DNF @ 42%
Absolutely gorgeous cover and very creative and potentially humorous premise, but this wasn't what I was expecting at all. I thought it would be a comedic book about an older magical girl having an existential crisis and it was sort of that, but it wasn't very funny. It reminded me a lot of I WANT TO DIE BUT I WANT TO EAT TTEOKBOKKI in the sense that the focal element is more about Asian women struggling to manage their depression and how it makes them feel selfish and unpleasant at people in a culture that not only values togetherness and putting other people first, but also doesn't really talk about mental illness publicly out of shame and stigma.
I found it to be really boring and a little too weird for me personally, and even halfway through this novella, it still didn't feel like it had all its shit together. It might be funny to others and maybe it just wasn't my personal sense of humor, so if you enjoyed Baek Se-hee and also enjoy anime, you might be the target audience for this book.
2 out of 5 stars
