Finished with this week’s reading! Below are basically my live reactions to some of the sections (I lost track of what number they were, sorry)
section 2 (私は映画サークル… pg. 38-40)
I’ve been suspecting for a while from the way he talks (well, narrates), but I think when he calls everyone getting along and making movies together “detestable” pretty much confirms it. Our MC never outgrew his preteen edgelord phase. It’s been a decade, man! No wonder nobody likes you. Well, that, and he’s totally full of himself. Go get an ice cream or something and chill
Also I feel like if he used 俺 instead of 私 in the narrative he would be slightly less dislikable. The only other first-person novels I’ve read so far had a gal as the POV character so I dunno if the POV character using 私 regardless of their default personal pronoun (although there was the one who used あたし) is just a thing or not, but him doing it just feels like he’s pretending, or I dunno playing nice or something. It kinda rubs me the wrong way tbh. Almost like it’s false politeness.
Honestly I hope more stuff like him getting struck in the back by his own firework happens to him. Narrative justice, or what have you.
その日、街へ… section (pg 49-54)
MC: -goes on about how his life would be so much better and more meaningful if he hadn’t met Odzu, and he’d be so much more productive and dating the woman of his dreams-
Odzu: その椎茸、妄想キノコではないですか？
Pffft. Unfortunately, no, he’s just that delusional even without any psychotropic compounds to help him along. Those mushrooms are totally ordinary.
Also, bold of MC to assume anyone would want to date him, much less the black-haired maiden he so idealizes and no doubt wouldn’t treat as an actual person, involvement with Odzu or no. Please please please tell me he gets humbled at some point—and actually learns from it, instead of it making him worse. I may enjoy seeing him get punished by the narrative as much as the next guy, but honestly he needs that more.
鴨川デルタでの… section (pg. 54-56)
He… He hates women who understand guys like him, and just wants a black-haired maiden “girlfriend” to just sit there and look pretty. He’s so stupid (derogatory)
Yeah, he absolutely wouldn’t treat her as an actual person; she’s just a trophy.
Someone should punch him in the mouth. As a treat.
Odzu calling him a “未曾有の阿保で醜悪無比な人間” was great. Roast him more.
Akashi has good judgement of people, so she won’t go for Odzu. Oh, but she’ll go for you?? He’s so deluded. Honestly him calling Odzu 腹黒過ぎる feels a bit like the pot calling the kettle black, too.
And that final movie sure was, uh, something. I don’t remember, did our MC ever specifically say why he hates Jougasaki? He’s mentioned quite a few times that Jougasaki’s always leering at the female members’ breasts, but tbh our MC doesn’t really seem the type to care about that, at least not specifically/on its own; he ain’t exactly drinking his respect women juice either, and he only cares about looks too (though I guess face more than body)
Y’know, now that I think of it, I wonder if Odzu uses polite speech because that’s just how he talks, or because MC is older. MC mentioned having been a rounin for an unspecified amount of time, but nothing about Odzu having been so too iirc, so he’s probably younger. (And was he a rounin because he chose to take the time off, or was it because he couldn’t get in? Because if it was the latter, that might put a dent in his so-called “genius” lol)
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