Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Mini Review: The Chronicle Control Group Chooses to be Bad [90s], The Real Daughter Returns with Millions of Subordinates, The Full-Level Boss is Also Forced to Open Today

Title: The Chronicle Control Group Chooses to be Bad [90s]
Author: 禾度
Chapters: 66 chapters + 8 extras
Publication: 2022
Summary from jjwxc:

Wen Zhiwen transmigrated into a chronicle.

The heroine in the book is considerate. After marriage, she gave birth to three sons in a row. They can live in the living room and the kitchen. Not only the children are well-educated, but they also support her husband's career very much. A good model wife.


As for the control group, Wen Zhiwen, who is coquettish and coquettish, was lucky enough to marry Yu Huaiyan, the proud son of heaven in the compound.

Even so, Wen Zhiwen was not satisfied either.


After marriage, because Yu Huaiyan was busy with his career, Wen Zhiwen was suspicious all day long. She thinks He didn't go home because other women were outside.

In the end, Yu Huaiyan couldn't bear it and divorced her, which can be said to be a strong foil to the hero and heroine.


Wen Zhiwen after reading the script: ...I choose to play badly.


*


On the first day of marriage, Yu Huaiyan said to his unfamiliar wife: "I'm very busy at work-"

Before he could finish speaking, Wen Zhiwen interrupted him, who held his hand and said sincerely: "Don't worry, I will never bother you!"


It's a fairy day for a husband who has money and doesn't come home!

Thus, Wen Zhiwen happily started her life of being a mess -


When the heroine got up early in the morning to cook for the whole family, Wen Zhiwen was sleeping beautifully.

When the heroine was so angry with her three sons, Wen Zhiwen was happily shopping in the newly opened shopping mall regardless of the price.

While the hostess was taking care of her drunken husband without complaint, Wen Zhiwen was driving a Santana with her mobile phone in her hand...


Hostess: Fall! Who is the control group?


And Wen Zhiwen looked at her husband who was getting more and more diligent when she came home, and fell into deep thought:

I agreed that I don't like to go home!

Wait, don't come here!

2.5 STARS - I LIKED IT ENOUGH

MY REVIEW: 

I liked Wen Zhiwen's attitude towards accepting her transmigration and her sudden marriage. Instead of following the plot, she played her role as a loving wife while accomplishing her dreams of being a salted fish. 

I loved that she didn't fall in love with her husband instantaneously because she had no plans on falling in love and instead had backup plans for herself. Everything she did was because she just wanted to or to plan for a way out for herself in the future, so it was nice reading about Yu Huaiyan slowly falling for his "lovebrain wife" only to realize that she never loved him and working hard to change her mind. 

However, the ending dragged a bit. Then, it just kind of ended. I wasn't too interested in the extras either, so I skipped them after reading a chapter. 


Title: The Real Daughter Returns with Millions of Subordinates
Author: 帘舒
Chapters: 106 chapters 
Publication: 2022
Summary from jjwxc:

As the real daughter in a fake daughter book, Cheng Qingyin's family went bankrupt by the reborn fake daughter before she graduated from University. At this time, the reborn fake daughter became popular in the entertainment industry with the experience of her previous life, and everyone was envious. 

The rich families in Dongcheng laughed at Cheng Qingyin's parents for being blind. No one knew that Cheng Qingyin, who seemed to be an ordinary girl, is actually a Xuanmen warlock with strong spiritual power. The millions of ghosts who were unemployed in hell are scrambling to make money for her. 

The talented programmers who died early, asked her to open a company, and in just two months, they developed a popular mobile game for her. The top ten famous chefs asked her to open a small restaurant. In less than half a month, the ordinary small restaurant was full of customers, and more than a dozen branches had to be opened one after another, with a daily turnover of hundreds of thousands. There is also a generation of magic doctors who helped Cheng Qingyin prepare whitening liquid, slimming pills and hair lotion every day, which are put in the online store. As soon as they are put on the shelves, they will be sold out in seconds. 

They don't want any pay, they just like the sense of accomplishment brought by work... The rich families in Dongcheng were dumbfounded when they saw Cheng Qingyin topped the Forbes wealth list.

4 STARS - I REALLY LIKED IT

MY REVIEW: 

I think if you liked New Times, New Hell with its different take on Hell and full of humorous ghosts side characters, you'll like this book. If you like a BG face slapping plot, this is also right up your alley. If you're looking for romance... you should look somewhere else lol. But honestly, Cheng Qingyin's so great by herself and so busy helping her family and ghosts, she doesn't need a man! There's only hints of a romance, so it wasn't too abrupt. 


Title: The Full-Level Boss is Also Forced to Open Today
Author: 百城辞
Chapters: 103 chapters + 1 extra
Publication: 2021
Summary from jjwxc:

Originally titled "Please, Let Me Salt Fish" General Yu Chu, who commanded an interstellar army of millions, was reborn and became a freshman in the combat individual department who had just stepped into the academy.

Marshal Yu, who had killed countless enemies in her previous life, led her soldiers to win hundreds of battles, and was proficient in commanding mechs, suddenly figured it out in this life.

After working so hard for so long, her nerves were tense all the time, but now that she was lucky enough to live another life, Yu Chu suddenly became tired.

So she was a salted fish every day, paddling, eating and waiting to die. So everyone thought that Yu Chu was an ordinary soldier in combat, and she even ordered food.

Until a group outing in the college was robbed by a star thief, and the classmates and teachers were extremely panicked, after Yu Chu punched a star thief, she even drove away the star thief's spaceship.

Everyone: Bull, bull batch!

Since then, Yu Chu was forced to play when the class team lacked long-range machine guns, the school's main team lacked mecha architects, and when the federal ranking competitions of various countries had not yet been determined.

"I'm just an ordinary single soldier in combat, what are you doing!! Can you let me be salted fish!!"

Squad leader & principal & officer: "No!"

Yu Chu: "..."

I may not be human, but you are A real dog "What should I do if the full-level boss always likes to pretend to be weak? Wait online, I'm in a hurry."

"I thought she was ordinary, but she just pretended to be a pig and eat a tiger?"

Yu Chu was wronged: I am not, I don't!

#This is a sad (sha) injury (diao) story of a full-level boss who is ready to retire but is forced to open business#

2.5 STARS - I LIKED IT ENOUGH

MY REVIEW: 

I really liked the story up until the first half which mainly involved Chu Yu's school life. Everything was funny and Chu Yu's antics on pissing off all of her teachers was hilarious. Then it got into politics and the past, and everything became a boring jumbled mess with lots of hints but not enough action.

Everything suddenly became passive. There was a lot of telling instead of showing, which made the pace slow down a lot. I was glad to finally understand the mysteries, but the ending wasn't as great or impactful as it could have been. 

Sunday, June 23, 2024

Shows I'm Currently Watching: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 3; Kaiju No. 8; My Hero Academia Season 6; As a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I'll Use My Appraisal Skill to Rise in the World

It's been a year since I've last done one of these posts. I've been watching a lot of anime lately, and I have opinions!

CURRENTLY WATCHING:

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 3

You already know that I'm a HUGE fan of this slime anime! Alec and I couldn't wait for the entire season to be completed before starting it, so now I'm dying every week waiting to watch the next episode lol. While the first couple of episodes were pretty slow in action, I appreciated all of the world-building and lore. There's a lot of new characters, too, so it gets a bit hard for me to remember all of them as the show is now focusing outside of Rimuru's domain. However, I like watching how everything is slowly interconnecting, because you KNOW that there's going to be an epic battle happening once all the strings tie together!


Kaiju No. 8

Started watching this at first purely because Alec noticed that OneRepublic sang the ending song. It's the first time we've seen an American artist doing an anime OST, so we were curious about what the show was about, especially since Crunchyroll has been hardcore hyping it up with its weekly simulcast schedule. Dang, we were so invested after the first episode. Kafka is a hilarious character, and I love his friendship with Reno. The action is great, the animation is awesome, the music is so good, and the cliffhangers are KILLER. I am hooked like an addict wanting to know what's next every week now that we started this show lol.


My Hero Academia Season 6

It's been over 5 years since I last watched My Hero Academia even though I loved it so much when it first came out lol. Now, I'm finally catching up so that we can watch the new season and I guess die waiting for a new episode every week as well lol. Season 4 and 5 were INTENSE. I can't wait to see how Season 6 pans out!


As a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I'll Use My Appraisal Skill to Rise in the World

I started this on a whim the other day to see if it was another generic reincarnated into a magic aristocracy anime, and it's surprisingly not bad! I like that Ars himself is not OP as soon as he's reborn. Instead, he works to bring OP characters to his side to help him change the future and protect his people and land. He probably relies too much on his retainers instead of growing himself honestly (which would be bad if they ever betrayed him but that would never happen with the power of kindess lol). The main thing about this show that confuses me is that he's supposed to be a reborn adult salaryman from Japan, but he instead still acts like a reckless kid, showing his immature personality all of the time. He's constantly shocked and flustered. I think it's partly for comedic effect, but it also downplays his intelligence and makes him rather boring after a while. Honestly, this anime would have been better without the reincarnated aspect. However, I LOVE his dad. He is probably one of the rare great father figures in anime lol.

Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Mini Review: Me no Tsukedokoro ga Deep desho, Saving the Tragic Adonis, Give Me a Kiss

Title: Me no Tsukedokoro ga Deep desho
Author: AKIO Chinami
Chapters: 3 volumes
Publication: 2019
Summary from Baka Updates:

Mina is a girl who has a strong hope of finding her destined person. With that goal in mind, she tries her best with different types of guys wishful of finding the right person. Even when her childhood friend, a yankee named Yuito, is already by her side. Will she ever find her destined person? A romantic comedy, coming-of-age tale of love and friendship.

3 STARS - I LIKED IT

MY REVIEW: 

It's hilarious how dense Mina is of Yuito's feelings! If you don't like dense but bubbly heroines, this might not be for you.


Title: Saving the Tragic Adonis
Author: 东方黄瓜
Chapters: 63 chapters + 1 extra
Publication: 2021
Summary from Novel Updates:

Shu Ning read a CEO novel. In it, there was a beautiful and tragic villain. He was clearly the true young master of a wealthy family, but he was switched at birth and became a delinquent. Later, he returned to the wealthy family to go against the fake young master, fought for his fiancée, and finally fell from the top of a building and died.

After his death, the fake young master inherited his money and his fiancée, his career and his love.

Shu Ning resentfully tore up the novel and transmigrated into the book that very night.

The little villain shook his legs, cursed, had horrible grades, dyed his hair yellow, didn’t have a single good point.

Shu Ning’s eyes twitched: Before sending him back to the Wei family, let’s make some changes. Otherwise, he’ll be rejected by the Wei family again.

After being reformed by Shu Ning.

The little villain didn’t shake his legs, stopped swearing, and cut his crazy, scene-style hair. He was as beautiful as a fairy and took first place in the entire grade.

Daddy Shu Ning shed tears of relief: Our baby is so good. He’ll definitely be able to get rid of that fake young master!

But isn’t baby a little too good?

He casually created a piece of software and sold it for hundreds of thousands.

He casually bought some stocks and made millions.

Before his wealthy family had even found him, he had become wealthy all on his own.

Every time he earned some money, he would offer it up to Shu Ning, buying him this and that, even buying him a villa!

Shu Ning (drooling): This damn villa, quickly take it away, don’t tempt me!

Yin Mingzheng thought that he was tr*sh of unknown origin, someone that no one cared about. He thought that he was someone who should have perished long ago.

Until that day, when he met the only light in his life.

So he clung onto the light tightly, refusing to let go.

His light said: You have to improve yourself.

So Yin Mingzheng worked hard to become better and stronger. He wanted to protect his only light. Because his light was the sole meaning of his existence.

4 STARS - I  REALLY LIKED IT

MY REVIEW: 

This was a great novel about helping change someone's fate based on their family experiences. You really feel for Yin Mingzheng, especially in the beginning when he was a prickly hedgehog used to being blamed for everything. His slow growth from an isolated, angry youth to a young adult who learned to accept people's flaws and be more forgiving towards people who care about him was really great to experience. 

I could definitely relate to Shu Ning's experience of a father raising his cub lol. However, I felt like the ending was pretty rushed? We were robbed of a fluffy romance after the couple got together! The one extra chapter wasn't enough! What about their future plans like Shu Ning talked about? And what happened to Zhou Juan and her real son? Did they get a chance to repent? Were they like a pair of dogs biting each other after the fallout? Author, I just wanna know!!!


Title: Give Me a Kiss
Author: Yǐnlù Xīng
Chapters: 52 chapters
Publication: 2018
Summary from Novel Updates:

Xie Wenxing dumped the school grass Guan He in high school. Six years later, he became a game anchor, and Guan He became his big boss.

The Xie Wenxing in Guan He’s memory has always been a heartless devil. He gave all his adolescent tenderness to Xie Wenxing, but the latter scratched his head with a claw, and blood flowed.

When they met again, Guan He found that he could not let go.

Since he can’t let go, he will get married first, and then he will take back the rest of the compensation from Xie Wenxing slowly……

2.5 STARS - IT WAS OKAY

MY REVIEW: 

I really enjoyed one of the author's more famous books, I Like Your Pheromones, so I thought I'd read this book as well since the summary sounded interesting. And it was interesting, but it wasn't as great or funny as I Like Your Pheromones. Since it was tagged as a comedy, I thought it would be more funny, but there wasn't much humor except little instances sprinkled throughout. 

Also, because the misunderstanding dragged on for more than half of the book, it was more dramatic and angsty with not enough humor to lighten up the mood. 

Overall an okay read, but I definitely skimmed through parts.

Thursday, June 13, 2024

Books I Want to Read This Month

Lol I talked about keeping the momentum going to keep reading books off of this list last month and instead watched a lot of anime. I'll try to do better. We finally got the last of the bookshelves and just need to rearrange the den before we can move the rest of my books over from Shelle and Kyle's house. Then, I'll finally have a larger range of books to choose to read from!

  1. Wotakoi Love Is Hard for Otaku vol. 1 by Fujita
  2. Wotakoi Love Is Hard for Otaku vol. 2 by Fujita
  3. Wotakoi Love Is Hard for Otaku vol. 3 by Fujita
  4. Wotakoi Love Is Hard for Otaku vol. 4 by Fujita
  5. Wotakoi Love Is Hard for Otaku vol. 5 by Fujita
  6. All of Us Villains by Amanda Foody & Christine Lynn Herman
  7. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
  8. The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
  9. The Rising of the Shield Hero vol. 1 by Aneko Yusagi
  10. The Rising of the Shield Hero vol. 2 by Aneko Yusagi
  11. Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Familia Chronicle Novel vol. 1 by Fujino Omori
  12. Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Familia Chronicle Novel vol. 2 by Fujino Omori
  13. Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? vol. 15 by Fujino Omori
  14. Euphoria by F.S. Yousaf
  15. Home Body by Rupi Kaur

Monday, June 10, 2024

May in Retrospect

Last month was more focused on catching up with anime, most likely because I wanted to catch up on some of the bigger series before attending Momocon. Still didn't help me from hearing JJK spoilers though lol. I really want to watch season 2, but I don't want to because of all the spoilers has me knowing that I'll be really sad watching it!!!

I read: 

  • After Picking Up Five Brothers, No One Dares to Offend the Capital City by 陌于之
  • Not For You to Bite by 白云朵
  • After Dressing up as a Villain, I was Annoyed Because I was Too Cute by 纪扶染
  • After Winning This Battle, I Will Go Home And Get Married by 寒菽
  • I Am The White Moonlight Of The Paranoid Immortal by 若白衣
  • When Reader and Author Transmigrate Inside the Book at the Same Time by 芷衣
  • Let Go of that Shou by 非天夜翔


I watched:

  • That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: The Movie - Scarlet Bond (2022)
  • That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 2 (2021)  [rewatch]
  • That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: Visions of Coleus (2023)
  • The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic (2024)
  • Haikyu!! 2nd Season (2015)  [rewatch]
  • Haikyu!! 3rd Season (2016)  [rewatch]
  • Haikyu!! To the Top (2020)
  • Haikyu!! Land vs. Air (2020)
  • My Hero Academia Season 3 (2018)  [rewatch]