"...Whew."
After spending half a day finishing the first volume of Kara no Kyoukai as soon as he got it, Suzuki Hideyuki let out a deep sigh.
As a reader of Shonen Jump, he had never read a light novel before.
After the 5th chapter of Fate/stay night was released, he was stunned by Saber's debut, and from that moment on, he became a die-hard fan of FSN and Mochizuki-sensei.
Later, he also read Mochizuki-sensei's short manga Weathering with You. He liked that short manga very much as well and was full of praise for the story Mochizuki-sensei told and the artwork.
This time, he purchased Kara no Kyoukai on the day of its release, naturally out of love and support for Mochizuki-sensei.
However, in the process of reading, he gradually became engrossed in it.
Although he had never read a light novel before and didn't understand what level Kara no Kyoukai stood at within the light novel landscape.
But for him, this light novel provided a novel and interesting reading experience.
The first tankobon volume of Kara no Kyoukai contains three chapters: "Overlooking View," "Murder Speculation (Part 1)," and "Remaining Sense of Pain," each telling a different story.
It was indeed as advertised in Shonen Jump; Kara no Kyoukai shares the same worldview as FSN, with the story unfolding around the concepts of mystery, magecraft, and magi that appeared in FSN.
And in the story, one can see quite a bit of detailed setting content explaining the three concepts mentioned above.
Being able to see these settings that are related to FSN but were not detailed in FSN was enough to satisfy any FSN fan.
But more importantly, even putting those contents aside, the content of Kara no Kyoukai itself is interesting enough.
The novel uses the ordinary person Kokutou Mikiya as the main perspective, but the story revolves around the heroine, Ryougi Shiki, recounting how they encounter and resolve various mysterious events existing in the city.
But such a summary is still too simple.
Or rather, after reading it the first time, he was actually still a bit confused about a lot of the content, especially the parts involving many technical terms, which Mochizuki-sensei wrote quite obscurely and difficultly to understand.
However, these obscure parts did not particularly affect the reading experience; on the contrary, combined with Mochizuki-sensei's unique writing style, they formed a very special sense of immersion that belongs to Kara no Kyoukai.
Speaking of Mochizuki-sensei's unique writing style, it was actually subtly reflected in the various character lines and narration in FSN, but it wasn't particularly obvious.
Now, in this light novel Kara no Kyoukai, it is finally displayed to the fullest.
He is not a writer, so it is difficult for him to accurately describe the other person's writing style.
To him, Mochizuki-sensei's writing style gives him a cold, precise, yet very delicate feeling, rich in a unique poetic quality, and it fits the content of the whole novel very well.
Therefore, while reading, even if there is a lot of obscure and difficult-to-understand content, he is still able to easily immerse himself in the world and atmosphere created by the other person's words.
In short—
"...Amazing!"
He could only let out such an exclamation in the end.
Although he initially bought Kara no Kyoukai purely to support Akira, he now truly likes this story.
Even after finishing it once, he still felt unsatisfied.
Especially for the parts he hadn't quite figured out during the first reading, he really wanted to read it again immediately and savor it more carefully.
It's a pity that it's too late now, and he has to go to work tomorrow.
So he could only put down the novel with some reluctance and prepare to wash up and go to sleep.
Besides—
"Mochizuki-sensei really is amazing."
He couldn't help but exclaim again.
It's hard to imagine that Akira, as a Manga Artist, could actually write such an excellent light novel.
Is he not only a genius Manga Artist but also a genius light novelist?
Akira was surfing the internet.
On the second day after the official release of Kara no Kyoukai, people who had finished reading the novel began to appear one after another, so discussions about Kara no Kyoukai started to appear on the internet.
"What does everyone think of this Kara no Kyoukai written by Mochizuki-sensei?"
"Amazing! I'm already on my knees."
"As a light novel enthusiast, I really didn't expect Mochizuki-sensei to be so good at writing light novels too!"
"Especially his writing style; I'm afraid it ranks among the best in the entire light novel world?!"
"Really? Isn't that too exaggerated?"
"I feel like I didn't really understand it; it was a bit confusing reading it— — — —"
"Me too."
"He wrote a lot of messy things; it feels like he's just being pretentious!"
"The person above is exaggerating."
"Although Mochizuki-sensei does write very obscurely in some places, it doesn't actually affect the reading experience; on the contrary, it has quite a lot of atmosphere."
"Anyway, I've already started looking forward to the next volume of Kara no Kyoukai."
"+1"
Akira was not surprised by the criticism appearing online, because the writing style of Kara no Kyoukai is indeed not a particularly accessible one.
Especially since Nasu Kinoko particularly likes to write some "Nasu-speak," along with a large number of technical terms; in his view, the evaluation of being "pretentious" is actually not undeserved.
He was even a bit surprised, because judging by the proportion of praise and criticism appearing on the internet, the readers' acceptance of the content of Kara no Kyoukai is actually much higher than he expected.
Thinking about it carefully, perhaps it's because although Kara no Kyoukai has quite a bit of obscure content, this obscure content looks inexplicably high-class.
This kind of inexplicably pretentious writing style is probably quite appealing to Japan, this great nation of chuunibyou, and the countless chuunibyou youths within it.
Besides that, as a light novel, the discussion about Kara no Kyoukai naturally spread to forums dedicated to discussing light novels.
And the reaction of some of the people there made Akira feel quite interested.
In this forum, some people were already paying attention to Shonen Jump, and some people, although they didn't follow Shonen Jump, learned about Kara no Kyoukai from other places.
So on the second day of the novel's release, they also started discussing it in the forum.
However, there were still some people who didn't follow Shonen Jump and weren't well-informed.
Therefore, regarding Kara no Kyoukai, which suddenly had many people discussing it overnight, they were completely confused and didn't know what had happened.
And upon learning that the author of Kara no Kyoukai was actually a Shonen Jump serialized Manga Artist, this group of people became even more confused, and the reaction on the scene was quite amusing.
In short, judging by the momentum on the internet, the performance of Kara no Kyoukai was unexpectedly good, and it caused a certain tremor in both the light novel world and the manga world at the same time.
I wonder if, under these circumstances, the development of Kara no Kyoukai will undergo some different changes compared to his previous life?
Akira thought with great interest.