Reviews tagging 'Sexual harassment'

The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl by Tomihiko Morimi

7 reviews

gillthequill's review

adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

 I enjoyed this book. If you enjoyed the Tatami Galaxy books, then you'll enjoy this one, as it takes place in the same universe. This book is harder on the magical realism than the first Tatami Galaxy book, which makes it a good bridge between the first and second Tatami Galaxy books. In fact, I like to believe this story is another version of the Tatami Galaxy books where he never meets Ozu. It was a fun read, I loved the switching perspectives, and I enjoyed how interconnected the stories were. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Sexual harassment

acharis's review

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, and Alcohol

herewegoagain's review

lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual harassment

beebidon's review

funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

The library of Congress entry for this book lists it as a love story, and I suppose that is true. However., much as one of our narrators would like it to be a live story between two people, I would argue it’s a love story to life itself, the vibrant people around us, the life we live together.

This book feels like a warm hug, a platonic snuggle with your dearest friend. It is silly, funny, hopeful, wacky, emotional, and tender. It makes me fall in love with life in a way I haven’t in some time, honestly.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol and Sexual harassment

Minor: Mental illness and Vomit

jarshi's review

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

Yeah, Mr. Morimi, you not slick tryna brush that sexual harassment scene off like it was nothing.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual harassment

imitationlover's review

adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

“Maybe this is another one of God’s plot conveniences.”

Set around and within Kyoto University, this is a whimsical book about the various adventures of the titular Girl and her pining upperclassman that often diverge and intertwine with each other brought upon and influenced by a rapid succession of events and the people around them.  

I loved reading how their adventures escalate without being too convoluted or confusing: there are callbacks to earlier incidents and characters as you read on and I can’t help but wonder which fantastical journey will the Girl walk into next and how her upperclassman will try to walk along with and get her to notice him with varying degrees of success.

All in all, it’s such a fun and fast-paced read. The cast of interesting and quirky characters against the mundane backdrop of university should be jarring and confusing but it’s easy to just walk along with them and witness how their journeys and connections intersect with each other.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual harassment

Girl gets groped by a character but he gets punched for it by her

lazymajou's review against another edition

adventurous challenging slow-paced

2.5

So.. the reason why I scored this book this low is not because it’s not good. The reason is that.. it wasn’t particularly my taste and it was very hard to read. This book has tons of kanjis and N2 grammar structures but what makes it hard to read is that it is kinda abstract. I’ve mentioned before that it reminds me of Bruno Schulz works and what I mean by it is the overwhelming usage of magical realism and abstract concepts to progress the plot. To be honest I wasn’t a fan of Schulz either, this type of writing is just not my cup of tea.

Throughout all of the book author changes the pov pretty much every ~10 pages which is nice, cause we get to know different perspectives but it can be kind of chaotic and I didn’t particularly like any of the characters,,, Which isn’t a problem for me but I just couldn’t make myself care about any of them.

Not to forget that the main male protagonist is just a stalker in my eyes? He’s creepy.

And I do agree that there were some moments that I wasn’t able to fully comprehend (that’s why I give it N1+. My JP teacher also said that this book is hard even for Japanese ppl), I was just too confused. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Sexual harassment

The first chapter was full of drinking and being under an influence,

we also have a guy grabbing one of the main characters and it just.. triggered me. Another character saved her but and the whole thing was just kinda brushed over.

The second chapter was better, it took place in a library but it was slow-paced and boring and times. The third chapter was just pure chaos. The forth (and the last) chapter.. let’s say the ending was a summary of what happened in chapter 3 but I didn’t like the end.