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In the Preface, I love the it’s not a wolf, it’s not another person, definitely not a bear, must a be a werewolf! The only logical explanation. Really enjoying it so far.
Maybe they are big fans of sailor moon? The kid is embracing it tho
I’m really curious how the stakes will be established later on, will someone actually be killed and then they have to figure out who the werewolf is? Or can they establish that there is a werewolf without someone dying first? Seems like a rather small cast to immediately kill someone off.
Yeah, I was surprised about that too. But I know too many pieces of media where the main character still was the bad guy as a twist although we heard their inner voice theoretically.
But I don’t feel like the book will go in that direction. Unless werewolf-mode is like a split personality/some sort of curse and ハヤト meant no harm and can get cleansed of it or something! But from the prologue it didn’t seem that way?
I was also surprised by this, although not for werewolf reasons. I think it’s the first time I’ve read in first person in Japanese so I had to get used to it.
There’s only so many things it could be!
It’s Occam’s Werewolf!
I’m also curious about that. Especially since from the book description it seems like the one who dies is the one the group votes for (i.e. they try to find the werewolf via voting, and if they fail, the werewolf eats who they voted for instead), which seems like something that the group would need proper motivation for. So maybe they’ll refrain from the first vote, and then somebody random is “eaten”? Possibly an adult, considering that it’s a children’s book and they probably wouldn’t want to shrink their children cast immediately.
Also, on that matter… how the heck is there a traitor in their midst anyway? Does the count plant one into every summer camp in the hopes that at some point they are forced to make a stop at the death game murder mansion? Is the landslide also part of the plan?
Anyways, lot of mysteries, looking forward to how it continues next week!
And yeah, I also wouldn’t have expected it to be written in first person. It’s not unwelcome though. It’s been a while.
More importantly though, I already like how much of it is dialogue! Me and my aphantasia are very thankful.
Wow you haven’t been reading middle grade romance books targeted at young girls or bad high school LNs then because that’s the only perspective I’ve read in ages
I have a question, on p. 11 (at least on my Kindle edition), how did you translate this sentence? むにゆむにゆ、と誰かが起き出した。I’m mainly interested in the first half of the sentence.
This week’s reading was such a little tidbit and I am not at all familiar with this genre, so I don’t know what to make of anything yet! Except that they obviously should NOT knock on the door of that mansion.
Is the mansion actually a really nice place? Will our starving ウサギ get a proper meal? And how many werewolves can fit into one really big room?
Find out the answers to those questions*, and more*, in the next week’s reading:
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The kid is embracing it tho
Seems like a rather small cast to immediately kill someone off.
