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The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten Light Novel #1
The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, Vol. 1
A HEAVENLY ENCOUNTER!
Mahiru is a beautiful girl whose classmates all call her an “angel.” Not only is she a star athlete with perfect grades—she’s also drop-dead gorgeous. Amane‚ an average guy and self-admitted slob‚ has never thought much of the divine beauty‚ despite attending the same school. Everything changes‚ however‚ when he happens to see Mahiru sitting alone in a park during a rainstorm. Thus begins the strange relationship between this
incredibly unlikely pair!
Mahiru is a beautiful girl whose classmates all call her an “angel.” Not only is she a star athlete with perfect grades—she’s also drop-dead gorgeous. Amane‚ an average guy and self-admitted slob‚ has never thought much of the divine beauty‚ despite attending the same school. Everything changes‚ however‚ when he happens to see Mahiru sitting alone in a park during a rainstorm. Thus begins the strange relationship between this
incredibly unlikely pair!
220 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 13, 2019
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April 26, 2025
Cute and sweet, but VEEEERY slow burn. Definitely a “strangers to friends to more” plot. With lots of protecting one’s self via not being open with feelings, but not in an annoying or bad way. It’s a very natural progression. I believe IRL that love has a stronger foundation when it’s built on friendship. So this was in my wheelhouse.
The only thing I question is, do families in Japan REALLY let high schooled age teens live alone with little to no adult supervision to be closer to the school of their choice? I can see maybe a group home with adult chaperones or with a family member/family friend, but in a large apartment on their own? That’s GOT to be pricy in ANY market, let alone Japan’s!
So, while I understand the living arrangements directly drive the plot, it’s not believable to me.
3, sweet cute and gentle, but I couldn’t buy into the main premise, stars.
The only thing I question is, do families in Japan REALLY let high schooled age teens live alone with little to no adult supervision to be closer to the school of their choice? I can see maybe a group home with adult chaperones or with a family member/family friend, but in a large apartment on their own? That’s GOT to be pricy in ANY market, let alone Japan’s!
So, while I understand the living arrangements directly drive the plot, it’s not believable to me.
3, sweet cute and gentle, but I couldn’t buy into the main premise, stars.
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November 5, 2020
If you're looking for something sweet, gooey, and that leans heavily into gender stereotypes, then this is the book for you!
January 10, 2021
DNF'D at 77%
I was promised a light, fluffy romantic comedy. What I got instead was the most awkward relationship I've ever seen. Amane and Mahiru don't have much chemistry, and throughout the whole thing you have Amane going 'I don't particularly care' or 'it's not like I like her or anything'. They act so stiffly around each other.
It's hard to draw a line between a boy offering a girl an umbrella and said girl taking care of this inadequate human being. Amane makes some attempt to better himself, but mostly he just mooches off of Mahiru. Poor Mahiru. She's the only likeable character in this book, and this is what she gets. In the 170+ pages I read, I felt like I was missing something. I wanted to better understand her motivations.
Another thing that bothered me is that this book is weirdly...I don't know...gender stereotypical? It's very heteronormative (treating heterosexuality as if it's the only thing that exists). It was kind of uncomfortable to read, especially the chapter with Shihoko (a guy and a girl as just friends? perish the thought!).
But the worst thing about it all is that the writing is just bad. The book could've been half its current length, and we wouldn't have missed anything important. A lot of paragraphs are padded out.
It felt like a chore picking up this book, and that's when I knew I had to give up. I'm sorry that I couldn't complete it, and that I didn't have much good to say about it. I really did like Mahiru as a character, and there was potential. I think for now, I'll just have to admit defeat and revisit this later.
I was promised a light, fluffy romantic comedy. What I got instead was the most awkward relationship I've ever seen. Amane and Mahiru don't have much chemistry, and throughout the whole thing you have Amane going 'I don't particularly care' or 'it's not like I like her or anything'. They act so stiffly around each other.
It's hard to draw a line between a boy offering a girl an umbrella and said girl taking care of this inadequate human being. Amane makes some attempt to better himself, but mostly he just mooches off of Mahiru. Poor Mahiru. She's the only likeable character in this book, and this is what she gets. In the 170+ pages I read, I felt like I was missing something. I wanted to better understand her motivations.
Another thing that bothered me is that this book is weirdly...I don't know...gender stereotypical? It's very heteronormative (treating heterosexuality as if it's the only thing that exists). It was kind of uncomfortable to read, especially the chapter with Shihoko (a guy and a girl as just friends? perish the thought!).
But the worst thing about it all is that the writing is just bad. The book could've been half its current length, and we wouldn't have missed anything important. A lot of paragraphs are padded out.
It felt like a chore picking up this book, and that's when I knew I had to give up. I'm sorry that I couldn't complete it, and that I didn't have much good to say about it. I really did like Mahiru as a character, and there was potential. I think for now, I'll just have to admit defeat and revisit this later.
April 25, 2023
The tedium of the quotidian is rarely so self-satisfying as in stories in which the loser becomes the winner by sheer happenstance, but alas, readers of THE ANGEL NEXT DOOR SPOILS ME ROTTEN will find the insular nature of Amane's tale so tightly wound as to be insufferably plain. As a romantic comedy, the novel hits all the right notes and pivots around the necessary minimum of serviceable clichés. However, as a narrative worthy of sustaining reader interest, the book's overindulgent point-of-view and lack of setting diversity doom it to a less than favorable memory.
THE ANGEL NEXT DOOR… tracks one Amane Fujimiya, a lazy high-school student, slob, and generally below-average human. The young man happens across the school "angel," Mahiru Shiina, and pays forward a good deed when he realizes the girl is in a bind. Shiina is the prettiest girl in school, the smartest girl in school, the most demure girl in school; and yet, when Amane offers her his umbrella during an October rainstorm, the girl's heart suddenly yearns for more of this rare brand of loner kindness.
For Mahiru, it's lonesome at the top. And so when she discovers she can repay Amane's kindness by cooking him dinner, helping him clean and scrub his apartment, and generally help the slob get his life in order, the quiet and stone-faced "angel" leaps at the opportunity. Thus unstated is the girl's overwhelming desire to be desired, to be valued by someone whose priority in life is not, however paradoxically, to find someone of value.
For the most part, this book is straightforward. A boy and a girl on different ends of the social-capital spectrum meet, grow close to one another, grow dependent upon one another, and consequently question where their relationship is going thereafter. Little original occurs between the covers of THE ANGEL NEXT DOOR…; one can surmise, from the premise alone, the story's general trajectory. Regrettably, there are no surprises, confessions, or purposeful family dramas along the way. This isn't bad, per se, but the book's doddering simplicity pushes it failings closer to the fore.
The most obvious challenges for this book relate to the painfully obvious need for an experienced editor. To begin, the author uses a style that relies far too heavily on redundant phrasing, repetitive conjunctive vernacular, and generally poor scene control. The simplest way explain this is to note how, in almost every conversation, the author waits too long to exit the scene. That is to say, it's extraordinarily common for the narrator to craft a multi-sentence summary of the previous conversation or of a description of the chat's emotional context so as to provide an artificial means of closure.
For example, Chapter 12 opens with six or seven paragraphs retroactively informing readers that while Amane enjoys Mahiru's cooking, the young man isn't completely inept in the kitchen. Indeed, "Amane could make something if he really had to" (p. 163). This explication isn't entirely needed but it's not so bad. Overall, readers knew the protagonist was an oaf from the very beginning. The problem with this chapter's opening pages, structurally, comes with how the author forces transitional language to serve as the bridge between the novel's existing, and admittedly awkward, third-person limited (past tense) approach with the current scene's limited, first-person introspection. After articulating Amane's not-so-skilled kitchen exploits, readers are bludgeoned with over-explanation, as with: "It wasn't exactly cooking, but it was close enough, and it kept him fed" or "nobody would want to go back to such plain fare after sampling such delicious works of art" (p. 164).
The author spends far too much time telling readers things they already know and far too much time providing a redundant (false) framework to assess or reassess a scene's emotional viability. These false summary transitions typically include sentences contrived, at the translator's expense: "He was fully aware that" (p. 47), "Even though neither of them" (p. 53), "Even so, Amane knew" (p. 64), "Amane agreed with that" (p. 82), "In the end" (p. 83), "despite his usual reservations" (p. 121), "Amane had been wondering" (p. 149), "It had been easy enough to imagine" (p. 149), "but Amane never would've thought" (p. 149), "Thankfully, it was clear that" (p. 212), "It was obvious what" (p. 212). The author, in short, lingers in each scene several beats longer than is needed. This means one of two things: either the author doesn't trust oneself to write the scene correctly or the author and the editor don't trust readers to grasp the integrity of the scene itself. Neither speak to competent storytelling.
The book's lack of a competent secondary cast is also a problem. THE ANGEL NEXT DOOR…, understandably, emphasizes the budding relationship between Amane and Mahiru but engages the plot point to a rather unfortunate, logical extreme. For one, there are only two settings throughout the whole novel, three if one is picky (Amane's apartment, Amane's desk at school, and maybe the checkout line at the supermarket). These limited settings inhibit the protagonist from interacting with anyone beyond those specific environments. As such, the secondary cast is small. Further, the secondary cast, either wrought from these minutely scoped environments or from outside of and therefore alien to them, either consists of outright horrible characters or characters who are functionally useless.
To be blunt, all secondary characters in this novel are assholes. Amane's best friend and classmate, Itsuki, is a schmoozer and a fool. Itsuki's girlfriend, Chitose, is a chatterbox with no sense of personal space or individual responsibility. Amane's mother, Shihoko, is the worst; she's characterized as doting, but in truth she's an over-interested busybody with zero sense of trust, who exhibits little respect, and who entertains a grotesque lack of self-awareness. These characters are meant to frame the sweet-and-sour dynamic between a hapless nobody and the high-school angel?
The novel is freckled with more salient dynamics, such as Amane discovering the perfect neighbor girl is actually somewhat taciturn, dislikes praise, prefers silence to being social, and has a knack for speaking her mind the instant the spotlight is on somebody else ("There was a biting and honest side of her that she didn't show at school," p. 140). The boy's quest to pull Mahiru out of herself, enabling her to be more comfortable with herself, is a driving force of the novel.
If the author didn't spend the first half of the book overplaying the girl's grace and beauty, then perhaps this gradual transition would not have felt so tedious. THE ANGEL NEXT DOOR… harbors numerous echoes of the culturally implicit sexism of the yamato nadeshiko, when it proclaims, at length, Mahiru "really was the spitting image of an angel" (p. 51), how "anyone who saw her would've been captivated by the sight" (p. 121), "Mahiru was outrageously beautiful, after all" (p. 127), "She resembled a beautiful doll, completely devoid of feeling" (p. 149), and "Mahiru was much prettier than the glamorous models in the magazines" (p. 216). For as many times the narrator reiterates how Amane likes the girl "for her personality, not her appearance" (p. 140), the novel goes through extraordinary lengths to articulate the girls' appearance over her personality.
THE ANGEL NEXT DOOR SPOILS ME ROTTEN is an average novel with subpar situational dynamics and middling, drawn out character growth. Most scenes are wrought with talking heads and a redundant narrative structure because the author failed to invest any energy into setting the scene, describing its characters (and their gestures), or shifting the story toward (and therefore resolving) clever or unpredictable moments of conflict. The waffling sentiments native to blossoming teen romance appear wasted when dragged over the earth without much opportunity for difference, surprise, or wonder to take hold.
THE ANGEL NEXT DOOR… tracks one Amane Fujimiya, a lazy high-school student, slob, and generally below-average human. The young man happens across the school "angel," Mahiru Shiina, and pays forward a good deed when he realizes the girl is in a bind. Shiina is the prettiest girl in school, the smartest girl in school, the most demure girl in school; and yet, when Amane offers her his umbrella during an October rainstorm, the girl's heart suddenly yearns for more of this rare brand of loner kindness.
For Mahiru, it's lonesome at the top. And so when she discovers she can repay Amane's kindness by cooking him dinner, helping him clean and scrub his apartment, and generally help the slob get his life in order, the quiet and stone-faced "angel" leaps at the opportunity. Thus unstated is the girl's overwhelming desire to be desired, to be valued by someone whose priority in life is not, however paradoxically, to find someone of value.
For the most part, this book is straightforward. A boy and a girl on different ends of the social-capital spectrum meet, grow close to one another, grow dependent upon one another, and consequently question where their relationship is going thereafter. Little original occurs between the covers of THE ANGEL NEXT DOOR…; one can surmise, from the premise alone, the story's general trajectory. Regrettably, there are no surprises, confessions, or purposeful family dramas along the way. This isn't bad, per se, but the book's doddering simplicity pushes it failings closer to the fore.
The most obvious challenges for this book relate to the painfully obvious need for an experienced editor. To begin, the author uses a style that relies far too heavily on redundant phrasing, repetitive conjunctive vernacular, and generally poor scene control. The simplest way explain this is to note how, in almost every conversation, the author waits too long to exit the scene. That is to say, it's extraordinarily common for the narrator to craft a multi-sentence summary of the previous conversation or of a description of the chat's emotional context so as to provide an artificial means of closure.
For example, Chapter 12 opens with six or seven paragraphs retroactively informing readers that while Amane enjoys Mahiru's cooking, the young man isn't completely inept in the kitchen. Indeed, "Amane could make something if he really had to" (p. 163). This explication isn't entirely needed but it's not so bad. Overall, readers knew the protagonist was an oaf from the very beginning. The problem with this chapter's opening pages, structurally, comes with how the author forces transitional language to serve as the bridge between the novel's existing, and admittedly awkward, third-person limited (past tense) approach with the current scene's limited, first-person introspection. After articulating Amane's not-so-skilled kitchen exploits, readers are bludgeoned with over-explanation, as with: "It wasn't exactly cooking, but it was close enough, and it kept him fed" or "nobody would want to go back to such plain fare after sampling such delicious works of art" (p. 164).
The author spends far too much time telling readers things they already know and far too much time providing a redundant (false) framework to assess or reassess a scene's emotional viability. These false summary transitions typically include sentences contrived, at the translator's expense: "He was fully aware that" (p. 47), "Even though neither of them" (p. 53), "Even so, Amane knew" (p. 64), "Amane agreed with that" (p. 82), "In the end" (p. 83), "despite his usual reservations" (p. 121), "Amane had been wondering" (p. 149), "It had been easy enough to imagine" (p. 149), "but Amane never would've thought" (p. 149), "Thankfully, it was clear that" (p. 212), "It was obvious what" (p. 212). The author, in short, lingers in each scene several beats longer than is needed. This means one of two things: either the author doesn't trust oneself to write the scene correctly or the author and the editor don't trust readers to grasp the integrity of the scene itself. Neither speak to competent storytelling.
The book's lack of a competent secondary cast is also a problem. THE ANGEL NEXT DOOR…, understandably, emphasizes the budding relationship between Amane and Mahiru but engages the plot point to a rather unfortunate, logical extreme. For one, there are only two settings throughout the whole novel, three if one is picky (Amane's apartment, Amane's desk at school, and maybe the checkout line at the supermarket). These limited settings inhibit the protagonist from interacting with anyone beyond those specific environments. As such, the secondary cast is small. Further, the secondary cast, either wrought from these minutely scoped environments or from outside of and therefore alien to them, either consists of outright horrible characters or characters who are functionally useless.
To be blunt, all secondary characters in this novel are assholes. Amane's best friend and classmate, Itsuki, is a schmoozer and a fool. Itsuki's girlfriend, Chitose, is a chatterbox with no sense of personal space or individual responsibility. Amane's mother, Shihoko, is the worst; she's characterized as doting, but in truth she's an over-interested busybody with zero sense of trust, who exhibits little respect, and who entertains a grotesque lack of self-awareness. These characters are meant to frame the sweet-and-sour dynamic between a hapless nobody and the high-school angel?
The novel is freckled with more salient dynamics, such as Amane discovering the perfect neighbor girl is actually somewhat taciturn, dislikes praise, prefers silence to being social, and has a knack for speaking her mind the instant the spotlight is on somebody else ("There was a biting and honest side of her that she didn't show at school," p. 140). The boy's quest to pull Mahiru out of herself, enabling her to be more comfortable with herself, is a driving force of the novel.
If the author didn't spend the first half of the book overplaying the girl's grace and beauty, then perhaps this gradual transition would not have felt so tedious. THE ANGEL NEXT DOOR… harbors numerous echoes of the culturally implicit sexism of the yamato nadeshiko, when it proclaims, at length, Mahiru "really was the spitting image of an angel" (p. 51), how "anyone who saw her would've been captivated by the sight" (p. 121), "Mahiru was outrageously beautiful, after all" (p. 127), "She resembled a beautiful doll, completely devoid of feeling" (p. 149), and "Mahiru was much prettier than the glamorous models in the magazines" (p. 216). For as many times the narrator reiterates how Amane likes the girl "for her personality, not her appearance" (p. 140), the novel goes through extraordinary lengths to articulate the girls' appearance over her personality.
THE ANGEL NEXT DOOR SPOILS ME ROTTEN is an average novel with subpar situational dynamics and middling, drawn out character growth. Most scenes are wrought with talking heads and a redundant narrative structure because the author failed to invest any energy into setting the scene, describing its characters (and their gestures), or shifting the story toward (and therefore resolving) clever or unpredictable moments of conflict. The waffling sentiments native to blossoming teen romance appear wasted when dragged over the earth without much opportunity for difference, surprise, or wonder to take hold.
September 4, 2021
The best novel I've read The relationships between the characters are very beautiful and the story is beautiful and modern. It is the novel that I enjoyed reading the most and I have counted it more than once, knowing that I read the web version, and with pleasure I have been waiting for it for a long time, but in English, and the English version was finally downloaded.
November 27, 2021
Ko bik thế lực nào đã xui khiến tui mua quyển này nữa.
Truyện này viết cho con trai đọc à. Con nhỏ Mahiru này giống như hình mẫu lý tưởng trong mơ hơn là người thật: xinh đẹp tuyệt mĩ, học giỏi, mỏng manh íu ớt cần dc che chở, tiểu thư, dễ thưn đáng eo, nấu ăn ngon một cách khác thường, đảm đang tháo vát,... Đọc mấy đoạn description thấy giống tả một nhân vật 2D chứ ko phải con người bằng xương bằng thịt nên mình ko hảo lắm. Rất hoàn hảo nhưng lại chung chung thiếu cá tính. Nói chung từ đầu đến cuối chẳng có j tạo cảm giác chân thực hết ... Còn thằng Amane thì cá tính của nó chính là ko có j đặc biệt, chỉ đặc biệt ở chỗ là nó ko thích nhỏ này (thật ra là chưa thích thôi)
Mình thích chi tiết cái nhà thằng Amane luộm thuộm bừa bãi vì nó thật, giống cách sinh hoạt của một số đứa ctrai khi tụi nó sống 1 mình. Làm mình nghĩ ts lâu đài của Howl, kaka.
Đọc truyện này xong chợt nhận ra dù là con gái hay con trai j cũng cần 1 món ăn tinh thần kiểu thỏa mãn ước mong thầm kín, có 1 người hoàn hảo xuất chúng tự dưng quan tâm chăm sóc yêu thưn mình. Ko phải để ảo tưởng, nhưng mà đọc hoặc xem giải trí thì vui, tùy cốt truyện. Còn quyển này vs mình thì ko hay, ko vui cũng ko giải trí, vì mình ko phải con trai, ko ấn tượng j con nhỏ thiên sứ Mahiru này vì nó ko có cá tính, trong khi mấy độc gỉa nam xếp hàng để mua cho bằng dc bản có poster của Mahiru :| Nói chung ai con gái mà có ý định hẹn hò hoặc kết hôn thì đọc có thể bik dc ctrai thích hình mẫu phụ nữ ntn, nhìn chung là có những phẩm chất gì. Đương nhiên mỗi ng mỗi gu, nhưng có thể đúc kết dc vài cái chắc ai cũng thích: cử chỉ hành động duyên dáng dễ thưn, biết chăm chút bản thân và chăm sóc ng khác, nấu ăn ngon và chịu nấu cho ăn, mới đầu hơi khép nép e dè tí, chăm chỉ tháo vát, đẹp nữa càng tốt ✌ cụ thể hơn mời đọc.
Đó là nói về nhân vật. Còn cốt truyện thì chán thôi luôn. Chem giữa 2 đứa hoàn toàn ko có, tụi nó bên nhau cứ ngại ngùng cứng nhắc sao sao, ko thấy tự nhiên thoải mái. Rom-com mà hài ko hài lãng mạn cũng ko lãng mạn. Bà mẹ Amane cũng dô diên nựa.
Tui ko đọc nhìu light novel ngoài 2 bộ Hyouka và Cô gái văn chương, ko mê nhưng ko drop tập nào. Bộ này thì chắc chắn ko đọc típ tập 2. Nói chung nó ko tệ lắm nhưng đọc thấy sượng sùng khó chịu quá.
Truyện này viết cho con trai đọc à. Con nhỏ Mahiru này giống như hình mẫu lý tưởng trong mơ hơn là người thật: xinh đẹp tuyệt mĩ, học giỏi, mỏng manh íu ớt cần dc che chở, tiểu thư, dễ thưn đáng eo, nấu ăn ngon một cách khác thường, đảm đang tháo vát,... Đọc mấy đoạn description thấy giống tả một nhân vật 2D chứ ko phải con người bằng xương bằng thịt nên mình ko hảo lắm. Rất hoàn hảo nhưng lại chung chung thiếu cá tính. Nói chung từ đầu đến cuối chẳng có j tạo cảm giác chân thực hết ... Còn thằng Amane thì cá tính của nó chính là ko có j đặc biệt, chỉ đặc biệt ở chỗ là nó ko thích nhỏ này (thật ra là chưa thích thôi)
Mình thích chi tiết cái nhà thằng Amane luộm thuộm bừa bãi vì nó thật, giống cách sinh hoạt của một số đứa ctrai khi tụi nó sống 1 mình. Làm mình nghĩ ts lâu đài của Howl, kaka.
Đọc truyện này xong chợt nhận ra dù là con gái hay con trai j cũng cần 1 món ăn tinh thần kiểu thỏa mãn ước mong thầm kín, có 1 người hoàn hảo xuất chúng tự dưng quan tâm chăm sóc yêu thưn mình. Ko phải để ảo tưởng, nhưng mà đọc hoặc xem giải trí thì vui, tùy cốt truyện. Còn quyển này vs mình thì ko hay, ko vui cũng ko giải trí, vì mình ko phải con trai, ko ấn tượng j con nhỏ thiên sứ Mahiru này vì nó ko có cá tính, trong khi mấy độc gỉa nam xếp hàng để mua cho bằng dc bản có poster của Mahiru :| Nói chung ai con gái mà có ý định hẹn hò hoặc kết hôn thì đọc có thể bik dc ctrai thích hình mẫu phụ nữ ntn, nhìn chung là có những phẩm chất gì. Đương nhiên mỗi ng mỗi gu, nhưng có thể đúc kết dc vài cái chắc ai cũng thích: cử chỉ hành động duyên dáng dễ thưn, biết chăm chút bản thân và chăm sóc ng khác, nấu ăn ngon và chịu nấu cho ăn, mới đầu hơi khép nép e dè tí, chăm chỉ tháo vát, đẹp nữa càng tốt ✌ cụ thể hơn mời đọc.
Đó là nói về nhân vật. Còn cốt truyện thì chán thôi luôn. Chem giữa 2 đứa hoàn toàn ko có, tụi nó bên nhau cứ ngại ngùng cứng nhắc sao sao, ko thấy tự nhiên thoải mái. Rom-com mà hài ko hài lãng mạn cũng ko lãng mạn. Bà mẹ Amane cũng dô diên nựa.
Tui ko đọc nhìu light novel ngoài 2 bộ Hyouka và Cô gái văn chương, ko mê nhưng ko drop tập nào. Bộ này thì chắc chắn ko đọc típ tập 2. Nói chung nó ko tệ lắm nhưng đọc thấy sượng sùng khó chịu quá.
September 21, 2023
*review for entire series*
think of two of the most oblivious people in the world and multiply that by 56286. these main characters are actually BLIND to the others feelings it’s so fkn funny
think of two of the most oblivious people in the world and multiply that by 56286. these main characters are actually BLIND to the others feelings it’s so fkn funny
September 10, 2024
"Something clicked when Amane thought of the unusual encounter that way. Her expression had been exactly that of a lost little kid searching for their parent."
The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten Vol.1
By Saekisan
After watching the anime, I just had to start the light novel. It was too sweet to let go. The first few volumes have been adapted, but the rest haven't, and the next season hasn't been announced. It is a perfect opportunity to start reading.
This volume was the introduction to the story, a super sweet and diabetic story to tell the truth. The whole story is told in a span of 2 months and in a slow but calm manner. Is this realistic? Nope, does it play on the gender stereotypes? Yes, is it enjoyable? Absolutely.
Aname and Mahiru's character are great and can not wait for more development. The anime had me hooked, and the same goes for the light novel. Chi's character is goated, a perfect example of a Chaotic friend who lives up the series.
7.5/10
The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten Vol.1
By Saekisan
After watching the anime, I just had to start the light novel. It was too sweet to let go. The first few volumes have been adapted, but the rest haven't, and the next season hasn't been announced. It is a perfect opportunity to start reading.
This volume was the introduction to the story, a super sweet and diabetic story to tell the truth. The whole story is told in a span of 2 months and in a slow but calm manner. Is this realistic? Nope, does it play on the gender stereotypes? Yes, is it enjoyable? Absolutely.
Aname and Mahiru's character are great and can not wait for more development. The anime had me hooked, and the same goes for the light novel. Chi's character is goated, a perfect example of a Chaotic friend who lives up the series.
7.5/10
September 7, 2022
Nội dung mô típ romcom, thanh xuân vườn trường quá quen thuộc luôn.
Thực sự cuốn LN này ko hợp với nx người ko thích sự sến súa, tình yêu ngây thơ của trẻ con đâu mà phù hợp với những người kiểu ko có người yêu nè rồi cuộc sống học tập quá bí đát, bạn bè có bồ còn mình thì ko nè,....=)))
Bởi nội dung chỉ xoay quanh việc 2 đứa thích tự lập tránh xa gia đình rồi tình cờ nhà ở cạnh nhau thôi. Có drama gì thì cx chỉ ở chỗ qk main và gđ nu9. Rât vanilla, heeling tâm hồn :)
Mà cx ndung cx ảo thật sự, làm gì có thanh niên nào bỏ nhà sống một mình, ko biết nấu ăn giặt đồ xong đc gái xinh nhất trường đến yêu thương, vồ về, chăm sóc các kiểu đâu =)))
Thực sự cuốn LN này ko hợp với nx người ko thích sự sến súa, tình yêu ngây thơ của trẻ con đâu mà phù hợp với những người kiểu ko có người yêu nè rồi cuộc sống học tập quá bí đát, bạn bè có bồ còn mình thì ko nè,....=)))
Bởi nội dung chỉ xoay quanh việc 2 đứa thích tự lập tránh xa gia đình rồi tình cờ nhà ở cạnh nhau thôi. Có drama gì thì cx chỉ ở chỗ qk main và gđ nu9. Rât vanilla, heeling tâm hồn :)
Mà cx ndung cx ảo thật sự, làm gì có thanh niên nào bỏ nhà sống một mình, ko biết nấu ăn giặt đồ xong đc gái xinh nhất trường đến yêu thương, vồ về, chăm sóc các kiểu đâu =)))
March 11, 2025
This romance is very slow, and remains slow. However despite the pace things don't remain in a constant flux of, "Will they? won't they?" Forever, like how some other romances tend to be.
No out of pocket childhood friends, no new transfer students. It's just about a lonely, distrustful, yet selfishly caring boy and a popular, untouchable, and lonely girl.
Throughout the series you will see how they both provide for each other while struggling with the fear and guilt of starting to love someone that you cherish.
No out of pocket childhood friends, no new transfer students. It's just about a lonely, distrustful, yet selfishly caring boy and a popular, untouchable, and lonely girl.
Throughout the series you will see how they both provide for each other while struggling with the fear and guilt of starting to love someone that you cherish.
January 24, 2022
The Angel Next Door is the perfect comfort story about a slowly budding romance between the two unaware main characters. It’s cute and cozy descriptions and dialogue made this a very heartwarming read that I can’t help but recommend. Watching these two characters grow and change together was a delight. I’m hoping to see some more progress and development in the next volume !
July 26, 2022
Lượng đường trong quyển này cao thật đấy, ngọt đến rụng cả răng. Thật mừng vì mình đã chọn đọc bộ truyện này :3
February 27, 2021
藤宮周は高校一年生になって、一人暮らしの生活が始まりました。だが、彼は全く料理や掃除や家事ができないです。そのせいで、彼のアパートはとても汚いて、毎日で、コンビニの食べ物を食えます。流石に、この生活は彼の健康に悪影響がありました。けど、ある日突然、この不健康な生活は終わりました。何故なら、「天使」に会いました。正確に、天使じゃなくて、天使ように美少女です。彼女の名前は椎名真昼です。彼女は優等生で、優秀の選手です。当然、彼女は一番人気学生です。周は陰キャラとして、彼はこの完璧人にあまり関わらないです。
けど、この日、とても激しい雨がありました。当然に、周は傘が使って帰ります。途中で、周は彼女が見ました。ブランコが座って傘が持ったないで彼女は雨に濡れました。捨てる犬ように、彼女が寂しい視線がありました。結果として周が彼女に観て瞬間にどうしても放っとけができないです。彼が彼女に傘を渡って家まで、走りました。けど結果として、酷い風邪が引きしまいました。そして、真昼は隣人ですので、彼女は彼に看病しました。で、彼の汚い部屋が見たま今した。彼女は彼に「なんでこれで生活できるのですか？」。そう、あの日から、彼の不健康な生活を変わるつつに、陰キャラと一番人気者の関係の幕を開けました。
とても優しくて甘い雰囲気な小説でした！彼らの性格は大反対ですが、彼らは互い分かって関係は徐々に深くになります。例えば、最初に彼らはただ隣人です。ただ互いに他人です。しかし、互いに助けって支えるので、親睦の雰囲気が発生しました。決まり文句かもしりませんが、このストーリーは素晴らしいです。現実的ように、関係に深くになりたいに、時間が必要です。そう、時間があれば、親友や恋人の関係になる事は高い可能性です。
その点のおかげで、僕は夢中にこの小説を読みました。ニコニコながら、彼らの関係はとても楽しみました！この二人の幸せになりますように〜と思いました。興味があれば、ぜひ読んでください！
Amane Fujimiya started living alone when he became a first-year high school student. However, he can't cook, clean, or even do any house chores at all. Because of that, he eats convenience store food every day, and his apartment is filthy. Of course, this lifestyle has a negative effect on his health. However, one day, his unhealthy lifestyle suddenly ends. It's all because he meets an "angel." To be more precise, she's not really an "angel," but an angel-like pretty girl, whose name is Mahiru Shiina. She's an honor student and a top athlete. So, naturally, she's the most popular student in the school. So, as a nobody, Amane doesn't interact with this perfect person very much.
However, on that day, the rain was fierce. So, naturally, Amane uses an umbrella to go home. On the way there, he sees Mahiru. Sitting on top of a swing without an umbrella, she kept getting wet by the rain. Like an abandoned puppy, she had a lonely look on her face. So, the moment that he sees her, he couldn't leave her alone. He gives her his umbrella and runs all the way home. However, as a result, he catches a severe cold. Then, since Mahiru is his neighbor, she nurses him back to health. There, she sees his dirty room. She comments by saying: "How in the world can you live like this?" Yes, from that day forward, Amane's lifestyle changes while the relationship between a nobody and the most popular person starts.
This was a very gentle and sweet novel! Their personalities are the exact opposites, but as they mutually begin to understand each other, their relationship gradually deepens. For example, at first, they are simply neighbors, purely strangers. However, as they help and support each other, they start to create an amiable mood between the two of them. It may be cliche, but the story was very wonderful. Realistically, time is needed to deepen relationships. Given time, it may even become a wonderful friendship or, perhaps a lovers' relationship.
Thanks to this point, I immersed myself deeply in this book. As I was grinning, I enjoyed their relationship a lot! I even thought that I wanted these two to be happy in the future~. If you are interested, please read it!
けど、この日、とても激しい雨がありました。当然に、周は傘が使って帰ります。途中で、周は彼女が見ました。ブランコが座って傘が持ったないで彼女は雨に濡れました。捨てる犬ように、彼女が寂しい視線がありました。結果として周が彼女に観て瞬間にどうしても放っとけができないです。彼が彼女に傘を渡って家まで、走りました。けど結果として、酷い風邪が引きしまいました。そして、真昼は隣人ですので、彼女は彼に看病しました。で、彼の汚い部屋が見たま今した。彼女は彼に「なんでこれで生活できるのですか？」。そう、あの日から、彼の不健康な生活を変わるつつに、陰キャラと一番人気者の関係の幕を開けました。
とても優しくて甘い雰囲気な小説でした！彼らの性格は大反対ですが、彼らは互い分かって関係は徐々に深くになります。例えば、最初に彼らはただ隣人です。ただ互いに他人です。しかし、互いに助けって支えるので、親睦の雰囲気が発生しました。決まり文句かもしりませんが、このストーリーは素晴らしいです。現実的ように、関係に深くになりたいに、時間が必要です。そう、時間があれば、親友や恋人の関係になる事は高い可能性です。
その点のおかげで、僕は夢中にこの小説を読みました。ニコニコながら、彼らの関係はとても楽しみました！この二人の幸せになりますように〜と思いました。興味があれば、ぜひ読んでください！
Amane Fujimiya started living alone when he became a first-year high school student. However, he can't cook, clean, or even do any house chores at all. Because of that, he eats convenience store food every day, and his apartment is filthy. Of course, this lifestyle has a negative effect on his health. However, one day, his unhealthy lifestyle suddenly ends. It's all because he meets an "angel." To be more precise, she's not really an "angel," but an angel-like pretty girl, whose name is Mahiru Shiina. She's an honor student and a top athlete. So, naturally, she's the most popular student in the school. So, as a nobody, Amane doesn't interact with this perfect person very much.
However, on that day, the rain was fierce. So, naturally, Amane uses an umbrella to go home. On the way there, he sees Mahiru. Sitting on top of a swing without an umbrella, she kept getting wet by the rain. Like an abandoned puppy, she had a lonely look on her face. So, the moment that he sees her, he couldn't leave her alone. He gives her his umbrella and runs all the way home. However, as a result, he catches a severe cold. Then, since Mahiru is his neighbor, she nurses him back to health. There, she sees his dirty room. She comments by saying: "How in the world can you live like this?" Yes, from that day forward, Amane's lifestyle changes while the relationship between a nobody and the most popular person starts.
This was a very gentle and sweet novel! Their personalities are the exact opposites, but as they mutually begin to understand each other, their relationship gradually deepens. For example, at first, they are simply neighbors, purely strangers. However, as they help and support each other, they start to create an amiable mood between the two of them. It may be cliche, but the story was very wonderful. Realistically, time is needed to deepen relationships. Given time, it may even become a wonderful friendship or, perhaps a lovers' relationship.
Thanks to this point, I immersed myself deeply in this book. As I was grinning, I enjoyed their relationship a lot! I even thought that I wanted these two to be happy in the future~. If you are interested, please read it!
September 12, 2021
Read 3 chapters, dropped, retried it and skimmed through beginning half ish, then finished it while skimming. I don't like it much because it has a lot of the female protagonist pampering the male protagonist, and I don't think the male protagonist does much to deserve any of her kindness (yes he gives her an umbrella when it's raining, but that's a very minor act of kindness and not actually too big a deal, plus he was too lazy to properly take care of himself and warm up after getting back, which got him sick - it just seems incompetent to me).
I did like the latter half of the book a bit more with the two bonding, but it still irks me how much she takes care of him, making food and cleaning for him, while he doesn't strive to do much (yes, he tries to learn to cook, but it isn't much). It just reeks of wish fulfillment in my opinion, and it doesn't make a very pleasurable read when the main character is so undeserving.
"How to Melt an Ice Queen" has a similar premise of next door classmates who gradually bond, but I liked that much more because in that one, it felt like a fairer exchange - the male character was the one who could cook and help take care of the female, who was mainly only good at studying and tutoring, and I enjoyed that much more.
Anyway, that said, I did start V2 of Angel Next Door as well, but I stopped partway in the beginning. I'm unsure if I'll continue, but I might. Overall, I think this light novel is pretty overrated and haven't enjoyed it a ton. I suppose I'll see. Another irk of the V1 was the mother jumping to conclusions of the friend, and I think the main character hiding her was unnecessary instead of just telling the truth. To be honest, the main character comes off as rather rude at times, with words like "shut up" and such too in his attitude.
I did like the latter half of the book a bit more with the two bonding, but it still irks me how much she takes care of him, making food and cleaning for him, while he doesn't strive to do much (yes, he tries to learn to cook, but it isn't much). It just reeks of wish fulfillment in my opinion, and it doesn't make a very pleasurable read when the main character is so undeserving.
"How to Melt an Ice Queen" has a similar premise of next door classmates who gradually bond, but I liked that much more because in that one, it felt like a fairer exchange - the male character was the one who could cook and help take care of the female, who was mainly only good at studying and tutoring, and I enjoyed that much more.
Anyway, that said, I did start V2 of Angel Next Door as well, but I stopped partway in the beginning. I'm unsure if I'll continue, but I might. Overall, I think this light novel is pretty overrated and haven't enjoyed it a ton. I suppose I'll see. Another irk of the V1 was the mother jumping to conclusions of the friend, and I think the main character hiding her was unnecessary instead of just telling the truth. To be honest, the main character comes off as rather rude at times, with words like "shut up" and such too in his attitude.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 29, 2022
We have a totally useless male character constantly telling us how beautiful his neighbor is. And, the neighbor who is supposedly accomplished in athletics and academics but can only be validated when said useless male compliments her cooking. I mean, at least watch a youtube video on proper veggie prep so you can pitch in if your neighbor volunteers to come over and cook for you, Amane, you putz! And, you did not just tell a girl she should smile more did you, you asshat! The regurgitation of dialog into description typical of light novels is all the more annoying when the characters are so poorly constructed and the story so feeble. Not recommended.
December 20, 2020
Cute and fun first volume, I hope the author can keep up this level of quality for the series going forward.
February 28, 2021
It was really excellent, among all the LNs that I have read so far, only one pleased me as much as this one from the first volume. And today it is my favorite work. I look forward to the next volume
March 3, 2022
Anyone who knows me or reads my reviews can confidently say I’m a sucker for squishy, fuzzy, adorable romance. The sappier and funnier the setup, the better! When I saw that The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten (Otonari no Tenshi-sama ni Itsunomanika Dame Ningen ni Sareteita Ken) was getting an anime adaptation, I wanted to read the light novel(s) before it hit my screen — and I discovered one of my new favorite romance reads!
The first you need to know is that The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten is the very definition of a slow-burn, with characters who are utterly oblivious to their own feelings. The main character, fifteen-year-old Amane, has been living out of home since he started high-school and has so far been surviving…poorly. His class’s so-called “Angel,” a beautiful girl named Mahiru, happens to live next door to him — but Amane acknowledges Mahiru is completely out of his league.
Despite this light novel very obviously being a romance, the characters don’t engage with each other in that manner. Their friendship begins with a chance encounter in the rain, leading to Amane getting sick and being cared for by Mahiru; after discovering how slovenly his lives, Mahiru takes it upon herself to help Amane clean up his life, bringing him home-cooked meals every day.
Food plays a huge role in The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten. “Make sure you grab anyone who makes you happy by the stomach,” Mahiru says late in the volume, and that’s very true here. The entirety of this first volume is a simple slice-of-life about a young high school boy and the ‘angel’ who enters his life, giving him food and companionship.
Of course there are plenty of cute moments that are totally leading towards a relationship, but that’s absolutely not the focus for Amane. He repeatedly expresses that he thinks Mahiru is beautiful and cute, but he values her friendship more than taking a risk on a relationship. For Mahiru, she’s always been idolised and approached by every boy in the school, so she seeks shelter in having a male friend who doesn’t want to hit on her.
Ultimately this creates a wonderfully adorable story focused entirely on Amane and Mahiru, with a few interactions at school or with Amane’s friends (and crazy, controlling mother!) This is very much a slice-of-life, and that’s exactly how this novel should be. There’s nothing to fault here, although obviously it’s very focused on the “young love” aspect, but that’s to be expected of a light novel focused so intensely around young teenagers.
I love this novel so much, I ordered the next two in the series the moment I finished the first!
The first you need to know is that The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten is the very definition of a slow-burn, with characters who are utterly oblivious to their own feelings. The main character, fifteen-year-old Amane, has been living out of home since he started high-school and has so far been surviving…poorly. His class’s so-called “Angel,” a beautiful girl named Mahiru, happens to live next door to him — but Amane acknowledges Mahiru is completely out of his league.
Despite this light novel very obviously being a romance, the characters don’t engage with each other in that manner. Their friendship begins with a chance encounter in the rain, leading to Amane getting sick and being cared for by Mahiru; after discovering how slovenly his lives, Mahiru takes it upon herself to help Amane clean up his life, bringing him home-cooked meals every day.
Food plays a huge role in The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten. “Make sure you grab anyone who makes you happy by the stomach,” Mahiru says late in the volume, and that’s very true here. The entirety of this first volume is a simple slice-of-life about a young high school boy and the ‘angel’ who enters his life, giving him food and companionship.
Of course there are plenty of cute moments that are totally leading towards a relationship, but that’s absolutely not the focus for Amane. He repeatedly expresses that he thinks Mahiru is beautiful and cute, but he values her friendship more than taking a risk on a relationship. For Mahiru, she’s always been idolised and approached by every boy in the school, so she seeks shelter in having a male friend who doesn’t want to hit on her.
Ultimately this creates a wonderfully adorable story focused entirely on Amane and Mahiru, with a few interactions at school or with Amane’s friends (and crazy, controlling mother!) This is very much a slice-of-life, and that’s exactly how this novel should be. There’s nothing to fault here, although obviously it’s very focused on the “young love” aspect, but that’s to be expected of a light novel focused so intensely around young teenagers.
I love this novel so much, I ordered the next two in the series the moment I finished the first!
June 4, 2025
There are some novels that challenge you -- either by subverting your expectations, or by dense prose full of emotional nuance, or perhaps by structurally presenting a situation that fills you with tension and drives you to read it to see how it resolves.
This is not that kind of book.
This is a slow-burn slice-of-life between two high school students (Amane and Mahiru) that are neighbors. He is mostly perfect, except for self-esteem issues. She is mostly perfect, except for narcolepsy that causes her to fall asleep at opportune plot moments. Per light novel convention, the parents are absent -- both characters live alone.
He thinks "She could never like me" as she drops clues and hints all over the place. He expends considerable effort justifying why those clues and hints don't mean anything.
They have some friends that are supportive and quirky. There is sometimes a hint of drama, but it is quickly resolved. Despite the original being in Japanese, it reads very clearly and with not a lot of nuance -- it could almost have been written in English with Japanese foods sprinkled in.
If you're looking for deep symbolism or metaphor, you will not find it in this book. It has been replaced by blushes and thoughts about head patting.
Sometimes you don't want to be challenged. Sometimes you just want something simple and not demanding, where you know the two MCs will get together without complicated love triangles or drama. This is a good book for those times.
This is not that kind of book.
This is a slow-burn slice-of-life between two high school students (Amane and Mahiru) that are neighbors. He is mostly perfect, except for self-esteem issues. She is mostly perfect, except for narcolepsy that causes her to fall asleep at opportune plot moments. Per light novel convention, the parents are absent -- both characters live alone.
He thinks "She could never like me" as she drops clues and hints all over the place. He expends considerable effort justifying why those clues and hints don't mean anything.
They have some friends that are supportive and quirky. There is sometimes a hint of drama, but it is quickly resolved. Despite the original being in Japanese, it reads very clearly and with not a lot of nuance -- it could almost have been written in English with Japanese foods sprinkled in.
If you're looking for deep symbolism or metaphor, you will not find it in this book. It has been replaced by blushes and thoughts about head patting.
Sometimes you don't want to be challenged. Sometimes you just want something simple and not demanding, where you know the two MCs will get together without complicated love triangles or drama. This is a good book for those times.
January 10, 2023
2022 was a weird year. After cancer and my divorce, a cute, slow burn, adorable slice of life romance was just what the doctor ordered. Enter The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten.
This is pretty good fluff romance stuff, with a few minor issues. The protagonist is portrayed as aloof and sort of withdrawn from everyone but his best friend, the guy's girlfriend, and eventually the aforementioned Angel. And even when. He begins to open up to her a bit in private, and she starts showing signs of interest in him beyond cooking for him (as he is abysmally helpless when it comes to the art of meal creation) and helping him get his life in order, he's still scared of letting her know his feelings, as he feels so far beneath her as to be unreachable.
At some point, the dude has to read the room, right? But it's a common, and relatable, feeling for anyone who's had a crush on the school princess, and felt themselves so far removed from them that shooting their shot would end in ridicule from the girl, their peers, and certain ostracization for the rest of their school life.
Still, the characters are well written, the situations, while a little far fetched in the west, are relatable, and the story seems to be headed in the right direction.
This is pretty good fluff romance stuff, with a few minor issues. The protagonist is portrayed as aloof and sort of withdrawn from everyone but his best friend, the guy's girlfriend, and eventually the aforementioned Angel. And even when. He begins to open up to her a bit in private, and she starts showing signs of interest in him beyond cooking for him (as he is abysmally helpless when it comes to the art of meal creation) and helping him get his life in order, he's still scared of letting her know his feelings, as he feels so far beneath her as to be unreachable.
At some point, the dude has to read the room, right? But it's a common, and relatable, feeling for anyone who's had a crush on the school princess, and felt themselves so far removed from them that shooting their shot would end in ridicule from the girl, their peers, and certain ostracization for the rest of their school life.
Still, the characters are well written, the situations, while a little far fetched in the west, are relatable, and the story seems to be headed in the right direction.
August 19, 2025
Amane Fujimiya is a 1st year high schooler living alone. He is also a bit of a slob so his apartment is a mess, but he has a good heart. One day on the way home he sees a schoolmate of his, Mahiru Shiina, just sitting in on a swing in the rain, so he gives her his umbrella and runs home. Since he did not warm up from getting drenched, he came down with a cold the next day. When he drudged his way home from school, he found Shiina waiting for him with his umbrella. Seeing the shape he was in she forced him to go to bed while she prepared him rice congee and provided him medicine. It turns out she is his neighbor also living . Over time she bullied him into cleaning up his apartment and then started in on his diet. It started with her giving him prepared food and then they ended up with her coming to his apartment and cooking there. In school, they were almost strangers, but at their apartment, they were slowly coming to rely on each other. It will be interesting to see how this develops! Luckily, I have several volumes in hand!
August 4, 2025
Quería darle 3.5 estrellas, pero parece que no puede hacerse(? O al menos no desde la app del teléfono.
Esta historia es completamente slow-burn, con personajes que podríamos considerar "típicos" y/o cotidianos; digo, ¿quién no fue o tuvo una compañera que parecía hacer todo bien? ¿O quién no fue o tuvo un compañero demasiado flojo como para preocuparse por sí mismo?
La manera en que ambos personajes se involucran y cómo avanza su relación encuentro que es muy natural y orgánico. No se siente forzado; es lento, encantador y seguro. No sé cuántas veces me sonreí de amor y/o ternura.
Sé que una de las mayores quejas es por qué dos adolescentes están casualmente viviendo solos, "sin supervisión" familiar, pero como vengo de ver el anime sé que más adelante explican el porqué; ahora, queda en cada quien si la razón les convence o no.
Recomendado para quienes disfruten un amor encantador e inocente, que cuida el espacio personal de los involucrados, y que es lento pero seguro.
Esta historia es completamente slow-burn, con personajes que podríamos considerar "típicos" y/o cotidianos; digo, ¿quién no fue o tuvo una compañera que parecía hacer todo bien? ¿O quién no fue o tuvo un compañero demasiado flojo como para preocuparse por sí mismo?
La manera en que ambos personajes se involucran y cómo avanza su relación encuentro que es muy natural y orgánico. No se siente forzado; es lento, encantador y seguro. No sé cuántas veces me sonreí de amor y/o ternura.
Sé que una de las mayores quejas es por qué dos adolescentes están casualmente viviendo solos, "sin supervisión" familiar, pero como vengo de ver el anime sé que más adelante explican el porqué; ahora, queda en cada quien si la razón les convence o no.
Recomendado para quienes disfruten un amor encantador e inocente, que cuida el espacio personal de los involucrados, y que es lento pero seguro.
July 31, 2021
Fortunate finding
I stumbled upon this light novel because Amazon suggested it. I read a lot of light novels but usually go for action and comedy ones.
This is a romantic comedy that I thought was going to be like others and I will read one volume and not look back because it was overly sweet and fast paced. Something like:
Chapter 1 main character boy meets main character girl.
Chapter 2 the main characters are a couple now.
Rest of the book lots of honey is spread all over the world they live in.
Instead this is a slow book. By the end of this first volume they are still "just friends" but they are more confortable with each other and showing that there may be something else there... Something I want to see and thus I will keep reading this series until I see them admit it.
I stumbled upon this light novel because Amazon suggested it. I read a lot of light novels but usually go for action and comedy ones.
This is a romantic comedy that I thought was going to be like others and I will read one volume and not look back because it was overly sweet and fast paced. Something like:
Chapter 1 main character boy meets main character girl.
Chapter 2 the main characters are a couple now.
Rest of the book lots of honey is spread all over the world they live in.
Instead this is a slow book. By the end of this first volume they are still "just friends" but they are more confortable with each other and showing that there may be something else there... Something I want to see and thus I will keep reading this series until I see them admit it.
April 2, 2022
This was much better than I anticipated it to be based on the title. It's a book that's positively frothing with fluffiness. It's really slow-burn and most of the time the main characters are simply conversing with each other but that's exactly what makes the book so great. The budding romance that you read between their conversations and their friends and family that are snickering in the sidelines at their cuteness just makes this so warm and fuzzy. And even though this is technically a light novel, it has moments of depth too. Our main characters both have some darkness in their pasts that are slowly but surely being healed with each other. There's no awkward pervertedness in this tale. It's just a pure-hearted tale of young love.
July 7, 2023
I read this a few months ago but didn't think to log it on good reads. I found out about this series from the winter/spring anime seasons and to my surprise fell in love with it. The normal manga/anime romance tropes aren't present here which was a breath of fresh air. It's simply two young mature(ish) people falling in love and how it changes their lives and those around them lives for the better. Really is an enjoyable series and honestly never would have seen myself reading/watching it and really having a good time. Made me realize not all manga, light novels and anime romance is will they won't they with no resolution ever in sight like I personally usually see in these two forms of media.
November 23, 2022
I don't read romance stories often. Actually, I don't go out of my way to find them. But I finished Spice & Wolf so better to keep the train going. I found this series because the anime is airing next year.
I'll be honest: it's a slow burn. Coming off of a high action series, it took a whie to adjust to the pacing and the characters. Speaking of characters, they started off basic but I enjoyed their dynamic.
If you're into slow-burn, romantic comedies slated for an anime adapation, then this book is for you.
I'll be honest: it's a slow burn. Coming off of a high action series, it took a whie to adjust to the pacing and the characters. Speaking of characters, they started off basic but I enjoyed their dynamic.
If you're into slow-burn, romantic comedies slated for an anime adapation, then this book is for you.
March 19, 2023
3.5 ⭐⭐⭐
Y siguiendo con la ronda de terminados...
Al menos este primer volumen es calcado al anime, aunque si destaco que aclaren algunos pensamientos y sentimientos que de pronto no son tan claros en formato audiovisual.
Ah! Y también, la evolución de personajes es más notoria. Como Mahiru pasa de ser muy fría, a irse encariñando poco a poco con Amane y sintiendose más relajada junto a él :3 esto es muchisimo más gradual aquí y el mismo Amane va dandonos la pauta cuando hace las comparativas.
Y siguiendo con la ronda de terminados...
Al menos este primer volumen es calcado al anime, aunque si destaco que aclaren algunos pensamientos y sentimientos que de pronto no son tan claros en formato audiovisual.
Ah! Y también, la evolución de personajes es más notoria. Como Mahiru pasa de ser muy fría, a irse encariñando poco a poco con Amane y sintiendose más relajada junto a él :3 esto es muchisimo más gradual aquí y el mismo Amane va dandonos la pauta cuando hace las comparativas.
September 13, 2021
Belle découverte, merci Shiro.
Typiquement le genre d'oeuvre qui pourrait me réconcilier avec les school life romcom..
Déjà pas de harem moisi avec des fille décérébrée (coucou Kirito), ensuite des situations réaliste de tous les jours ou presque (du moment que tu prends comme acquis que les ado jap vivant seul à domicile/ds leur propre appartement en toute autonomie, c'est normale. Après c'est un plot tellement courant qu'il vaut mieux passer au dessus 😉)
Typiquement le genre d'oeuvre qui pourrait me réconcilier avec les school life romcom..
Déjà pas de harem moisi avec des fille décérébrée (coucou Kirito), ensuite des situations réaliste de tous les jours ou presque (du moment que tu prends comme acquis que les ado jap vivant seul à domicile/ds leur propre appartement en toute autonomie, c'est normale. Après c'est un plot tellement courant qu'il vaut mieux passer au dessus 😉)
June 20, 2022
So Amane was a bit of a empty character but Marhiru changed him later on, it dragged on though to figure out that he feels happier to be around her. Marhiru was such a great character in my opinion, she was just too adorable for how she acts and takes care of Amane. The story overall, it was such a slow book to get into, I would hope the second book has a potential of some sort to have more development.
February 5, 2023
At first I wasn't sure how I would like this series as the anime seemed to good but light novels can often be quite different. If you enjoy Romance that is slow pace but builds up to something spectacular this appears to be the type of book to read. The illustrations are fantastic but you can tell that the illustrator actually changed as the volumes progress. I would say this is like your traditional romance light novel but it seems like there's something more to it not the same cliché story that some have. If you have the opportunity I would highly recommend giving this serious a chance either via Amazon or other bookstores.
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