šŸ° Home Thread for Magical boy Natsuki x Loveits šŸŽ€ | Week 4

Yeah, this definitely a pretty soft system in terms of rules. ā€œCharacter does cool thingsā€ is about all you need to boil it down to.

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@Naphthalene after reading chapter 2, it really does look like ć‚­ćƒ³ć‚° was aiming for the lips. :kiss: Further proof I wasnā€™t going crazy?

And I have to say, dramatic battle between huge man and stuffed animal unexpectedly hits the spot. :ok_hand:

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I like how easily the school accepts this whole thing, to the point of asking the good looking bad guy brigade to ā€œwait until Natsuki completes his magic, because it will surely be cuteā€. I do have to suspend my disbelief for a tiiiiiny bit though :laughing:

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Page 65: itā€™s kinda funny to have a guy with ē™¾åˆ in the background. Since he is talking to a girl, I actually went one page back to double check that he was indeed a guy.

Page 69: 惗ć‚Æć‚Æ? He is having too much fun explaining something terrifying. But also, why does it work like that? If both their lips touch, shouldnā€™t the effect be symmetrical?

Page 71: thatā€™s a bit much to think junior high students would stand in the way of that guy just because Natsuki is cuteā€¦

No, you see, on the other hand that one makes complete sense to me.

Page 91: and it was.

Page 102 (still part of chapter 2 apparently): ah, the fact that ā€œmonzaemonā€ā€™s katana was 5 times his size makes more sense now. Didnā€™t see it comingā€¦ but I wasnā€™t thinking very hard either.

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Oh, no, I totally get why he would want that; what I am dubious about is how they seem awfully quick to accept the whole premise of magic existing, Natsuki becoming a magician, and some shadowy organization wanting to stop him - and also awfully quick in understanding that all of that is happening in the first place. Where are they getting all their information from? Are they also reading the manga? :laughing:

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Itā€™s time for week 3! I wonder if weā€™ll learn more about Spade.

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Still gotta read week 3; itā€™s been a long week. @.@ @Naphthalene did you want to put up a poll on whether people are still interested in reading further volumes? Just to double-check how everyoneā€™s feeling.

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I was thinking of doing so after we are done with volume 2, yes. But I guess doing so after volume 1 makes sense too.
So far, people have been commenting around the weekend, so Iā€™m not worried about the lack of activity this week, but itā€™s true that we are a small group.

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Checking at volume two sounds reasonable to me as well; all our previous manga series picks were at two volumes, so it makes sense.

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P 108: it feels a bit weird to me that Spade hesitates for that reason. Likeā€¦ the fate of his world is in the balanceā€¦

P 111: ā€œI donā€™t want to betray my peopleā€, meanwhile he is basically the MVP on Natsukiā€™s team.

P 117: Errm no no no, thatā€™s very weird.

P 118: I trust ā€œēŽ‹å­ā€ (forgot his name) even less than the black cloaks.

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Heā€™s getting emotionally attached and he is really interested in Natsukiā€™s magic and doesnā€™t want to spoil it. Is either of those a good enough reason not to restore his home world? Probably not, but we donā€™t know anything about his priorities. Maybe he doesnā€™t think Earth is so bad anyway.

ā€¦or I guess maybe the manga doesnā€™t care enough to make it a good reason and it is Natsuki cuteness overriding logical reasoning again.

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Thatā€™s pretty much how I take it. The author notices a potential plot hole and goes ā€œlook, like, yeah, you knowā€ (cue heavy hand waving).

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I mean, since he seems to be really into magic I can sort of understand how Natsuki must fascinate him. Like, if thatā€™s what Natsuki can do 15 minutes after he discovered magicā€¦ what will he be able to do in a month? In a year?

It just doesnā€™t seem to be a good enough reason to not complete his seemingly incredibly important mission and betray his comrades.

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P 138 (I think, last page): 恩

I feel like it could have been made more realistic if they had spent more time togetherā€¦ I donā€™t know how the author would have justified him not making a move until that change of heart, though.

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Week 4! And end of the first volume!
I looked at the first two (2) pages and Iā€™m not happy with how things are going :sweat_smile: Hopefully it gets better just after that.

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My immediate reaction when I thumbed through the first few pages of the week 4 chapter was ā€œSeriously? :confused:ā€

Iā€™ll finish this volume, but not sure Iā€™ll want to continue.

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Rather than it being a plot hole, this is what I took it as. The bad guys have been at this for like five years already before meeting Natsuki; Iā€™m sure they were all desperate to save their world at first, but a prolonged amount of time on Earth can really dull the pressure, especially if youā€™re carefree enough, like Spade seems to be. We donā€™t know what life was like on their world, after all.

Him and that pair of scissorsā€¦ Would Monzaemon bleed in his toy state?

The sceneā€™s like three pages long, itā€™s not supposed to scar readers or Natsuki, no worries.

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And thus volume 1 ends. Good stuff, good stuff; I hope everyone else is enjoying it.

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I did not particularly enjoy the first volume and wonā€™t read the next. It just didnā€™t do anything for me.
Itā€™s nothing like the last two BL BCs, which were also my first two (åƒ•ć‚‰ć®é£Ÿå“ | L20 and ć‚¬ćƒ³ćƒćƒ¬! äø­ę‘ćć‚“! ! | L22), which I actually quite enjoyed.

Itā€™s not as cute and innocent as the cover suggests, with all the old dudes. And there doesnā€™t seem to be any particularly interesting plot or characters.

I also found it surprisingly difficult to read.

I do find the whole é­”ę³•å°‘å¹“ interesting, though (even though I recently feel a bit pessimistic about actually enjoying é­”ę³•å°‘å„³ genre things). Looking at Magical Boys! | Japanese list by bibliothecary | Natively most works seem to be guys transforming into girls or cross dressing, and I find the Natsuki é­”ę³•å°‘å¹“ approach more interesting.

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Thatā€™s a shame! Glad you could join us for the first volume, at least! Hopefully the next book club pick vibes with you more.

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