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“What are you people doing?!”

Lmao I forgot about updating GR for about a good chunk of this year.
Anyway, the first LOGH felt very rigid. There were lots of new technical jargon and politics-centered words that I added to my Japanese language dictionary, but tbh the writing was pretty dry in most places. I think the anime does a pretty good job setting the atmosphere and manages to surpass the feeling of staticness from the novel.

During his boyhood, he would describe Kircheis’s hair according to his whim: whenever they were quarreling—a state that never lasted very long—he would say mean things like, “What’s with that red hair? It looks like blood.” Then after they made up, he would praise it, calling it “really pretty, like a burning flame. (2/2)

Reinhard stretched out his long, supple fingers and playfully tugged at his best friend’s hair, as red as if dyed with molten rubies. Reinhard would do this sort of thing from time to time when no one else was around. (1/2)