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My Friend's Little Sister Has It In for Me! (Light Novel) #1
My Friend's Little Sister Has It In for Me! Volume 1
If a girl teases you, that means she likes you!Unfortunately, Akiteru knows from experience that isn’t the case. Because every girl he interacts with shows him nothing but scorn, and he’s not scored a single date from it! Luckily, he’s more concerned with securing a spot for him and his game-development buddies at his uncle’s business.But when his uncle throws him a condition that involves playing the part of his daughter’s boyfriend, Akiteru has no choice but to take it. What will his best friend’s sister Iroha, who bullies him relentlessly, think of the news?
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First published April 15, 2019
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March 27, 2021
I just kind of ran through this one recently again, just listening through for the story more than enjoyment necessarily since I did read it before. I'm going to give it the 5 stars though because it's a really good volume 1 overall that introduces distinct leads that play off of each other well comedically (I think only the teacher character will maybe annoy some; Iroha is more of a troll than actually "annoying", and the lead guy trolls back just as much to give her a taste of her own medicine; at the end of the day, they all find common ground to have some sweeter and friendly moments too).
Looking forward to really getting into the series with volume 2. Volume 1 ends with a bombshell of an ending, and also some hints about why some characters feel particularly interested in the lead. It's nice to have a hero that takes care of himself physically even if mentally he could use some work (he's a bit too down on himself on the romance front).
I'd be interested to see how the relationship dynamics play out (it'd be kind of cool if Iroha's brother gets a love interest at some point too, the lazy approach maybe having Mashiro ship with him as the loser in the triangle romance; I could easily see this story still working after the major drama plays out too since Iroha's playful behavior doesn't have to end if she ever gets shipped together with the lead).
Looking forward to really getting into the series with volume 2. Volume 1 ends with a bombshell of an ending, and also some hints about why some characters feel particularly interested in the lead. It's nice to have a hero that takes care of himself physically even if mentally he could use some work (he's a bit too down on himself on the romance front).
I'd be interested to see how the relationship dynamics play out (it'd be kind of cool if Iroha's brother gets a love interest at some point too, the lazy approach maybe having Mashiro ship with him as the loser in the triangle romance; I could easily see this story still working after the major drama plays out too since Iroha's playful behavior doesn't have to end if she ever gets shipped together with the lead).
January 16, 2025
Cute, but a bit empty.
I like Akiteru, but he’s a bit too omniscient to be believable.
Iroha is cute, but her flirting act is more desperate than annoying. I hope she grows out of it.
Mashiro is convenient for the plot, and checks off some fannish boxes, too: ☑ Tsundere
Ozuma doesn’t feel fleshed out as a character. What exactly is his personality? It seems to change.
Sumire. She is the most unrealistic character of all. She is borderline funny, with one foot well over the line. I expect her to get arrested and fired any minute now.
You might get the feeling that I didn’t like the book, but I read it from beginning to end without a gun to my head. I enjoyed it. I imagine that is why the parts that I didn’t like stood out so much. It was a good book, but also a bit predictable, and the plot events felt convenient, not organic. The plot felt more real to me than the characters did, so I hope that’s fixed in the next novel.
My favorite part of the book was the afterword where the author revealed the conversation with her editor that was the origin of this novel. Very insightful. Pulled the curtain back a bit on the light novel business.
Lastly, the uncle needs to be strapped to a rocket and fired off towards the sun. That is all.
I like Akiteru, but he’s a bit too omniscient to be believable.
Iroha is cute, but her flirting act is more desperate than annoying. I hope she grows out of it.
Mashiro is convenient for the plot, and checks off some fannish boxes, too: ☑ Tsundere
Ozuma doesn’t feel fleshed out as a character. What exactly is his personality? It seems to change.
Sumire. She is the most unrealistic character of all. She is borderline funny, with one foot well over the line. I expect her to get arrested and fired any minute now.
You might get the feeling that I didn’t like the book, but I read it from beginning to end without a gun to my head. I enjoyed it. I imagine that is why the parts that I didn’t like stood out so much. It was a good book, but also a bit predictable, and the plot events felt convenient, not organic. The plot felt more real to me than the characters did, so I hope that’s fixed in the next novel.
My favorite part of the book was the afterword where the author revealed the conversation with her editor that was the origin of this novel. Very insightful. Pulled the curtain back a bit on the light novel business.
Lastly, the uncle needs to be strapped to a rocket and fired off towards the sun. That is all.
July 14, 2021
she's listening to nba youngboy
June 9, 2025
Akiteru is all about efficiency. So why has he gathered together a disparate group who mainly all live on the same floor of his apartment building into a alliance that has put out a computer game? Why does he put up with his friend's "little" sister popping into his life at random moments and annoying him? And why is he willing to sacrifice himself by "faking" a relationship with his uncle's daughter at his school? What benefit does he accrue from all of this? Read this title and find out! Have fun along the way!
January 17, 2022
I don't know what intention this book has. It seems to want to lean so hard into the tropes of these stories and mock their stylings yet it fails to provide any useful commentary or humor around what satire it attempts to have. It's another "annoying character" story which is already an exhausting concept that's bogged down even more by an unengaging protagonist who we are constantly reminded is dense and stupid for not knowing the female characters are interested in him. It's just an obnoxious read with inexplicably dated "meme" references. I want to see where the story goes just due to the ending of this volume and the few interesting quirks the character do have but I don't think it's worth tolerating some very exhausting writing.
February 1, 2026
There's no way to sugarcoat this. This wasn't very good. Like, at all. I mean, it wasn't TERRIBLE, it was just one of the most generic things i've ever read in my life. This story reads like if you fed "write me a romantic comedy light novel for zoomers that's self aware"into an AI generator, this is what would pop out. The characters are dull, the plot is non-existent, and the humor is some of the cringiest things i've ever read.
Okay, let's start off with the humor. First of all, I don't know who's localizing, but please PLEASE this idea that you need to write it in the way of "to be hip" is so bad, and dates the story so terribly, it makes me want to die. Words like "sus" should never be in a light novel translation.
When it comes to the humor, one of the biggest forms of "humor" is referencing that the things that are happening in the story are stereotypes of anime. So yes, their main form of humor is lampshading themselves. a character will say something like "wow senpai you have a harem anime going on!" Lampshading normally never works, and it doesn't work in this one either. Just because you TELL ME that your premise and characters are overdone and silly, doesn't make it okay.
Next up are the characters. The main girl, Iroha, is terrible. That's the best thing you can say about her. the titular "friend's little sister" is so blatantly in love with the MC that it's actually rather painful. The only reason there's even a BIT of a story here is because the MC is so fantastically dense that it makes a regular anime protagonist look like Sherlock Holmes by comparison. Every single character calls him out for being dense and, like i said before, lampshading isn't duct tape that fixes things. But as for Iroha, she's peppy, obviously in love with the MC and is annoying to the point that I wouldn't want her around me, let alone fall for her. and of course they spend a lot of time talking about how she has a big rack? um...yay? good for her? But I think the part that really irked me is how she's so smug about herself. Here's a line of internal monologue from the book "I was blessed with a natural beauty. my features were just pronounced enough to catch the eyes of all the boys. This was all objectively speaking of course."
So girl, first of all, you mean SUBJECTIVE. You can't say you're OBJECTIVELY hot. like, excuse you? second of all, you're an idiot. Third of all, your weird....telling MC you like him but also not telling him by saying it's jokes is irritating. stop it.
The MC is a boring pile of nothing. He's your standard MC. He pretends to not like main girl, is super duper dense on two girls crushing on him, and his schtick is that he "is very efficient." which, honestly only comes up a few times. I think if they really went for a "super efficient" character to the point of parody, it might have been funny. Kind of like "Overly cautious hero", but no, they just bring it up every once in a while to justify his actions and thoughts.
The third main character is Mashiro. Sad quiet girl who MC has to pretend to be the BF of, but she acts like she hates him for....stupid reasons. Even though she has the biggest crush ever on him. She's also irritating, but not nearly as bad as Iroha.
The other characters are...fine if not forgettable, except...there's a really weird character in the story. The group of main characters all work on video games together and one of them is their teacher. the teacher is... well she's a PDFile. Basically straight up. And...it's weird because they play it off like it's....funny? like it's very uncomfortable. She's a TEACHER in these kids high school and has lines like "Gimme some more of that prepubescent boys' love!" like.... i don't know why Japan insists on making these characters? Yes, they try to play it off that she likes 'fictional 2d' but like...i dunno. it's creepy and i don't find that stuff very funny? especially for a teacher. it's weird is all i'm saying.
Anyway, onto the plot. There is none. I have read DOZENS of slice of life, and i can't believe how little of a plot this has. like, i'm actually impressed on how much nothing was in this book. Uncle wants nephew to pretend his cousin is his girlfriend. if he does, he'll hire his video game group to work for his company.
That's it. that's the whole plot. like, the titular little sister friend isn't even really essential to that plot at all. She's just kind of.....there. There's really no plot other than what i just said. the rest of the book is just them farting around trying to get the cousin girl (Mashiro) to be more sociable. Iroha is then annoying, people tell MC is dense for not realizing the girls like him, rinse, repeat.
My god this book is so filled with NOTHING. Like, if you couldn't tell, i'm not reading book two. I don't think i could handle any more of this. If it wasn't for the fact that the art was really good and it read SUPER fast (i read this in a day) it would have gotten a 1. So, Tomari, good job on the illustrations. However Mikawaghost, yeah no, please go back to writing school. When you have a scene where the characters go see a body swap anime movie called "His Name"? like...my god son. I hear amazon.jp is hiring.
Also, i don't know whether it was the translator, or the editor who made these localization changes but dear sweet baby jesus NEVER do this again. reading a book hearing anime characters talk like zoomers made me contemplate the sweet fires of hell that await me at the end of this mortal coil.
There's really nothing else to say this. it was doomed to fail as nothing about this was interesting or good. when my best compliments are "the art was nice and it was over fast" you have a problem.
2 out of 5. now get me out of here
Okay, let's start off with the humor. First of all, I don't know who's localizing, but please PLEASE this idea that you need to write it in the way of "to be hip" is so bad, and dates the story so terribly, it makes me want to die. Words like "sus" should never be in a light novel translation.
When it comes to the humor, one of the biggest forms of "humor" is referencing that the things that are happening in the story are stereotypes of anime. So yes, their main form of humor is lampshading themselves. a character will say something like "wow senpai you have a harem anime going on!" Lampshading normally never works, and it doesn't work in this one either. Just because you TELL ME that your premise and characters are overdone and silly, doesn't make it okay.
Next up are the characters. The main girl, Iroha, is terrible. That's the best thing you can say about her. the titular "friend's little sister" is so blatantly in love with the MC that it's actually rather painful. The only reason there's even a BIT of a story here is because the MC is so fantastically dense that it makes a regular anime protagonist look like Sherlock Holmes by comparison. Every single character calls him out for being dense and, like i said before, lampshading isn't duct tape that fixes things. But as for Iroha, she's peppy, obviously in love with the MC and is annoying to the point that I wouldn't want her around me, let alone fall for her. and of course they spend a lot of time talking about how she has a big rack? um...yay? good for her? But I think the part that really irked me is how she's so smug about herself. Here's a line of internal monologue from the book "I was blessed with a natural beauty. my features were just pronounced enough to catch the eyes of all the boys. This was all objectively speaking of course."
So girl, first of all, you mean SUBJECTIVE. You can't say you're OBJECTIVELY hot. like, excuse you? second of all, you're an idiot. Third of all, your weird....telling MC you like him but also not telling him by saying it's jokes is irritating. stop it.
The MC is a boring pile of nothing. He's your standard MC. He pretends to not like main girl, is super duper dense on two girls crushing on him, and his schtick is that he "is very efficient." which, honestly only comes up a few times. I think if they really went for a "super efficient" character to the point of parody, it might have been funny. Kind of like "Overly cautious hero", but no, they just bring it up every once in a while to justify his actions and thoughts.
The third main character is Mashiro. Sad quiet girl who MC has to pretend to be the BF of, but she acts like she hates him for....stupid reasons. Even though she has the biggest crush ever on him. She's also irritating, but not nearly as bad as Iroha.
The other characters are...fine if not forgettable, except...there's a really weird character in the story. The group of main characters all work on video games together and one of them is their teacher. the teacher is... well she's a PDFile. Basically straight up. And...it's weird because they play it off like it's....funny? like it's very uncomfortable. She's a TEACHER in these kids high school and has lines like "Gimme some more of that prepubescent boys' love!" like.... i don't know why Japan insists on making these characters? Yes, they try to play it off that she likes 'fictional 2d' but like...i dunno. it's creepy and i don't find that stuff very funny? especially for a teacher. it's weird is all i'm saying.
Anyway, onto the plot. There is none. I have read DOZENS of slice of life, and i can't believe how little of a plot this has. like, i'm actually impressed on how much nothing was in this book. Uncle wants nephew to pretend his cousin is his girlfriend. if he does, he'll hire his video game group to work for his company.
That's it. that's the whole plot. like, the titular little sister friend isn't even really essential to that plot at all. She's just kind of.....there. There's really no plot other than what i just said. the rest of the book is just them farting around trying to get the cousin girl (Mashiro) to be more sociable. Iroha is then annoying, people tell MC is dense for not realizing the girls like him, rinse, repeat.
My god this book is so filled with NOTHING. Like, if you couldn't tell, i'm not reading book two. I don't think i could handle any more of this. If it wasn't for the fact that the art was really good and it read SUPER fast (i read this in a day) it would have gotten a 1. So, Tomari, good job on the illustrations. However Mikawaghost, yeah no, please go back to writing school. When you have a scene where the characters go see a body swap anime movie called "His Name"? like...my god son. I hear amazon.jp is hiring.
Also, i don't know whether it was the translator, or the editor who made these localization changes but dear sweet baby jesus NEVER do this again. reading a book hearing anime characters talk like zoomers made me contemplate the sweet fires of hell that await me at the end of this mortal coil.
There's really nothing else to say this. it was doomed to fail as nothing about this was interesting or good. when my best compliments are "the art was nice and it was over fast" you have a problem.
2 out of 5. now get me out of here
September 1, 2021
This was pretty forgettable.
February 13, 2021
Fun ROMCOM
This was a fun read about an average boy, with average looks, average aspirations and an average life, or so he would like you to believe. One of his peculiarities is his obsession with effeciency which he uses as an excuse to exrpess himself in interesting unselfish ways. As the title suggests his friends sister has it in for him and chooses to express herself by being as annoying as possible to get a rise out him. Being true to the genre this leads to him being exposed to funny and vulnerable situations.
The Plot is simple, the MC has formed the 5th Floor Alliance, a group that makes games and apps in the hopes of making a career of it. Being effecient as always he exploits his friends talents and his own personal connections. In this VOL he works out a deal with his uncle, a CEO of a large media and tv company, to ensure that his trusted group can start off working at this prestigious company right out of highschool. Something to note is that you, the reader, wont have to worry about going through the development process of them making the game. I dont think I would have been able to read this if I had to follow them working through each individual action when producing a product. In otherwords you can relax knowing that you wont be tied down in such details while the story focuses on their relationships and aspirations. The Setting of the story is in highschool with the main characters being in the full swing of youth.
I very much enjoyed this debut Vol and its unique plot to the genre while still holding to its common tropes and cliche's. To name two; the famous love traingle and aloof protaganist. In closing, I beilieve this story earned its stars and I would recommend this to any one who is into ROMCOM stories or had read somthing similar to "There's no way a side character like me could be popular right".
This was a fun read about an average boy, with average looks, average aspirations and an average life, or so he would like you to believe. One of his peculiarities is his obsession with effeciency which he uses as an excuse to exrpess himself in interesting unselfish ways. As the title suggests his friends sister has it in for him and chooses to express herself by being as annoying as possible to get a rise out him. Being true to the genre this leads to him being exposed to funny and vulnerable situations.
The Plot is simple, the MC has formed the 5th Floor Alliance, a group that makes games and apps in the hopes of making a career of it. Being effecient as always he exploits his friends talents and his own personal connections. In this VOL he works out a deal with his uncle, a CEO of a large media and tv company, to ensure that his trusted group can start off working at this prestigious company right out of highschool. Something to note is that you, the reader, wont have to worry about going through the development process of them making the game. I dont think I would have been able to read this if I had to follow them working through each individual action when producing a product. In otherwords you can relax knowing that you wont be tied down in such details while the story focuses on their relationships and aspirations. The Setting of the story is in highschool with the main characters being in the full swing of youth.
I very much enjoyed this debut Vol and its unique plot to the genre while still holding to its common tropes and cliche's. To name two; the famous love traingle and aloof protaganist. In closing, I beilieve this story earned its stars and I would recommend this to any one who is into ROMCOM stories or had read somthing similar to "There's no way a side character like me could be popular right".
September 22, 2024
Its a very tropey romcom light novel. Its definitely aware of how tropey it is with the jokes it makes but despite its own self awarness it doesn't really subvert or innovate on it too much but for anyone who's a fan of those tropes this is definitely an enjoyable book as the book does the tropes well enough.
The story and plot is alright. I don't have much to say about it as there's not much to talk about but it was an alright story about finding friends and opening up. It feels kinda surreal nobody in this book pointing out the weirdness that one of the potential love interests for the main character is his cousin.
For me this book's greatest strenght was its character interaction and dynamics. Not just between the mc and the potential love interests but just between every character in general. The comedy might be a little too raunchy for others but I liked it.
Personally I'm kind of a sucker for romcoms where the characters kinda live together before they are even together romantically and I thought this book was a pretty decent read for any cohabitation romcom enjoyers.
The story and plot is alright. I don't have much to say about it as there's not much to talk about but it was an alright story about finding friends and opening up. It feels kinda surreal nobody in this book pointing out the weirdness that one of the potential love interests for the main character is his cousin.
For me this book's greatest strenght was its character interaction and dynamics. Not just between the mc and the potential love interests but just between every character in general. The comedy might be a little too raunchy for others but I liked it.
Personally I'm kind of a sucker for romcoms where the characters kinda live together before they are even together romantically and I thought this book was a pretty decent read for any cohabitation romcom enjoyers.
June 28, 2021
A fun rom-com about an average boy named Akiteru and his friends in their video game development group called the 05th Floor Alliance.
Akiteru is constantly annoyed by his best friend's sister Iroha, and for him to get his dream job of working at his Uncle's game studio. The one problem is his Uncle wants him to fake being his daughters' boyfriend. The story has great characters and moves at a great pace. I can't wait to read the second volume to see what happens next.
Thanks to Edelweiss Plus for the ARC.
Akiteru is constantly annoyed by his best friend's sister Iroha, and for him to get his dream job of working at his Uncle's game studio. The one problem is his Uncle wants him to fake being his daughters' boyfriend. The story has great characters and moves at a great pace. I can't wait to read the second volume to see what happens next.
Thanks to Edelweiss Plus for the ARC.
May 3, 2021
I love how we are getting all the rom-com titles translated, but I'm a bit unsure of this series, can't decide if I like it or not.
March 18, 2022
It feels weird put four stars but it has all you could wait in this type of story. Easy-nice-light-reading.
November 29, 2021
Imouza was a solid read for me. The story follows a generic bunch as they attempt to join a video game company and deal with the interesting situations that ensue. This idea wasn’t the most exciting for me, and I found the side characters to be plain and underdeveloped. However, for me the plot takes the back seat as the MC and Iroha’s (the friends little sister) interactions take the main stage. At first I found Iroha to be annoying and basic, however, as the story progresses I began to enjoy her character for an unknown reason. As I continued to read I found myself engaged in her simple but effective character especially in some more serious one-on-one moments later in the book. This was definitely the best part of the story for me personally anyways. Hoping to see some more fleshed out side characters in the volumes to come!
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