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!
Ch 1 ビッグリもなか
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 バランスラスク
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! ). At first I thought 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.
But in the guide book - eating both boxes is what caused the imbalance in the next generation and the twins not getting along
That doesn’t feel very fair!
Ch 3 がまんエンピツ
Well if you need うんこ vocabulary for kids I guess this is where you get it
Ch 4 interlude
This slang is killing me 
I’ll write some notes on what tripped me up.
やんす seems to be です
At first due to the new character’s name I wrote this but it’s wrong: It seems Yodomi gave a treat to a prison guard and in exchange he’s getting her out. Correction: he’s not a prison guard!
He is introduced when she calls him 天獄園の怪童. 怪童 is his name, which I didn’t get at first because it’s also a word meaning strong youth. 天獄園 is a play on the similar sounding 天国 (heaven) and 典獄 (prison). So at first I thought/assumed went with considering it as some kind of fantasy prison guard term. But that is not it, at this point you don’t know / maybe a Japanese child would guess. This isn’t really a spoiler but we find out at the beginning of volume 7 天獄園 is a 遊園地 (amusement park) that he runs.
Yodomi gave him a treat in the past, and he is helping her.
As far as I understand he’s currently interfering with Beniko and making a plan to get out Yodomi. But for some reason he wants them to write a letter to Beniko. Yes, that is mysterious at this point!
I think looking back, there was just a lot of mystery, and that made it hard to know what I should understand and what I should guess. It got cleared up on its own later, as expected. But hopefully these notes are helpful to someone!
チャーミングミ
I liked the idea of the dog getting a treat, but the format of how it played out just felt more childish than normal
ラプンツェル プレッツェル
Again, I liked some of the ideas that went into this, but this one I found unbearably contrived. Maybe at this point in the book I’m losing some goodwill with the book 
The girl having an obsession with how her dad looks so that he gets the Rapunzel pretzel snack, and then her friend falling down a hill/cliff so he could save her with his long hair (which conveniently can grow to the limit of just long enough to save her), Beniko conveniently finding them, although just for the reveal that the father already had a sweet from her and refuses the replacement sweet.
It was nice to see someone being sensible and refusing it though 
子守コウモリ
This was my favorite story of the book - the twist at the end with the child/bat → mother/son relationship that the real mom had to battle was a pretty funny idea in the end
Epilogue
Showdown coming up. 
(you call that a letter?!!)
At the end, everyone must be switching places, do they remember from day to day?
