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Seriously, who purchased that Legends & Lattes book? Who looked at that and decided “Yeah, I’m gonna spend money on that”? Because there must have been enough of them that the prequel can afford advertisements.

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Thoughts on 100 Girlfriends:

Hakari: I keep forgetting what her gimmick is, especially now that Hahari is her but massively ramped up and incestuous.

Karane: It’s not like I like her or anything.

Shizuka: Cute and mute. I like the bunny theming.

Nano: Best Rationalist protag, 10/10.

Kusuri: Plot contrivances and piss jokes. At least the loli thing isn’t played up too much.

Hahari: predatory bisexual who wants to fuck her daughter. Credit for saving Mei’s life tho.

Kurumi: Her central joke is too pun-based to translate well, but she’s a good straight-man to the wackier characters.

Mei: Somehow ends up being the most serious character. Has some good chapters about her neuroses.

Iku: I’m not kink-shaming, I’m only-one-joke-shaming.

Mimimi: Best NPD character since Rayfa Khurain.

Meme: Plushies are so much better than logs with jackets on them.

Chiyo: doesn’t get to do much now that Kishika is the primary character who acts childish and then feels humiliated about it.

Naddy: Eh, I don’t see the humor in her. I like how incredibly tolerant she is, though.

Yamame: Clumsy giants can be lovely maidens too. Not especially funny, but likable enough.

Momiji: Has no personality, but managed to completely break Uto’s composure, so she can stay.

Yaku: A good contrast in worldview to the younger characters.

Kishika: The mental regression thing kinda weirds me out, honestly.

Ahko: Her blood pressure issues are hashtag relatable.

Uto: 99% of writers would not be smart enough to pull off this character, and I’m impressed this one can properly portray her unique brand of “logic.” Probably the character I most resemble, as much as I hate to admit it.

Mai: Feels more like Mei’s girlfriend than Rentarou’s. I like when she talks about how she hates Rentarou and loves him at the same time.

Momoha: Did you know it was possible to write Ohya Ichiko and not have her suck? Somehow has the healthiest relationship with her own sexuality out of all the characters.

Rin: The romance genre doesn’t really play to her strengths. She’d be better off slaughtering demons with a katana.

Suu: Boring and pointless.

Eira: I guess I prefer a warrior who keeps becoming terrified to a warrior who keeps becoming infantile.

Tama: Yup, the author went there. I want to follow her on Tumblr.

Kiki: Running out of weird gimmicks, the author made a character whose gimmick is that she keeps trying to find weird gimmicks. I’m not impressed so far, but it’s early.

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My central problem with military sci-fi authors is that they all seem like they’ve never heard of a Vriska kinnie. They write worlds where both soldiers and civilians are essentially “normal,” and any human villains are still “normal” in a slanted way, and really weird people don’t exist even among the civilians.