Post what you have read this past week (July 31 - August 6)
I’ve read COTE Y2V3 and Y2V4
They were great books. The special exam design was awesome and I also liked that it was covered in nearly 1000 pages, showing all kinds of different perspectives.
Now to the more spoilery and specific remarks:
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I was really looking forward to kiyotaka going all out in the second week to get first place. I was was kinda bummed out about the interferences leading to him not being able to follow his plan. It made sense though, there was no way Tsukishiro was going to let him do that.
Nanase was a mystery to me. They spent the whole first week together. She seemed to have endless capabilities. It was suggested before that she was the White Room agent. Their showdown in the mountains was awesome. Their fight and the leadup to it totally hooked me. What I thought was a bit weird is that before the reveal/fight it seemed like she was unbeatable, could do everything. But after the fight and their making up, she was portrayed way weaker, like a regular student. She’s no white room prodigy, but very fucking capable and strong overall. A huge player in the ability rankings.
I laughed so hard when kiyotaka just casually punched the lights out for Nagumo, leading to Koenji taking first place. Koenji has gotten way more mysterious for me instead of the opposite. He really seems to be superb in everything, except communication stuff and his attitude.
Horikita and Ibuki fighting Amasawa was great too. I thought it was unrealistic that their teamwork could nearly beat her if she really was a white room Agent. Her being brutally beaten before explained that. I wonder who beat her up like that though.
Overall, these two volumes were awesome and some of the best. I love the gradual character devilopmnets for everyone and Kiyotakas interest to help the other students mature.
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Just a heads up. You need to remove to leading 3 colons for the spoiler tag to work.
Not much reading for me this week. For the most part of the week, I did try Modern Villainess, but I didn’t really made much progress through it because the LN couldn’t grab me. Until the point where I dropped it, there was little to no actual story, just exposition-style setup of MC’s corporation with lots of financial jargon. I suppose there will come a point where there will be some character-driven storyline, but I had to accept that the LN just isn’t for me at some point and drop it.
I then grabbed Hell Mode vol. 6 but couldn’t finish it because BG3 happened.
Nice to see that you tried modern Villainess at least :)
It really isn’t a mainstream ln for sure. If you do didn’t enjoy the corporate setup, then I doubt you’d really enjoy it even when the story really starts.
I got vol. 3 laying around right now and will start once I finished COTE Y2V5
I give books I dropped usually another go after a while. Maybe I will have a better time getting into it then. Can I ask you whether or not there will be a more “normal story structure” later on?
Can you tell me how far you read and what happened? Not very detailed.
Been a while since I read them and my memory is a bit hazy.
But there will come a more normal type story that facilitates the worlds happenings.
It will stay with the financial jargon tho.
Also, can you tell me how I put spoiler tags in lemmy?
What I’ve read were almost only setup. Things like “my stand in bought bank X and we wrote it off to insure division Y. Ha, I saved the job of the son of my maid but I need to build up my foreign offshore account to save the economy. I guess I will have them buy up the other bank and have the bad debt moved to the government. Three done. I’m a genius!”. All this is mostly delivered by inner monologue or by the narrator. There were very little character interaction that wasn’t just implied. No dialogue between characters.
I do spoilers by marking the text in question and then clicking on the little exclamation mark in the triangle in the text field. The syntax written out it looks like this:
::: spoiler spoiler Text :::That will stay a big part of it.
She will have more dialogue with her school friends, which is partly about financial stuff due to their heritages, but also normal conversation, building up their characters and having slight character development. Other important characters will be introduced.
Now to the actual coming story. I will try to be as basic as I can. but for me the financial monologue stuff explaining what happens is actually the main appeal.
Very Basic plot points for vol 1 and 2
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Her Romanov bloodline will become more imortant. She may get kidnapped by someone. Her insane investments and net worth gain international fame, leading her to be under a lot of scrutiny by certain institutions. She will also gain another kind of fame.
Thanks. Next time I try it I’ll try to get to the story part at least.