’ve also been reading other stuff so I can’t really put all the merit on 9-Nine-.
Also sorry for being a complete mess again with commenting lately, I tend to delay it a lot and whenever I have free time I end up being absorbed or busy with something and then I just update the read every day thread and go to sleep, then repeat 
. I still haven’t even posted my thoughts on Zero Escape, sigh. I know it’s not a requirement, but it’s always more fun when more people interact so I kinda feel a tiiiiny bit guilty about it haha.
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). I wish Kakeru would stop being so oblivious to Noa’s advances. I guess now he won’t be but it felt like he was being extra dumb not knowing what she was hinting at when she asked to stay over and whatnot.