Anyway, on to v8, but I guess I won't actually finish it tonight, so hopefully that'll be tomorrow.

I'm going to start v7 in a little bit, and hopefully manage to catch up with the LN releases by the end of tomorrow… Hopefully.

It's amusing, despite how much I usually hate books which focus and rely on miscommunication and misunderstandings, shuukura manages to pull it off in a way I really enjoy. Probably because it's used for growth not just remaining as is and static, or STOPPING development.

I have to say one thing that would have been nice, and a little unusual, is something being proper one sided and then growing from there on the reunion, but it was pretty obvious from the beginning there was more of a connection between the two of them than that.

I'd been hoping for the resolution to either be earlier in the book or at least show more after it and progress further. It reads like it could very well be a one shot as well, so I don't know how much hope I've got to see it get any further.

Honestly, the number of authors that write in first person and then have the pov character miss speech that's clear for the reader is far too high. Still, the characters were fairly charming, and I appreciated Ririmu deciding enough was enough.

Again, I really feel like digging in to both volumes, and maybe even the web novel and getting a whole timeline and relation chart set up. Maybe I'll do that in the next holiday I get?

It's also very blatantly waiting for a continuation, so I really hope Dre keep up their current track record (at least as far as I've checked) with publishing all content from their WN licenses.

The author mentioned in the afterword that the volume needed more than was in the WN, and honestly it felt like there were more plot events than normal for a single volume of light novel.

Hopefully we get more, because I'd like to see where it actually goes from that last scene

Last 'award' goes to 少女星間漂流記 (rough TL: Girls' Interstellar Tales) for being pretty much the only completely episodic story I remember enjoying the read of. Also for having very pretty coloured art.

I'm also going to give another shout out to 週に一度クラスメイトを買う話 v5 (rough TL: Buying My Classmate Once a Week) for being perfectly ended to make me 'need' to pick up the WN and read to (at the time) the latest chapter. It's been a lot of fun.

The prize for surprisingly wholesome despite the premise making it sound decidedly far from that is 手に入れた催眠アプリで夢のハーレム生活を送りたい (rough TL: I Got a Hypnosis App and Want My Perfect Harem Life)

Absolute favourite book of the year ended up being 勇者の旅の裏側で (rough TL: Behind the Scenes of a Heroic Journey) due to a combination of humour, general writing skill, and world building. I'm still tempted to get a corkboard out to keep track of all the relations between people and things