Manga Thoughts: Minami Nanami wants to Shine 1

In this story-glutted age, being drawn on to a mere “spinoff” might say something about how its original work has impressed me. One more title seemed to qualify for that when I started taking some interest in licensing announcements for a manga featuring one of the high school girls in Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki. Minami “Mimimi” Nanami was introduced on the characters page of those novels as a “class clown”; she’s friendly and ebullient and laughs a lot, and she also got a bit “handsy” with some of her fellow girls early on. (I guess there’s a tension between how much interest I’ve taken in these translated “light novels” where I feel myself plodding through the novels of a different title that does seem at once similar yet more respectable. There’s also a tension to “staying interested in this stuff” to the point of forever not quite getting around to many other things in many ways more reputable. Of course, I have noticed certain cautions about trying to claim something as trivial as your choices in entertainment define you as respectable.)
( At this point in the novels, though... )