[#CreativeAwardImpressions] Ipponmatsu High School Kendo Club: Sword of Sincerity
This is a review of "Ipponmatsu High School Kendo Club: Sword of Sincerity" by kokoro_hashiru, who is participating in the TALES Creative Award Romance Novel category. I have also written a recommendation review on TALES!
This is a work currently being serialized as part of the "Yomi-Ai" project. If you want to experience the dazzling youth depicted by kokoro_hashiru, click the TALES link above!
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This work is a twin novel, a serialized format written with usagi. By reading it as a set with usagi's "Ipponmatsu High School Kendo Club: Itsuki's Sword," I was able to fully enjoy the different perspectives. I really want you to experience the wonder of twin novels✨
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It is a dazzling youth novel where ordinary high school students worry, participate in club activities, and experience heart-fluttering moments in an ordinary way.
Being "ordinary" is actually very difficult. No one knows what the standard should be. There are as many versions of "ordinary" as there are people. Have you ever been confused when someone said, "It's just normal, right?" I have. That's why I usually don't use the word "ordinary" in my reviews.
However, I wanted to use "ordinary" for this work by kokoro. This is because it unfolds a story that made even me, who wasn't very enthusiastic about club activities, look back and think, "High school life is just like this."
High school days? That's youth, right?
High school days? Common worries, right?
High school days? You can't decide things on your own, right?
Those kinds of thoughts kept arising in my heart while reading. It must be because it conveyed the earnest lives of high school students who are neither children nor adults. Reading this work makes me feel like I can look back on my own youth, along with a sense of empathy.
There is nothing as amazing as being "ordinary." That is why I want to convey my respect to kokoro by saying, "Thank you for depicting ordinary high school students."
The distance and affection toward parents, which are casually depicted in this work, are different from those of the high school girl depicted by usagi. It was interesting to see how different it is between boys and girls, even though both protagonists are cherished by their parents. The differences that can only be obtained through twin novels were well-expressed not only in the relationships with parents but also in friendships and subtle emotions.
I wasn't very enthusiastic about club activities, so I haven't experienced the sense of fulfillment the protagonist has, but while reading, I fondly recalled my own past. The shops I visited with friends on the way home from school, the days we laughed until we cried over silly things. Those memories came rushing back as I followed the high school students breathing within the work.
This is a refreshing youth novel that I recommend to anyone who wants to re-experience their high school days.
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Serialized on TALES starting Tuesday, May 11th.
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I'm happy that the overall ranking is looking pretty good. I wonder if there has ever been a pond snail as loved as this one?
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