Yeah military speech is always pretty hard but I was expecting Full metal Panic to focus much more on the day to day stuff of the characters' school lives so I was a little caught off guard. It's not unlikely the focus shifts that way as the story progresses though since at this point the main character has pretty much only just arrived there.
I'm about 2/3 of the way through ダンマチ now and I have to say I'm enjoying it quite a lot. It's certainly not anything deep but I do find the setting to be far more interesting than expected. There's a clear sense that the gods (both genders) are something greater than everyone else but just play at being normal people. There's a lot of room to explore how this society encompasses a group of immortals capable of doing (we're told) literally anything they want whenever they want, but don't because of rules they've agreed amongst themselves.
So far though the book has mostly focused on Bell, a young boy who recently became an adventurer, and his struggles to become stronger and reach the same level as the target of his infatuation, the "sword princess". The supporting cast is pretty much exclusively female and though that's a negative point for me it didn't feel too excessively haremy. I.e. It doesn't keep setting up echi accidents, but do expect to be constantly reminded that all women are beautiful (feminist propaganda lololol) and you may just want to skip over all the descriptions of their hair.
Difficulty wise it's pretty easy, but I'm still quite a way behind where I watched in the anime and it's my first time reading a Japanese book I already know the plot of so I'm not really sure how useful that impression is.
I'm about 2/3 of the way through ダンマチ now and I have to say I'm enjoying it quite a lot. It's certainly not anything deep but I do find the setting to be far more interesting than expected. There's a clear sense that the gods (both genders) are something greater than everyone else but just play at being normal people. There's a lot of room to explore how this society encompasses a group of immortals capable of doing (we're told) literally anything they want whenever they want, but don't because of rules they've agreed amongst themselves.
So far though the book has mostly focused on Bell, a young boy who recently became an adventurer, and his struggles to become stronger and reach the same level as the target of his infatuation, the "sword princess". The supporting cast is pretty much exclusively female and though that's a negative point for me it didn't feel too excessively haremy. I.e. It doesn't keep setting up echi accidents, but do expect to be constantly reminded that all women are beautiful (feminist propaganda lololol) and you may just want to skip over all the descriptions of their hair.
Difficulty wise it's pretty easy, but I'm still quite a way behind where I watched in the anime and it's my first time reading a Japanese book I already know the plot of so I'm not really sure how useful that impression is.
Aikynaro Wrote:I'm starting 雨ふる本屋 by 日向理恵子. Or restarting, rather - I attempted it quite a long time ago and found it too difficult. Now it's trivially easy, so obviously something is going right.Awesome! I love it when this happens.
Edited: 2015-05-30, 9:25 am