Omg this poor starving kitten, I spent at least 5 more pages wondering what happened to it and I guess we’ll never find out 
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Part of me feels like there’s a possibility the kitten could be significant, with the amount of time and level of detail spent on it, but if not, then in my head it got picked up by someone and is living a comfortable life as a well-looked-after indoor cat.
Of course, it could have just been there to illustrate Hodaka’s kindness/selflessness, that he’d give half his last remaining food to a cat he’ll never see again even after having nearly 6 days’ worth of funds sponged off of him by an adult who really should have been more considerate.
Yup, long, cushy life as a spoiled indoor cat.
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I finally finished my previous book 
and have started to read 天気の子.
The prologue started off with a very interesting vibe!
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Read ch 2 & 3 today!
ch 3
The kitty’s back!! I feel like I’da named them ホシ, but アメ’s a cute name too. A cute name for an even more adorable cat, oh my gosh. I love when cats reach up to take things in both their paws…
Honestly I think I care about that rn than finally meeting our weathergirl lol
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About halfway through chapter 4 now. I’m reading somewhere between 3-5% a day (basically at least 3% and then the next logical section break if I’m not near the end of a chapter).
I’m enjoying the non-linear story telling, but it is a lot harder in a foreign language. Like, am I confused, is this entirely unrelated? Is it supposed to be like this?
ch 3
Well that escalated quickly.
I was glad to see アメ again. I was worried!
I found this chapter to be particularly fun (I mean, as fun as it can be given the circumstances 
) since I usually stay in Kabukicho when I go to Tokyo so I could really imagine where they were. I was also trying to remember if I know where a McDonalds is so I can make 陽菜 work (well… have worked) there 
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Finished ch 1.
This puts us right into the action! So far we get the very classical tropes of “poor country boy runs off to big town and despite expectations does not manage to survive” plus the “encounters stranger who offers help and despite initial rejection finally accepts”. 
But it is quite well-written and so I’m happy to ride along! Curious to learn why our boy is depicted as “it always rains where he is” and why he did not seem to notice in his previous 16(?) years… or maybe this is a recent thing for him? 
Regarding the kitten: I think it was just inserted here to show his gentleness, I don’t expect it to appear once again. Actually, regarding the story I’m far more concerned about the gun he picked up 
But what about the dude on the bus with the bunch of girls? 
That sounded somewhat more relevant…
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I forgot about him! That was so sketch, I was cringing along with Hodaka 
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Finished ch 2+3.
Ch 2 was basically him settling into his new job and all that it entails. Writing articles for tabloids sounds like good fun, but to me it somewhat feels like he is being held like a servant (or slave? …) with all the scolding and all the jobs he has to fulfill. Also, just food and a space to live in exchange for a basically 24/7 job sounds like a solid underpayment, although they seem to be on the way to becoming friends…
Ch 3 offered some more action! He found the cat again, and he also found the girl from McDonalds again, although… in somewhat strange circumstances. And I was right worrying about the “toy” gun haha And really, if he could fire it just so, that means that it was unlocked (and cocked? Or are there guns that don’t need it?) all the time?! And somebody threw it away like that? That sounds mildly implausible if you ask me…
But yeah bottom line is that we now have two runaways, it seems
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Oh you mean that it jumps around between narrators? (I usually take “non-linear” to mean “jumps around in time”, but that’s not what happens here.) I often encounter switches in narrators in books, and yes, it’s a bit trickier to figure out whose POV it is when you’re not yet used to the indicators that you may want to look out for in Japanese.
What exactly do you mean by this?
Just finished ch 4. I can totally see how this works as an anime, it’s such a vivid description! Also, admittedly it feels a bit … flat, which is of course normal given it’s geared towards teenagers. But still 
I almost laughed out loud when we came across the bus dude again That surprised me. He seems to be a nice guy after all, from what we’ve seen in this chapter.
But the flea market owner paying them that much more? Sounds quite unrealistic…
Not just that, but there are other types of content interspersed in the main narrative. And there was some time slipping in the prologue iirc (it’s been a couple of weeks since I started reading), which to be fair is pretty common for a prologue, but still.
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ch 4
Leave it to this book to not leave any loose ends hanging! I laughed out loud when Nagi showed up while they were making the website! Based on his introduction and how he acted when he met Hodaka I thought he was going to be a total brat. I was super surprised that he showed up with the てるてる坊主 and was cheering for his big sister in this one.
ch 5
I’m conflicted with the start of the chapter. I really like how it sorta montaged the start of the 晴れ女 business and gave us some third person characterization of our MCs. On the other hand, having the 4 “what were you looking for?” and then immediately following that their reviews felt like it ground the narrative to a halt. I either wish that there had been fewer reviews, or they were better interleaved into the story threads.
That said, the end of the chapter definitely left me feeling uneasy. I’m almost halfway through and things seem to be going perfectly. Something bad’s going to happen isn’t it?
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Finished ch 5 as well.
I found it rather cute actually, especially the 4-year-old who knew basically no kanji except 金
I didn’t feel like the narrative was halted, it was contained in their requests and reviews, in a more subtle way than before. That was quite nice, I thought.
Yes of course! Classic plot scheme 
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Finished Ch 1.
I’m super lazy lately, trying my best to keep up with reading but I will try to speed up and finish the book by the end of January
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I’ve fallen behind. I knew I shouldn’t have started playing NWN last month.
Finished ch 4 today, we’ll see if I read any more later. Jury’s still out on Nagi. We still don’t know if he’s actually multi-timing or simply has a lot of friends who are girls. That he’s like 10 wouldn’t make that behavior any less deplorable.
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Ch 6
I must confess I was a bit confused at first due to the two scenes unfolding simultaneously, but 俺 vs. 僕 made them easy to distinguish in the end.
OK, so first of all we get to the “children’s education” section, about Obon and temple maids and so on. - Not that I dislike the contents, but I somehow dislike the tone every. single. time. this happens.
Anyways, we learn that not only our small beloved company is in trouble, there seems to hang some dark fate over the head of our nice-weather girl as well…
Ch 7
Loved the ring-buying scene - that shop person was so sweet 
But then, that was quite the trap Why on earth did she tell him “it’s just what you think”?? Who would think of uncle and niece first
But in the end they all had a lovely day, and on the way home he almost managed to confess, when suddenly all hell broke loose… I guess now the drama begins!
still wondering what the old dude at the temple told her…
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He was precious!!
I agree that I may have been a bit too harsh, but I still stand by my initial thought that there didn’t have to be 4 reviews back to back.
It may also be that this is just at the edge of my Japanese ability to read (the grammar’s fine, but my vocabulary is really lacking), so anything outside of the normal narration is more frustrating for me to read.
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OK yes I can totally see that. First of all we had four different narrators with different styles, which is always a bit harder to settle into, and also especially the racehorse guy used a harder-to-read language (probably mimicking his age) so that’s relatable. (And yes, I also thought that 4 reviews were a bit much, interesting as they were…)
Good on you that you made it nonetheless! The next time you come across a harder passage, it will be slightly less hard for you, I’m sure! 
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Yeah he especially was exhausting with both his speech and the racing vocabulary.
I think I like the literary device, I just thought how much there was was a bit excessive.
Oh chalk up a win for the audiobook then. They’re two different voices so I didn’t even realize this would be confusing with text only!
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Ch 8
OK, now we have the big drama we were all waiting for: She decides to run away because they are after her and her brother for being minors, he decides to run away because the police is after him because his parents reported him as missing, and when they run, they are caught by police! Due to some incredible luck (plus weathering skill, I guess) they manage to escape and end up at a love hotel where they spend an incredibly sweet evening together, with him finally giving her the ring 
But then, her weathering activities take their toll…
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finished ch 5 today
I didn’t mind the beginning of the chapter, with the set of reviews following directly after the set of requests. In fact, I liked it. It was sort of amusing when they’d start rambling in their requests… and how each of them was about one page long, and then 4 y.o.: one sentence. They’re each about one page long, and then the 4 y.o.: two sentences. lol
Yeah, those last couple lines of the chapter… It definitely feels like things will start going not-so-well very soon.
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