Welcome to the book club for the Magical Boy Natsuki x Loveits series!
(Using partially the official English title from the cover, since we are going for a multilingual book clubActually using the official English title; what’s a loveit you ask? Read with us to find out!).
This bookclub is part of the BL Book Club.
The series is finished and comprised of 4 volumes. The original vote was to read all of them, but I guess this will depend on participation.
Spoilers should always be hidden using spoiler blur.
When discussing a specific section, please mention where you are in the book, ideally by chapter so people reading different versions have a clear point of reference.
Feel free to read ahead if it’s exciting, but please refrain from spoiling ahead of the appropriate week.
If you have a question about grammar, vocab, cultural things, etc - ask! That’s a welcome part of the discussion too, and other readers will be happy to help.
Will you be reading along when the club starts on January 13th?
Yes
No
Maybe
I’ll be reading, but at my own pace
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What type of media will you be consuming the book as?
As far as I can see, chapters are 40~50 pages long. Volumes 3 and 4 have some shorter ones, but I think we can combine them with the one arounds and keep things around ~60 pages max.
Oh, didn’t even know this had a book club. It’s been on my PTW list since I saw other people reading it and I saw the cute magical boy on the cover. So I guess I’ll join in lol
Who are you and what have you done with “I’m trying to keep myself out of more bookclubs by only reading things I already own or nominate myself” shitsurei?
I am finally on a computer, so I could edit the schedule.
I only put stuff up for the first two volumes, since volume 3 is where things start to be unbalanced.
The easiest way is to combine chapters, but that brings stuff up to 60+ pages, so I think we should see how people feel about that when we get there.
Would you mind detailing a bit the themes this series is about, preferably with minimal spoilers? I read the preview but I’m still not sold on it… The art style is cute but the general premise seems sus.
Sure! This is a coming-of-age tale with a bit of found family thrown in. Our hero Natsuki is a young man who starts the tale in denial of what he likes and how he wants to live life (as a cute magical girl/boy), and through his trials and tribulations against the bad guys must re-examine his beliefs and emotions surrounding his inner emotional turmoil.
Hmm, yeah, the addition to the general premise I didn’t mention above is a tough one. For those not in the know, the bad guys’ plan involves one of them kissing Natsuki (a middle schooler) on the lips (the needed kiss is presumably chaste; no further details are given for the specifics of the act) (and now that I’m thinking again, I’m trying to remember if a kiss on the lips is even required, or if a forehead/cheek kiss works as well. ) ; I don’t remember if ages for the bad guys were given off the top of my head, but general ages range from probably-high-school to might-be-young-middle-age. (I can re-check my books to see if they specify if anyone requests.)
For what it’s worth, I’m not a fan of age-gap stuff, and I had no issues reading this. But I also read a lot of stuff that’s probably trash, so disclaimer applies. And despite the premise, I would honestly say that this (for the most part except for [spoiler]) sits on that edge of “marketed towards BL readers, but little to no ‘actual’ BL happens” type deal, for those wondering about the BL aspect.
I felt like the author presented all the attempted kissing in such a way that didn’t feel creepy, as it’s generally accompanied by Natsuki finding his inner bravery and winning the fight, but all mileages may vary, I’m sure.
Does that help, Belerith? I can answer more specific questions as well if needed!
We start!!!
Btw guys I recommend this mangaka in general, not just this work by her!! (She has 僕の呪いの吸血姫 1 | L24 and 魔法使いの弟子が笑う時。 1 | L23 as well, which are both awesome too)
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must re-examine his beliefs and emotions surrounding his inner emotional turmoil.
For those not in the know, the bad guys’ plan involves one of them kissing Natsuki (a middle schooler) on the lips (the needed kiss is presumably chaste; no further details are given for the specifics of the act) (and now that I’m thinking again, I’m trying to remember if a kiss on the lips is even required, or if a forehead/cheek kiss works as well. 
) ; I don’t remember if ages for the bad guys were given off the top of my head, but general ages range from probably-high-school to might-be-young-middle-age. (I can re-check my books to see if they specify if anyone requests.)
