I Just Want a Romance That's Faster, Better, and More Economical

To save time: In the end, there's no confirmed relationship, not even a purely platonic one like holding hands. Also, the barrier to entry for reading this book is quite high; you need to have read the author's previous book, *The Guide to Conquering a Boring Boy* (now unavailable), and have at least completed two playthroughs of Persona 5 to fully understand the plot before you can grasp the "grand" world-building the author created in Chapter 3. The early part is a fairly standard slice-of-life light comedy, but it noticeably weakens from the middle onwards. It then jumps into setting up the supposed grand finale, which turns out to be a thankless task. Not only does it repeat the mistakes of the previous book, but it also forces dozens of chapters into explaining the lore in the final chapters. There are too many female characters, and almost none of them get a complete storyline (the three minor female leads are entirely based on the previous book; their appearances are only meaningful if you've read the previous book). The characters in page 5 are purely plot devices, their romances are almost negligible, and after explaining the world-building, they're sealed away until the very last few chapters. Then, the ending throws out a huge, forced conclusion, claiming the author has conquered the world. It's a story where the author is exhausted, both for the readers and for the writers themselves.

I first read this book in high school, following it from the first few hundred thousand words until I switched to another book and stopped reading. Now I'm in college and I'm reading it again, and this book is really padded and boring, especially chapters 180-300, which are just filler. The plot doesn't progress at all, and the romance is completely uninteresting. Has this book been heavily revised? When I read it a few years ago, I remember Hayasaka confessing his feelings very early on, and then they broke up. Or maybe I remembered the book wrong. Anyway, the beginning was quite good, but the middle was too padded to continue reading.

The tag was somehow given an orange by some malicious person.

Why is the group gone?