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It might just be me, but I wish we’d get more show and less introspective thinking about why people act the way they do.
Anyway, I’m glad something actually happened this week! We got to meet Drake, and q fine character he is. He seems like a fun older uncle type - on the surface. You don’t get to be a feared pirate by being a fun older uncle after all.
I have to admit I’m surprised we got this far into the book without much actually happening. Lots of setting the scene, which is fine, I’m not bored of it yet.
It’s kind of crazy that most of this book has taken place in the course of one day, and that day isn’t even over yet. Unless I’m gravely mistaken, 海斗 fell unconscious at dusk on the day he crossed over, and everything since he woke up has been within the same day. It feels like both a lot has happened, and nothing has really happened at all in that time. I’m looking forward to 海斗 learning more about self-defense and becoming a pirate, but I’m also beginning to think that won’t happen in this book.
The author gets a bit…wibbly-wobbly with time passing in this series. Taking this volume as an example, Kaito lands in (iirc) early spring or so in the 16th century, despite it being summer before he leaves. It’s evening when he leaves, but likely morning when he arrives (due to a section I’m not sure if the club has reached yet because I’m doing a terrible job of keeping up). He does pass out after Vicente finds him for an unknown length of time, but that probably wasn’t more than a couple of hours. Anyway, time does continue to pass on, but it’s fun to see just how shifted things get in just this first volume, haha.
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