By Inori and Aonoshimo. Released simultaneously in Japanese, English, Spanish and German by the author. Translated by Kevin Ishizaka. (I try not to spoil too much about this book, but I do spoil the final resolution of it. Reader beware.) This is a spring/summer that will have two works by I’m in Love with the Villainess author Inori coming out. The second, The Girl Who Wants to Be a Hero and the Girl Who Ought to Be a Hero, came out the traditional way in Japan via Dengeki Bunko, and is coming out the traditional way here via Yen Press. But this is a self-published work, releasing digitally on the same day in four languages, and translated by the same translator as ILTV. As such, thoughts like “experiment” and “risk”...
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