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This is a LN I didn't expect to like as much as I did, and here I am giving it my first review ever.
While scrolling through a catalog of LNs, I happened to stumble upon Gimai Seikatsu, and if someone asked me why I got into it, then I'd have to admit that the cover photo alone piqued my interest.
I'm not that big of a reader in general, only a few manga here and there with this being my 2nd LN, but I do love SoL and Romance, and both of them together are nothing I'd avoid. Upon reading the title, one would get various ... ideas as to what this story is all about and where it could be headed, and with it being how it is, it certainly didn't disappoint me. The one thing I was sceptical about when hopping in here was just how many cliches and generic events/characters are we gonna see, that fellow SoL lovers encounter excessively, but there was no need to worry about that!

The characters' thoughts and how they process different ideas, how they tackle problems, and just how "real" the way they react and deal with things is something I'm really enjoying. It's something fresh, realistic, enjoyable and relatable to an extent. The story is simple, but it's up to the author to decide what to do with it and where to go, and so far it's going pretty well. With the ending of the 3rd volume (the latest volume available at the time of writing this), there are many ways it can go from here, but I have faith in the author that we will get amazing development from here on out and that we will end up being very satisfied with the story, as the only thing that's left for this LN to hit is a nice ending, as I believe the story so far checked out.

Now, I've been praising it and all, but it's not perfect by any means. There are a few events that get repetitive at times, which even I myself found skipping from time to time (as they didn't play a role in the story), and this isn't a book for everyone by any means. At times, it gets a little bit "too Slice of Life-ish" where some would wonder "Why even write this?", but personally I don't mind this at all, however, I can definitely see where people are coming from when they pose these questions (as is an often occurrence with SoL in general, anime, manga or LN), but I encourage any fellow reader and lover of such genres to give this LN a shot, and I'm sure you won't be disappointed.


However, everything I wrote here is heavily biased with my love for SoL and Romance forms of media, so take some of these comments with a grain of salt. I saw that this LN was originally an anime on YouTube with the same name, but I haven't seen it yet so I can't comment on anything surrounding that. A solid 9/10 so far from me though.

Thank you for taking your time to read this attempt at a review!