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I’m enjoying this so far. The premise sort of reminds me of Spirited Away, except instead of childhood innocence and magical whimsy there’s the crushing reality of being broke and homeless and the honestly reasonable interpretation of (my future job supervisor) = 中二病.
I did a bunch of googling because while I remember learning about the Ise Shrine in college back in the day I couldn’t visualize any of it, and this particular picture (https://www.isejingu.or.jp/en/img/i_p05.jpg) struck me as one that fits the prologue really well.
I hope we get to learn more about various deities in the upcoming chapters!
I read through the prologue last night; this was a fun beginning. I liked that it pretty quickly got the main character into the supernatural side of things. It definitely does kinda require the “doesn’t think ahead at all” aspect to make it work though I wonder if she gets to have days off to go back to the “real world”, or is going back and forth not that easy? Also, does Mei have absolutely no family at all that she could fall back on? I can’t remember if that was mentioned.
I forgot the exact wording, but it sounded like she ran away from home (week 1, so not a spoiler).
No reason was given, so it’s unclear if it would just be awkward to go back, or if there’s a deeper (darker) reason.
Mmm, on the first page it has 高校卒業とともに滋賀の実家を飛び出し、名古屋へやってきて三年。I just looked up 滋賀 and it’s the prefecture surrounding Lake Biwa, just west of Nagoya. So this isn’t even “other side of the country” and I guess we’re supposed to infer that they didn’t leave on friendly terms.
I’m late to the party, but I enjoyed reading the prologue. I read along with the audiobook and was able to read extensively, without any lookups. I like Mei so far and am curious to see what the story does in terms of character development and potential godly drama. I hope that this book will be fun enough that I can add the series into my rotation to replace かくりよの宿飯.
Despite how often I’ve been reading behind the club on this one, I’m also vaguely planning on reading along with the later books once we’re done with this one since the books are on KU and as far as I can tell the whole series has audiobooks. I smell a spinoff club in the air
Finally started listening to this. Can recommend the audiobook, narrator does a good job distinguishing the characters. Very easy listening - apart from a bit of specialised vocab regarding shrines/gods.
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I wonder if she gets to have days off to go back to the “real world”, or is going back and forth not that easy? Also, does Mei have absolutely no family at all that she could fall back on? I can’t remember if that was mentioned.
