Kill-Stealing Kazuma: "Honestly, there's nothing inherently wrong with someone who's never dated writing romance novels. Sometimes, the first-love stories written by people like that, with their awkwardness, clumsiness, and beautiful fantasies, are actually more flavorful and make people feel happier."
Kill-Stealing Kazuma: "But yours is way too draggy!"
Kill-Stealing Kazuma: "Being draggy would be one thing if the plot were interesting enough and the characters appealing enough. I could tolerate a slow burn then. But it just isn't that interesting!"
Kill-Stealing Kazuma: "It feels like someone who's never been in love isn't writing the romantic love they fantasize about, but stubbornly trying to make it 'realistic' and 'profound.' In the end, what they write is neither realistic nor interesting—just forced and awkward."
This was what Kazuma Sato found hardest to understand.
If someone who had never dated wanted to write a romance novel, why write something close to reality instead of the kind of love people fantasized about? You had never dated, so how could you write realism?
Kill-Stealing Kazuma: "But the biggest issue is still the change in the male lead's characterization later on."
Kill-Stealing Kazuma: "Didn't you say before that the male lead was 'close to a real teenage boy,' with 'awkwardness, clumsiness, and sincerity'?"
Kill-Stealing Kazuma: "Sure, in the beginning he did seem somewhat like that. He was just an ordinary high school student."
Kill-Stealing Kazuma: "But what happened in the middle and later parts? Did some 'all-around genius' suddenly possess him?"
Kill-Stealing Kazuma: "He could compose music with effortless ease, writing songs and melodies on par with professional musicians! His artistic foundation improved by leaps and bounds, and his drawings could be exhibited! Programming was no trouble for him, and he could even develop software himself! Video editing, even directing and storyboarding—he learned it all without