5/27/2023 0 Comments Zaregoto, Book 1 by NisiOisiNObviously, I still prefer Book 2 over this one, as the author seemed to have leveled up upon the completion of the former. Thanks to the interesting interactions between Ii-chan and Kunagisa Tomo, I was not willing to stop reading Book 1. Maybe it was because I immediately began reading this after completing Book 2, which left me in awe of the writing prowess of NisiOisiN. To be honest, I did not find this book as exciting as Book 2. Well, of course, I am just a terrible detective. Kubikiri Cycle is Nisioisin’s debut work, published in 2002 at the age of 20. It was as if everyone was intelligent, which is pretty much not debatable since everyone questionable was a genius of some sort. It’s been years since I read the first volume of Zaregoto and I barely remember anything about it now, so let’s use this space as a general introduction to the series. The crime setup, the web of character relations, and the blinding alibis had me wrongly speculate on who the villain was. Kubikiri Cycle had a larger cast than Kubishime Romanticist, and that fact rather made it difficult for me to get absorbed in the beginning of the story that just briefly introduced the characters. Although I initially did not understand some parts in Book 2 because I would have to read Book 1, I pretty much appreciated the story, characters, and the manner everything was revealed. Book 1 is the second Zaregoto novel that I read, simply because I found Book 2 for sale at a very friendly price and I ended up buying and reading it.
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