東京BABYLON | Tokyo Babylon | Week 6 | Jan 5 - 11

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Reading schedule

Week Reading Pages # pages read
6 Annex - Smile 243-286 44

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Ugh, so behind, but I’m gonna try and catch back up this week.

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I am as well. :sweat_smile: I don’t even know how many weeks I’m behind at this point. :face_with_peeking_eye: It just keeps getting pushed to the bottom of my to-do list, which is a good indication of me not really being super into it. I definitely want to finish at least this first (omnibus) volume to give it a fair shake, but.

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This chapter was for Hokuto and Hokuto only :white_heart:

The end of vol 2 made me tear up a little bit.
Hokuto is so kind, sweet and cool :two_hearts:

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Week 6

I really enjoyed the further character development of Hokuto, and this chapter was lovely!
I think she is really my favorite character so far. I like how she just feels human for me - with her quirks and flaws, as well as her eccentric personality, but also with her qualities such as kindness and courage to stand up to what she thinks is right :blush:

Overall

I have to say, I am enjoying the reading so far, but I wasn’t expecting it to have the current format: I was expecting a narrative mostly focused on Subaru with a clear storyline, but it feels very episodic and with vastly different focuses (for example, this week’s story with Hokuto was almost completely unrelated to the supernatural plot. I am curious to see if this will be an overarching theme to the volumes.

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Huh, this was a surprisingly nice little side story for 北都. I hadn’t liked her much based on the contexts we’ve seen her up until this point, but I’ll have to keep this chapter in mind in the future.