SPOILER WARNING: This review contains light spoilers including for content later than the anime goes up to. I dont think itll ruin the experience though. However it refers to a lot of stuff that doesnt necessarily make sense unless youve seen at least a bit of the story. Note: This is a very favourable review if you want complaints go read the anime reviews. I have some minor complaints myself too though. Note: I make a fair amount of references to other works. Im not advising you to check out those works if you like the particular element of this one but I dont hate any of the mentioned works either. This is not meant to be wellwritten I wanted to get my thoughts out there and a review seems more visible than a profile. Even if no one checks reviews for light novels that have an anime adaptation. When I read this story I was pretty much immediately in love. The characters and setting are all similar to those of a highschool romcom but what makes this really stand out is the character drama. If you dont like extreme melodrama and flawed characters dont read this but I think that theres always introspection to do and this story is a good way to see what problems people who havent really grown up deal with. Also you should be prepared for the power of friendship to come into play. A lot. Its probably more believable than in nagiasu though. As with any characterdriven romdrama the story excels most in its characters. Theyre all in a club together where there is no prescribed club activity when suddenly supernatural phenomena begin to occur to them and force them to grow up just a little more. But what makes you like the characters is what actually happens in their arcs since their personalities tend to start as cookiecutter as you can get. The characters all grow up in a way that feels familiar. I relate with most of them at least a little bit and seeing them get over their issues encourages me to try to as well. Taichi is your usual protaganist character. He gets picked on for being close to female students by the eternal class virgins who are actually named and given a personality. I relate to his main problems vol7 a lot in particular and this made me want to change myself. He reminds me a lot of shirou fate UBW but instead of remaining a doormat forever he actually resolves to deal with his main characteritis. Inaba is a cool beauty type of character. Im not a huge fan of her since Ive never really liked this type though I can see why she would be liked. Her bashful inlove mode is cute and I believe the story would be much weaker without her presence even if I dont like her. Her troubles go away so completely after the beginning that I mostly forgot about them but they involve getting over the difficulty of trusting people. Iori is the chipper kind of character that lights up a room. probably the authors favorite as said by the JLN translator? and also my favorite. She reminds me of some other characters and her character arcs are the ones I think are the best written. Similar character for her would be chika kaguyasama but her identity crisis is something that I dont think Ive seen quite like this before. Her arc actually reminded me somewhat of how people judge people over the internet... Her story involves learning that letting people see you when your guards down is fine. Yui is a girlygirl who loves all things cute. Naturally shes also very cute. Her story arc involves getting over her fears of men which is something that I could relate to in my past despite being male. She has other character traits that are pretty important but I dont care about those as much compared to how she livens up the slice of life experience. Her story involves getting over past trauma. Aoki is the class clown super idiot character that everyone immediately trashes the moment he enters the room. A similar character would be akihisa baka test. His life involves failing at school and being ignored by the tsundere Yui. Chihiro is a stoic character who tries to not let emotion show too much. Or maybe its just him having a super bleak outlook in the first place. His arc reminds me of death note but afterwards he acts like a fairly normal person. His story gives a sense of learning to not blame others for your own mistakes and that the world isnt really that unfair. Enjouji is the incompetent little sister type who is much too cute and has everyone fawn over her. She dreams of being as cool as her club senpai and has a voice fetish. I think this is really relatable I sometimes find I feel inadequate and just want to try to catch up to the people they idolize so much. And she also reminds of motivational speakers and selfhelp books I found this the real spark to get me to actually try to do something about my thought processes based on what the other characters went through instead of only deciding that I related with their issues. Heartseed has some commentary I could make about them too but I feel like going into details is much too many spoilers for a review. Theres also a few side characters which go through their own troubles and tribulations. Mostly to do with romance. But theyre all as alive as the main cast is even if most of them feel less developed than the main cast I mean theyre side characters. Of note: Fujishima is a superman type of person who tries to be flawless at everything they do. When they lose it crushes their spirit so their story is about learning that failure is actually okay sometimes. Rina is an elementary schooler who tries to act more grownup than she can really handle. But I know Ive had times where I wanted to be more grownup for some reason at some point too. Note that while The story isnt even completely drama theres plenty of relaxed segments mostly within the short story volumes. Most random events that happen still show some growth about a character though so it never feels pointless. Id put them akin to something like tsurezure children just exciting snapshots of peoples lives but they still grow and learn from those snapshots ...sometimes. But there are still flaws in the story. The early arcs feel a little weak though thats probably just because it takes a while to get to know the characters well enough to really like them. In particular the concept of Heartseed a powerful entity that can basically do whatever it wants was always something I hated but they show Heartseed growing along with everyone else too and that on its own is already enough to redeem that negative trait. Also I think the power of friendship deals with some of the problems they have a bit too well in particular Inabas distrust of people which really just goes away when she realizes shes in love. Overall I think this is worth it for anyone who likes the genre. But maybe check out the anime first or sample the first volume to see if youll like it. Its certainly not for everyone but it was for me I thought I had most of my problems dealt with when theres always more ways to grow. So if you care at all about that its probably worth a shot watching others grow up matters.