We’re planning to read the light novel while waiting for the next volume of the manga to be released.
I’m planning a fairly slow pace for selfish reasons, as I’m in a fair few clubs currently. However, I’ve never set a schedule for a novel, so we’ll see how this goes!
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I started more or less with the schedule. Finished Novel Mission 1 a couple days ago!
Novel Mission 1
So far the author does seem to follow the expected character personalities pretty well. The Anya - Damian dynamics were just as expected. This mission at least follows more the comedy-type chapters of the manga, and it’s a bit on the silly side.
Reading difficulty wasn’t too bad, maybe except for the parts where I had to parse Anya’s pure-hiragana dialogue.
Great! That gives me motivation to catch up (I haven’t looked behind your spoiler tag yet).
I had a couple of other books to finish off but that’s done now, so this will be my main focus for the next few days, I should be able to make decent progress.
Yuri - Anya made an unexpectedly interesting combination that we didn’t see almost at all in the manga, so it was nice to see them interact.
I like how this chapter doesn’t give you much details of what Anya picks up through her mind-reading powers, but shows she still using that knowledge to her advantage here and there.
I’ve just finished the first volume of the manga and have been thoroughly enjoying it!
Is the light novel bringing anything new to the table? I’m really enjoying the art style too so I’m not sure I would ever want to engage with the story through text only.
To be honest, so far not really. The first story was OK, the second involves Yuri who I generally find annoying. I’ll let you know when I’ve read more of it!
So I definitely felt a spike in difficulty for this mission, probably due to a lack of Anya this chapter.
Frankie is not among my favorite Spy x Family characters, so I didn’t enjoy this chapter much. It’s kinda interesting that the novel takes this special angle where Frankie actually manages to outwit Tasogare, and also probably take the right decision regarding a woman, for a change.
I kinda suspected how this mission was going to get solved from the start… I was happy to have a mission with more participation from Yor, but sadly the chapter is a bit too silly for me (though I guess not really that off to how she’s like in the manga in some moments…)
It was nice that the novel actually includes a picture of a non-abstract portrait at the end.
