From the Bookshelf: Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki Lv.3

Plodding through the twenty-second “A Certain Magical Index” light novel with all the ambiguities accumulated over twenty-one previous volumes not given up on without ever quite articulating a good reason why, I might have at least been able to look ahead to an impending instalment of a different translated series I’d found easier to read with real interest. When I managed to order that new book, though, I bought the ninth (regular) volume of “My Youth Romantic Comedy is Wrong, As I Expected” too, and thought I ought to get that additional purchase out of the way first. The reason why there, though, could well have been anticipating it feeling sort of slow going as well. While from the time I first started watching its anime adaptation “Oregairu” might have felt as close to “a set-in-the-real-world, originally-in-English” story as anime and its associated source material and spinoffs have ever got for me (even with a few of the secondary characters seeming a bit more “anime-familiar”), that might only have added something to an unfortunate sense of its full subtlety going a bit over my head. Still, once I’d got through it I could turn to the third volume of “Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki.”
( Questioning the rules )