Reviews of 18 BL Novels

How is everyone doing? As for me, I am just me.
This is sudden, but I will be reviewing the novels that participated in the novel project I am hosting.

When reading novels, you often come across passages in the middle of the story like, "Come to think of it, the same wind was blowing back then as it is now..."
From there, a flashback to the character's past begins, and the story approaches its core.
Everyone really loves that "me from back then," don't they? Memories, past wounds, sudden disappearances, and so on.
Knowing full well how much that deepens a story, I decided to host a project where you write a novel while throwing away those flashbacks and regressions, under a hellish constraint.
Surprisingly, 18 people took on the challenge.

※ These are strictly my personal impressions.
This is not a grading session to see if you expressed yourself well.
Everyone has their own judgments and interpretations based on their own experience.
New perspectives, ways of reading, and the reader's own life background are born from that.
When you release a work into the world, the interpretations of readers with various criteria add even more background to the story you created.
I believe that is the fun of "having your work read by faceless people."

The reviews I write from here on are addressed to the participating authors, but for those who become interested in the works after reading this, I have made it so you can jump to the novels by clicking the titles.

"Unlike Brothers"Modern Human Drama

Kino Kinoyama-san!

There was a cliché, or perhaps a standard otaku comment, that was popular for a while: "You guys should just get married!" directed at pairs who are obviously in love but don't realize it.
In BL, as someone who believes in brother-complex supremacy (I recommend big younger brothers who are too blind to their older brothers), my response to that phrase is a single choice: Marriage? What's that?
If marriage means becoming a family, then the pairings I like have achieved that since birth.
So, I would just perform a hand-chop gesture to no one in particular and breeze past it, thinking, "Oh, sorry. My favorite pairings have been family since birth, so we don't need to get married!"
However, after reading Kino-san's "Unlike Brothers," I reconsidered whether that interpretation might be a bit off.
Yes, brothers in a BL brother-complex must go from unrequited love to a romantic relationship, and then to marriage to reconstruct their family.
And look, as you can tell from the title of this story, "unlike" means, needless to say, that they don't share blood.
Playing house with the person you love under one roof? What are you supposed to do with that? My brain and lower body would swell with dreams and pop. The process leading up to marriage is delicious.
For now, let's start by picking up the line I dismissed until now.
Kota, Seiji! You guys should get married!!

"The Hands We Held Are Not a Lie"Human Drama

syo⭐︎-san!

When reading a story about someone reaching out to help with painful issues of obsession within a family, I become curious about the perspective from which people are reading it.
The author, syo⭐︎-san, writes from the perspective of the "middle-aged man" who reaches out to protect the wounded boy, but I'm sure many people empathize with "Eik," the one being reached out to and protected.
As for me, I am a troublesome reader who reads with a distracted perspective, wondering about the father who appeared at the end to take Eik back from the middle-aged man: "Dad, what's going on? What happened to you, too?"
I can't say everything, but when a third party in a story like this also has their own problems... I stop reading with my hand on my chin and realize, this is BL, so you can just read that sudden middle-aged man as a villain interfering between two people in love.
When you write while sealing off past regressions, hints about the characters' backgrounds are stripped away, the reality right in front of you stands out painfully, and you can even feel the raw breath of the people moving in the background, making you unable to ignore any of them, which is a testament to the author's skill in planning.
There is a tendency for obsessive relationships to be considered good in the BL world, but the final decision made by the middle-aged man and Eik out of mutual care is impressive; it is a brilliant decision by people who can care for others for their own sake.
And, Eik's dad. If it's painful, Nami-san, shall I listen to your story?

"Don't Look Back"Youth

Tanso/Hai to Diamond-san!

Hey Hayato. Aren't you a bit too good of a guy for your age?
Souta, you too? You can be a bit more greedy, you know?
I usually take the style of raising my arms at sticky, complicated adult romances and chasing after them, shouting, "If you dawdle, you'll end up in the graveyard!" but when it comes to the ambiguous relationships and frustration of youth stories, I turn into a meddlesome old lady who speaks directly into the hearts of the characters. Getting old is a nuisance.
You know, this old lady also likes young people who prioritize the current situation and future of the person they love over their own ego. But if I were to proudly cheer them on here, I might be called a cradle-snatcher, so I keep quiet.
There are two things I want to tell these two young people. First, in young love, just run!
A red light? Are you stupid? In front of youth, that's just a glowing red stick! If you get distracted by that, you'll have your favorite man's stick taken! If you look back here, you'll end up writing an old man's BL about a life full of entanglements!
Old lady will buy you shoes, is that it? Is that what you want? Shun-soku?
Don't stop, run through it. But there is one more thing I have to tell you two as you become adults.
There are a certain number of people who love classic BL who like the entanglements of the past, or the kind of muddy obsession where they can't run and end up committing double suicide together; in fact, it might be the majority.
Keep that in mind when thinking about your path. That's all from this old lady.

"Spring Comes Around"Work-related/Human Drama

Kisaragi Fuyo-san!

When I launched the BL project, and authors started to test the waters little by little.
I was asked by Kashiko-jo, who is probably the longest-serving participant, "Is my work really BL?" and I answered.
"If there are men in the work holding heavy emotions, it's BL. In the first place, the premise of this project is BL, so readers will read it that way on their own, so it's fine."
Looking back, that's a crazy extreme argument, but even if the author didn't intend it to be BL, readers will read it as BL if there are a few nice-looking men messing around, and it's not impossible for a pairing to form in the reader's brain where the author didn't intend it.
That's the realm of secondary creation, but if you read Kisaragi-san's work this time with that interpretation, it's delicious two or three times over.
Even if you think the elements are a bit thin, readers will add a dash of their own BL soy sauce: "Whoa, a love in old age with the grandpa teacher is also delicious! Oh, is that a hint of a blonde, blue-eyed handsome man at the edge of the stage that has nothing to do with the story...? Chaotic times! Chaotic times!"
BL is not just about things where the pairing is clearly understood.
A good BL work can also be one where you can imagine even the mobs at the edge of the stage that the author didn't write.
In any case, a delicious BL meal is also determined by the sense of immersion created by the author's expressive power. Kisaragi-san, thank you for the meal!

"Years"Human Drama

Hoshikuzu-san!

If it's a short-short, I don't need memories, but for stories with a decent word count, I do want a bit of memory.
Moreover, writing a romance without using flashbacks or regression is quite difficult.
However, Hoshikuzu-san broke through this by using repetition, like in 'Memento,' which depicts the struggles of a protagonist who can only retain memories for 10 minutes, and by unfolding the story like a chronological table, depicted the painful, unrequited love of the characters throughout their lives.
That's the kind of comment I made.
Actually, while reading, THE虎舞竜's 'Road' was playing in my brain the whole time.
Could it be that you're going to keep this tempo until about chapter 14, Hoshikuzu-san? I'm going to empathize with Tyler and end up crying.
Rather than the secret longing of the protagonist Tyler for Lance, which is written out with the repeatedly used 'Suddenly, when I look back, there...', the ordinary happiness that Lance gains—marriage, children—every time he looks back also reminds me of the horror genre that was popular back in the day where things slowly get closer.
It would be fine if it proceeded romantically, like 'Suddenly, when I look back, there stands Lance, who should be dead, in his most radiant form,' but wasn't the rule for this project no flashbacks or regression? Still, that 'Road' reference is pretty old.
In the afterword article you added, Hoshikuzu-san, you wrote about it too, but I'm also dragging my memories around.

“The Missing Piece”Human Drama

Tokage🦎-san!

While reading Tokage-san's novel, I realized that Western music doesn't really sing about the past in such detail, does it?
The setting of the novel is rainy London, and the characters are searching for their ideal 'sound,' so I was partly drawn in by that, but the good thing about Western music is that even when singing about past mistakes or terrible people, it becomes a song of the 'now,' putting into words the emotions the current self wants to throw at that person or memory.
In contrast, Japanese songs often have sentimental lyrics influenced by memories, or songs about people you still love even after breaking up.
Even the great Mr. Children live in a world where they lament to an ex-girlfriend, 'Don't become more beautiful than you are now,' whereas Western countries boast, 'You are beautiful now that you've broken up with me.' The way they settle painful pasts is remarkably different.
I don't read Tokage-san's novels regularly, so I don't know, but if you are matching your writing style and thoughts to the setting and background, that's an amazing power of imitation.
I was about to say that triumphantly, but then I thought, 'Ah, Nami-san. Tokage always does it like this,' and it would be uncool if that was the response. So I kept quiet in the comments.
But when I read it again for the review, the fine details are indeed properly written in.
Yes, British English is elegant but can be grating, right? And speaking of London, the rain and fog, that dampness and the song selection in the work are also great.
What I want to say is that the novel also has its own ideal 'sound'.

“Go.”Human Drama

Kazu-da Akira-san!

It seems that people in the depths of despair can easily absorb Dostoevsky or Osamu Dazai, which are usually hard to get into.
As the 'Despair Sommelier' Hiroki Kashiragi says, just as you have an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, and soy sauce for cold tofu, similar emotions are more of a salvation than the exact opposite.
That's why the act of encouraging someone who is depressed is very difficult, and those who have memories of being just as desperate themselves can empathize without resorting to clumsy sympathy.
And the worst thing you can do at a time like this is to steal the conversation by saying, 'Well, for me...' or 'Yeah, my senior at work...'
The protagonist of this 'Go.' is 'I,' who has effectively suffered a heartbreak after the person he liked got a girlfriend and stood him up, and by chance, he meets Soji, a man who sells positive words on the street.
At first, he felt sick at the words written on the colored paper, but his eyes are drawn to the 'Love' colored paper written in plain, unadorned characters.
The part that struck me the most was how Soji treats 'I'.
He doesn't pry, he lets him talk just enough, and he sincerely returns the response he thinks of.
The words being sold might be common, template-like positive words, but the words Soji returns to 'I' are all his own unadorned, loving words.
More than kindness, it's thoughtfulness. I felt that Kazuda-san, who wrote this, must also be someone who has overcome many nights that wouldn't end.
By the way, if I were to sell words at a street stall, it would be 'Ichimotsu' (member) and 'Panty.' That is also my unadorned heart.

“Gentle Abyss”Human Drama

Okano Yukiko (formerly: Henkou)-san!

Writing about the past without regressing to the past—Okano-san quickly found a loophole in this theme's constraints and rode a time machine.
Yes, that's right.
If you really want to write a sequel (a continuation of the story you wrote last month), you should just set the stage in the past in the first place! You could find one or two Doraemons for that.
Well, if there were a solid Nobita-kun like Okano-san, Dora-chan would be bored, but she successfully rode a time machine back to their college days and wrote about how the characters first met!
Well, we had exchanged comments when participating, so I stared into the space-time rift thinking 'It's coming,' and I was waiting for it on the day of the post, but when I started reading, I was completely defeated.
What a perfect piece of foreshadowing!
I thought Takumi's 'true feelings' mentioned in the synopsis would be told through their dazzling campus life, but it ended with just giving more hints without writing it!
And you're not going to write it?!
My retort cuts through the air! No, that's not it... this is the biggest setup waiting for a retort.
It's in the middle of a long, long 'nori-tsukkomi' (a comedic routine of playing along and then retorting) where you keep setting it up and carrying the punchline over!
I was completely played!

“The Second Choice Always Comes Back to Me”Contemporary Romance

Nagisa Iru-san!

The romance dramas that used to air on Monday nights at 9 PM were always trendy.
When I read Iru-san's BL, I somehow immerse myself in the trendy romance situations I longed for back then.
Watching a romance drama in the living room with tea and rice crackers, having finished my bath a little early, and drying my hair with a hairdryer in a hurry while it's still damp—I return to those days.
In reality, the time I read the novel is morning or afternoon, but my mood is completely Monday at 9 PM.
What kind of love situation is it this time? What? 'Second choice x Second choice'?
Focusing on the romance between the second choices who get together in the shadow of the main couple, usually around episode 6 of a 9-episode romance drama!
I quickly think of the casting, the second choice, the second choice guy's casting... Eiji Akaso! Hey everyone! This novel has Eiji Akaso in it!
But this is a problem. Hiroya, who has been rumored to be with many people and is beaten down after being made a second choice, is not the serious and devoted second choice that Eiji Akaso would play.
In the first place, Hiroya is a muscular glasses guy, not Akaso.
Then, the devoted Mahiro, who is patiently waiting while releasing the weakened Hiroya, is Eiji Akaso.
And Hiroya is... macho, glasses? Ma Dong-seok? Ah! Our own Ryohei Suzuki...! He's not in Iru-san's novel.
Is it Koji Seto? The day ends while I'm doing this.

“Stepping In”Romance

Ichigo-san!

Putting aside the debate about the position of women in BL for a moment, I was curious about the three-person formation of one girl and two boys.
In storytelling, a trio is a number that is kind to both readers and writers.
'The Three Little Pigs,' 'THE 3 Meisama,' 'THE ALFEE'—I talked about this with a follower who likes Western music before, but there are many songs with titles that repeat the same word three times, or repeat the same phrase three times in the song (like Maki Ohguro's 'La La La').
There are many manga and dramas centered on trios, and even if there are as many characters as in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, three of them tend to be the focus.
The basic design is a couple of a man and a woman + a second choice Eiji Akaso (see Nagisa Iru-san's review).
But if Akaso is there, the title of this novel would become 'Not Stepping In'.
Because Akaso is well-suited to that salty rain, muttering 'I knew it' while watching the two who were just friends on the other side of the crosswalk kiss on a public road without caring about people's eyes.
Let's have Akaso-kun go home.
Now, if I compare it to my specialty, 3-on-3 basketball, the relationship between the three works precisely because each has a clear role: handler, shooter, defender. This feels right.
But rugged basketball doesn't suit Ichigo-san's style. Hmm.
Sakurai is delicate, Sakazaki is skillful, and Takamizawa looks like a housewife. THE ALFEE is my final answer.

“Captive of the Black Tower Mansion”Mystery, broad office romance

Kashiko-san!

Regarding Tuxedo Mask from the legendary manga 'Sailor Moon,' everyone must have thought at least once:
Why can't you realize that Usagi Tsukino and the Sailor Moon she transforms into are the same person?
Since it's a riddle on par with the mystery of the continent of Mu, I'll omit the details, but as a standard scene, a scene where the two who usually dislike each other are bickering is always inserted.
I thought maybe they don't remember each other's faces because they dislike each other so much that they say 'I don't even want to see your face!', or maybe Sailor Moon is fine, but he has no interest in Usagi, so he doesn't remember her face.
But humans actually remember the faces of people they dislike more clearly than people they like, because both emotions have a strong influence on your heart.
The protagonist, a man trapped in the 'Black Tower Mansion,' which has been designated as a cultural asset or something, is with a colleague who seems to downplay the situation of being trapped together, and even at a time like this, he doesn't care and keeps pushing his affection onto him.
Alone in the dark mansion, the colleague's expression, seen for the first time in a while, looks somewhat happy.
Instead of breaking the situation, he even feels like he's enjoying it.
Detailed facial settings aren't written, but that's precisely why you can infer the eeriness and the suspicion of love.
Judging from the implications regarding the truth of the final twist, I'm betting on mutual love.
Because the colleague is deep within the protagonist's brain, enough to easily bind his freedom in his mind regardless of the situation, and I can also read a deep-seated obsession to keep him all to himself.

By the way, Tuxedo Mask is not an 'every-night masquerade' cosplay guy who starts a battle while Sailor Moon is busy saving the Earth from evil every night, but a guardian deity of the Earth who is protecting the woman he loves due to fate from a past life and seems to have amnesia.

“Nameless,”Lyrical Horror

Fujima-san!

What is the most common setting for a ghost story? A school at night? A graveyard? A tragic accident site?
Nope, nope! Actually, it's a ramen shop.
Nowadays, they are overflowing with inbound tourists and prices have skyrocketed, but ramen was originally cheap and delicious, making it an ally during lean, struggling times. It's packed with memories of meals eaten on nights when life had pushed me around and left me beaten, or as the final bowl after drinking too much sake.
Besides, everyone is preoccupied with their own business and not looking at those around them. Once they've eaten and are full, they pay and leave. The shop owner and the customer next to you are looking at their empty ramen bowls more than at your face.
In such an indifferent shop, a junior who shows interest in you, a meaningful remark, the secret of the extra green onions.
It's a ramen shop horror story where the protagonist's pain, which is slowly unraveled from there, is felt more keenly by the reader than by the protagonist themselves.
Come to think of it, they say a ghost is at its most vivid while it's still clearly visible, and then it gradually fades from the face. People forget the existence of others starting from their faces, and that's when the ghost's—or rather, the soul's—second death arrives.
That's why funeral portraits are of the face.
If you read Fujima-san's story with this meaning in mind, the final scene with the 'sketchbook' becomes an incredibly heartbreaking and gentle, extraordinary love story.
Well, everyone has their own way of reading and interpreting things, so this is just my interpretation.
By the way, the reason ghosts gather at ramen shops is that they come to eat one last bowl of life's final meal before attaining nirvana. That's why there are no earthbound spirits at ramen shops; it's a place for happy departed souls to stop by.
And treating them to a final bowl as a parting gift is the destiny of a ramen shop owner, and it seems there is no greater honor than that.

'Residual Snow' SF

Ohashi Chiyo-san!

Wait, let me scream just once.
YUNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
For those who haven't read it, I'll explain briefly: it's a doomsday-like story where Zansetsu, who has enough survival skills to support the neighbors three houses down on a deserted island, and the slightly dazed Tadashi get caught up in a bizarre phenomenon where the landscape collapses in an incredibly desperate, over-the-top way.
The story progresses from the point where one girl, the slightly spirited Yuna, joins them.
I am of the school of thought that in BL, women are justice.
The reason is that I don't read BL in the first place, so whether there's a girl or not, if the story turns out interesting, I consider that the Mount Everest of my brain.
There are stories that stand out because there's a perceptive woman. You place a woman in an important position, make the 'uke' (bottom), who is in the same position in bed, feel a flutter, and like coffee as a secret ingredient in curry, you make the reader think, 'Wouldn't that be bitter if you put that in?'—and then, the woman's decisiveness is delicious!
As for the development, in non-BL stories, there are many patterns where a man and a woman survive, leading to 'Adam and Eve who will leave descendants!', but this is a world of Adam x Adam.
Don't think, 'Then the world will perish!' Even with Adam and Adam, the world can be saved.
I see! This is our BL world! There's no convenient plot device like 'men get pregnant,' nor is there a slightly arrogant double suicide of 'if we have each other,' but the two love each other in the 'now.' This scene was stylish.
But surely, in the background of the final scene, like the ending of a battle manga foreshadowing a new chapter, a slightly translucent Yuna is giving a thumbs up and smiling.

'Paul the Alien' SF

Yoshida Nareshika-san!

I wonder how many people have actually seen the comedy movie with the same title.
Simply put, it's a common enough comedy where two men protect an alien and get into a flurry of trouble.
I don't just throw masochistic prompts at everyone; I sometimes give individual assignments based on the flow of the conversation. This time, I added 'Paul the Alien' to Yoshida-san (hereafter referred to as 'Boku-chin,' his usual nickname) in addition to the same opening and constraints as everyone else.
Needless to say, the basic rule for submissions is original work.
I threw in a Hollywood movie of the same name, shouted like a drill sergeant, 'No fan fiction allowed, okay?', clapped my hands to say 'Focus, focus!', and left.
It's like telling Choshu Koriki, 'No impersonating Choshu Riki, okay?' and pushing him onto a sold-out stage.
It's okay. Nami-san, I'm not mad, you know? Boku-chin maintains that stance, but even though I added the constraint, I was nervous inside.
After all, pro wrestling is a world where 'anything goes' as long as it's exciting, and you can't expect to be thrown into a barbed-wire electric cage deathmatch alone and keep laughing forever.

But Yoshida, this guy, he actually did it.

He didn't lose to the rain, didn't lose to the wind, didn't run away into comedy, and finished it as a grand story that even touched on world affairs, like something between equality and parity.
This might not be a review, but I want to praise Boku-chin's achievement. Bravo!

'Fragment' Pure Literature (Style)

Tsuki wa Higashi ni-san!

Tsuki-san writes stories with a development where she fills them with memories as if every day is graduation day, and then keeps reflecting on them.
In a sense, this person might have had the hardest time this time.
And she always produces high-quality heartbroken middle-aged men who can't move on and keep covering up their bitter pasts with the passage of time, shipping them to me every month.
I'll say it in advance, the protagonist of the story is not these heartbroken middle-aged men. I'm just picking them up on my own.
How is this month's heartbroken middle-aged man?
Hmm, Tsuki-san's specialty: family problems and painful heartbreak, and a portrait decorated with tears and boiled-down lingering attachment! Isn't this a situation that BL fans can't resist? Behind that, a heartbroken middle-aged man (father) holding a bowl of simmered food filled with the dregs of heartbreak!!
Listen here, middle-aged man, youth is fast.
If you don't hold your crush's hand tightly and run through it so you don't get left behind, you'll only have regrets. Nami-san told you that at 'Hai to Diamond'-san's place too, right?
But you know, the white rice eaten secretly at midnight with a heartbroken middle-aged man who has simmered in lingering attachment is delicious.
If possible, I'd like to pour the broth of 'the you of that day whom we should have left behind without being able to fully seek each other' over it, make it a refreshing heartbroken cat-rice, and slurp it down together.
It has nothing to do with the main story, but the heartbroken middle-aged man I imagine Tsuki-san creating orders a Blue Moon at a bar with only four counter seats in an alley a little ways from his company building, and warms his cheek with a single tear, thinking, 'What am I doing at my age...'
Run tomorrow. Youth comes as many times as you make it happen. Give up on your Achilles tendon due to your age, and chase the man you love even if it ruptures.

'Goodnight Blue' Modern Travel Fiction

Toujo Toshiki-san!

I thought halfway through the story that the Mongolian plains were the perfect location to move life forward.
When things are tough, maybe it's better to be spoiled, but when you can be spoiled, you still have some energy left, and since the protagonist of this novel is still struggling with energy to spare, I'm convinced he dared to come to see the harsh environment and the vast scenery.
Yes, my head is a bit fuzzy in the middle of collecting the project's novels. Rather, while reading this novel, I also want to go to Mongolia and feel the nothingness of the grasslands, the endless deserts, and the continental wind!
Coming from an island nation, you can't feel things like borders, you know.
The key point of the story is the imaginary friend.
You brought out something troublesome, Toujo-san! But if you're going to finish it as a story about someone moving forward without looking back or returning to the past, I'll call out to Alexa while thinking you've twisted the technique.
'Alexa, play some Mongolian-sounding music... Hey Siri, did I get a notification about the ticket resale status?'
And then I suddenly think, when I'm giving instructions to AI, I kind of give off the vibe of talking to an imaginary friend.
When I think about that, this novel suddenly gains a sense of realism, and because Alexa played Mongol800's 'Anata ni,' I ended up shouting 'Senpai!' in the final scene too.
It's not that I left the past behind, but that I was left behind in the past. So there's only one thing to do: I must move forward toward happiness.
People often say that time heals all wounds, but in the end, people can only move forward when their hearts are captivated by new encounters. It's a good story; I want the protagonist to move forward.
And, Alexa. Mongol800 isn't Mongolian-sounding.

'Inexpressible' Fantasy

Naru-san!

My nephew, who learned the kanji for 'tree' (ki) when he became a first grader, was told by his teacher to write his surname 'Kashiwagi' in kanji, and he wrote 'Kashiwa' and then added a dakuten (voicing mark) to the 'tree' at the end.
I see, if you leave it like that, it's 'Kashiwaki,' right? I felt heartwarming, but I thought that the on-yomi and kun-yomi readings are truly a Japanese culture without kindness.
Even so, the dakuten my nephew added is definitely 'Kashiwagi,' and I think it's a kanji with emotion and expression that shows consideration so that the person who sees it can read it without making a mistake.
The kanji for 'laugh' (wara) designed to look like the smile of the person written in a picture letter is an emotion, but my nephew's 'tree' with a dakuten shows human sincerity.
People can turn humans into characters through episodes and attachments like that, or find emotions in them, but Haruto, the novelist in this story, can only see the world through characters from birth.
It wouldn't matter if every living creature saw things the same way he does, but naturally, that's not the case. The loneliness of his suffering is bottomless.
But you can't say for sure that people can never change their perspective. Like the dakuten my nephew added, impressions can change depending on your feelings for someone.
I hope that someday, Kaoru, the editor in charge who appears in his eyes, will become not just the kanji 'Kaoru' but also 'love' or 'like.'
And if I ever have the chance to face Haruto, I decided to learn from tomorrow how to disguise myself from an 'open pervert' to a 'closet pervert' so I wouldn't be perceived as a 'pervert'.

'I Was Chased by a Dragon Before I Knew It ~I Transferred to Another World and Started a Journey~ Road Edition' Isekai Transfer

Romi Amemiya!

Romi is the one who sparked this round's strict constraint of "no flashbacks or regression"!!
Perhaps everyone struggled with it because they were all a bit concerned about that same aspect, and it's amazing how Romi noticed it early and sealed it off to increase the number of moves.
And, have you noticed?
They are writing the continuation of the previous story this time, and they are also skilled at using the synopsis.
They take the flow from the previous part, advance the story a little, and then the main text starts smoothly from the sentence following the synopsis.
What is this, it feels so good.
The expression is crude, but the most satisfying way to put it is that it's like a single, smooth, uninterrupted poop. Like, "Oh, I just wrote the letter 'shi'."
After binding us not to look back at the past, they provided a wonderful opening that even relieved my constipation from being forced to look back at the start!
The sense of speed from there! It wasn't as intense as the last time when I realized I was flying around on a dragon, but this time they slowed down the adventure a bit and put the romance mode at full throttle! Hey, did you notice? Carrying someone sideways means a princess carry, you know?
Moreover, the protagonist is worried about what they really want to do—thinking, "I'm just a freeter who can't do anything, I can't jump out anywhere." They are so depressed that a grasshopper in the grass is making a better leap, and then they are told, "Being together like this is more reassuring than being alone."
Thank you, Romi. With this, I can also resolve the foreshadowing from Kino's review that I wrote first.

You guys, just get married.

If you want to read everything at once, check out this article.
It is an anthology article that includes everything.

The next theme announcement will be on Monday, March 23rd.

I forgot to mention,the next theme announcement will be on Monday, March 23rd.
If you would like to participate, please declare your participation in that "Challengers Wanted!" article by saying you're ready to do it!

From 10:00 PM on March 28th,I will be hosting a Space with participant Kashiko to introduce the novels submitted for the project!
If you have an account and have the time, please feel free to come and listen, as I won't be saying anything too serious.
The archive will remain on Kashiko's account, so please follow them as well if you are interested.