Reviews - ライチ☆光クラブ [Litchi ☆ Hikari Club]

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ライチ☆光クラブ [Litchi ☆ Hikari Club]

Usamaru Furuya

3.48 AVERAGE

fresnocrawlin's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

thegrumpiestofshoobs's review against another edition

4.75

dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

alexvb's review against another edition

4.0

dark sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

I finally read it! I was a fan of the play back in 2016 and have seen the movie too. Both the play and the movie follow the story very very faithfully. It was nice finally getting another book in Japanese read.

There was an extra scene in this which I have never seen in either version and for good reason because it was absolutely fucking horrifying and related to a child (an actual child, not a middle schooler like the rest of the cast).

Definitely trigger warning in here for child mutilation, murder, sexual assault, and graphic depictions of violence.

Content Warnings

dkrael's review against another edition

3.25

challenging dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

pheebabeeba_'s review against another edition

I did actually finish this book. I decided to say I didn’t because I don’t want to give it a rating. A slasher type horror about middle schoolers who despise adults and admire beauty and youth. If you don’t like pevertisism, I don’t suggest you read this.

dazieday's review against another edition

4.0

um no comment tbh

kashila's review against another edition

4.0

dark funny

Content Warnings

cloroxcrew's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Content Warnings

sebseb's review against another edition

3.0

I don’t know if exploitation manga is a thing, but this is it. Fascism, violence, and homosexuality are some of the main taboos on display courtesy of a sadistic club of middle-school boys building a robot in a secret hideout somewhere in the depths of an abstract, oppressively industrial factory town. The substance is a boring mess of clichéed pacing techniques and stolen narratives cobbled together to prop up the style, which is deliberately melodramatic and superficial, and just about worth the rest. The boys’ fetishization of beauty and youth as part of their violent fanaticism has strong echoes of Yukio Mishima in it, but unlike his work the theatricality and 2-d characters keep the reader at a cynical distance, like we’re watching somebody else’s bad dream. That’s probably for the best though.

read if you like: grand guignol, frankenstein’s robot, beauty and the ‘bot, hitler youth
avoid if you like: nice things

wishy_washy's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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