Yet another surprising devolvement with the existence of another snack store. Hopefully that’ll come up again, I want to see this developped more.
I figured something was up what with Beniko coming directly to the customer to bring him to the shop herself, and that turned out to be very much the case.
I was curious what the potential negative consequences would be for misusing the snack, because I didn’t see that going in the way of making the poor 5 year old suffer more. But then I guess that ended up working out! The bad guy got the consequences of his actions, the risk for the dad was more choosing revenge over his daughter, leaving her to suffer from the curse.
So an excellent start overall, I’ll probably read the rest of the volume relatively quickly because I can’t wait to see what happens
Phone calls tend to tire me out a lot, so I get the main character for this one . That was just a disaster waiting to happen though, but hey, at least we still got an unexpected ending with that one, what with the kidnapping.
Book 3 ch3
Idk if it’s just that I coincidentally have come across a lot of this vocab, but this one felt weirdly much easier than the other stories. I think I did one or two lookups, one of them being 말괄량이, meaning tomboy ㅋㅋㅋ. It helped that the Japanese terms had a nice little explanation next to them though.
I figured something bad would happen with the boy making two wishes, that only the second wish would be taken into account. The appearance of another wish maker though? That I definitely did not expect.
Book 3 ch4
This story makes me wonder if Beniko also used this pickled plum snack, and gave the red plum to one of the people running the other magical stores. It would certainly explain her oddly wrinkle free appearance, and from what we’ve seen, she’s definitely one for revenge.
I was happy to see the snack instructions make a comeback, we hadn’t gotten those in a while. I lowkey love the idea of the bad guy being stuck in a hospital with everyone thinking he’s crazy because he keeps saying he’s in his twenties though. And a nice ending for the grandma, learning to love herself, wrinkles or not.
Just jumping in to say that I started to read the first book and plan to keep reading the whole series. It feels a bit too difficult now, but I hope that by the end of the series my reading abilities have gotten better.
I read the first book and parts of the second book years ago, but I started again from book 1, page 1 now just to be sure that I remember everything.
This story was only okay for me. I was kind of surprised by the turn it took about her friend being kidnapped, it got very scary when it said that her friend had met up with a strange man who was saying she could be a model. I was like, human trafficking?? Of course it’s a children’s book so she is fine but that plot point felt kind of dark.
Also, the main character’s response to that whole situation was just to turn off her phone? But the whole reason Sayaka got kidnapped is because the main character wasn’t looking at her phone and was letting the answering machine snail answer for her! Kind of seems like she should be keeping an eye on Sayaka!
This was a fun story. At first, I was annoyed because I thought the boy was going to be rewarded somehow even though he bullies the one girl. I hate when media is like ‘this boy bullies a girl but it’s fine because he likes her.’ But the story took a fun turn with the two wishes colliding! I thought it was fun that the two wishes were phrased exactly the same way. And a first appearance of the 銭天堂 pop-up shop!
Edit: I’m in posting jail but here are the next two chapters reactions:
Book 3 chapter 4:
This chapter was only fine for me although I did think it was kind of fun that we got an in-universe explanation for how Beniko has such smooth skin haha.
Book 3 chapter 5
Okay, I wasn’t expecting such a chaotic ending. I guess no one wins in this story. This was fun with the siblings switching roles and the illustration of all the younger siblings treating お兄ちゃん as a little brother was really funny to me.
That one was such a wild card right? A nice thought experiment, like what if you had a different role in family and society every day, maybe interesting, but omg it would be exhausting
I found myself wondering if the other characters were aware of what was happening. Like, our main guy 明 knows that he used to be お兄さん and now he’s 弟 but do the other siblings remember they used to be the younger siblings? At the end, everyone must be switching places, do they remember from day to day?
Ok, the mummy chapter was awesome. I really enjoyed the perspective of someone who wasn’t actually the customer being like ‘what is going on here’ hahaha. Also, this chapter had some comedy moments when she was rushing to make the potion to heal her sister and trying to borrow milk from the ojiisan but he kept pulling out the wrong ingredients hahah.
I just started book 6, so @CatDQ I’ll peak into your post and reply as I go
It’s been a while, so I looked back at my notes and was really glad to have this thread. I forgot just about everything from volume 5 so it was a good refresh.
Book 6
Prologue
ok - Beniko’s reopening the store after the fiasco of book 5, but at the start she has the symptoms of a cold - or is it some kind of curse on her?! Judging by the ghost on the back cover and how these prologues foreshadow world building, I’m curious if this is a continuation of the Yodomi arc or a new character!
I’m considering re-reading the series once I’ve finished 坊っちゃん since I seem to be understanding more grammar inherently as I continue reading stuff. That and the fact I have forgotten some of the world building parts (or didn’t really understand them the first time round).
Neat - I like the idea of a play on words misunderstanding meaning that the customer gets the wrong sweet. (The kid wanted to be taller but Beniko thought he wanted to be an 大物- like the “bigger” person in English conceptually).
Ch 2
The couple get the バランスラスク so they stop fighting about how clean the house should be. I was predicting if they ate the second box that they would change further in the other direction and be less happy, but that wasn’t the case (which is good, that would have been boring! ). It seems what Beniko meant with her warning about eating too much is that later when the kids are fighting they will wish they would have still had the second box to give the twins.
In other words they aren’t able to help their twin girls because they already ate the second box of the バランスラスク right away, oops!
Ch 3
Well if you need うんこ vocabulary for kids I guess this is where you get it
. That was just a disaster waiting to happen though, but hey, at least we still got an unexpected ending with that one, what with the kidnapping.
At the end, everyone must be switching places, do they remember from day to day?
