[#CreativeAwardReview] A protagonist so hot they'll burn you!

For today's first entry, I will be writing a review of Sakura Kageyama's "I Knew Nothing." This story is "hot" from beginning to end.

When you become a working adult, you often end up doing things half-heartedly, don't you? You do your job without question because it's the established rule, and you collect your paycheck. Unless you have a great deal of passion, I suspect many people try to finish their work while minimizing friction with others.

When I was an employee, I used to imagine my department manager was a "bean" to endure unreasonable tasks. I feel like I spent my days turning anger into laughter and working just enough to earn my salary.

“Manager, you're a bean, so you've rolled away and gone missing.”
“Manager, you're a bean, but you're so troublesome because you keep hopping around.”

I managed to get through tough shifts by being helped by the delusions swirling in my brain. Even if you don't harbor crazy delusions like I did, many people work while suppressing their frustration at the unreasonable things that arise, right?

Please say there are many!

As someone who is always deeply interested in the state of mind of working people, I happened to come across Sakura Kageyama's "I Knew Nothing." I had no choice but to enjoy reading it.

The protagonist, Remi Kisaragi, actually carries out "shouting, screaming, and running," racing through the novel to expose corporate corruption. Even though it's a workplace story, her performance is like that of a "hero from another world."

How many times did I feel nervous watching her suddenly stand up during work and glare back at her boss before rushing out? As a reader, I think "Go for it!", but if you were working with her, you would surely find her unconventional behavior troublesome.

If I were working with her, I would have been bewildered, thinking, "Huh? Kisaragi-san? What about your work?" If you are the type of person who just wants to finish the job in front of you and get paid, you might not want to work with her.

However, because the author's passionate feelings come through via Remi Kisaragi, you can read it all in one go. Since specialized knowledge is scattered throughout, it was difficult for a layperson like me to correctly understand Remi Kisaragi's anger, but I think I was able to finish it because it's a workplace novel that feels like an adventure story.

People with specialized knowledge can accurately understand the protagonist's anger and enjoy it, and readers without that knowledge should be able to enjoy it by thinking, "This is hot!" It was a novel that made me feel like I wish I had more knowledge.

Even after becoming a working adult, isn't it okay to be passionate!

That's the kind of novel it was. Since we are alive, we want to see and experience those moments when we get fired up, don't we?

Sakura Kageyama also introduced the recommendation review I posted on TALES👇

Thank you very much. I heard you also post fantasy novels, so please let me come and read them later.