adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous emotional sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark emotional fast-paced
dark emotional tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

WOAH. Asagiri has done it again. My heart is shattered into pieces but I’m also happy? Very good book, so insane, highly recommend for Chuuya fans. Also recommend getting tissues to go with it.

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Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

poor ginger

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challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This is definitely my favorite light novel. Chuuyas backstory is literally devastating, and the flags make me so sad. Many tears were shed lol. Verlaine also made me really sad in the end. 
“You sound like you're certain he's human."
"I am." Dazai sighed, smiling. “There's no way I could hate a man-made character string this much.”
emotional funny mysterious sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Chuuya is my favourite character so maybe I’m a little bias but even if he wasn’t I’m sure I’d still love this masterpiece, easily my favourite light novel out of all the ones I’ve read  it was such an easy read and so enjoyable but also made me want to crawl into a hole and die because Chuuya did not deserve that.

I always like to think how Chuuya’s life would be if the flags were still alive the fact he loses everyone important to him in his life kills me.

I absolutely adored Adam and Chuuya’s relationship and would kill to see Adam in the manga I love him so much he deserves the world.
dark emotional funny mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes