At Night, I Become a Monster (Novel)

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Sampai akhir nasib Yano akan sama bahkan mungkin sampai lulus, sikap teman sekelas dan situasi di sekolah gak ada yang berubah. Tapi Acchi berubah, dia jadi lebih manusiawi. Synopsis: By day, Adachi is a normal student. By night, he’s a terrifying creature of many eyes and many legs who lurks in the darkness. One night, while haunting his own school, he comes across his classmate Yano Satsuki–she’s been an unexpected victim of bullying, and stalking the night in her own way. He’s surprised to find himself developing a sympathetic relationship with her. In this supernatural novel about nighttime outcasts, two students confront the monstrous ways that humans can treat each other. Furthermore, we never know what Yano's deal is. Is she neuroatypical? Does she have a disability? Her strange actions and speech impediment make her a target for her class's bullying, but the book never fills the audience in on just what her deal is. We never even learn anything about her other than she likes Ghibli movies, occasionally twists conversations around, acts out on impulse, and that she's weird. Some of her more morally questionable actions help her stay away from just being a classic victim character whose sole purpose is to garner sympathy from the audience, but Sumino doesn't really make much of an effort to flesh her out or give her any development other than her experiences at school. We don't meet her family nor know if she does anything outside of school, like hobbies or other interests. Yang paling aku suka dari buku ini adalah karakter tokohnya yang begitu kuat. Bukan cuma Acchi sama Yano, melainkan juga tokoh2 figuran yang disebutkan di sini. Mudah banget diingat, sehingga ketika masing-masing dideskripsikan secara anonim, aku langsung paham bahwa yang dimaksud itu si A, B, atau C. Memang iya tokoh utamanya berubah jadi monster, tapi cerita yang diangkat realistis dan dekat dengan kejadian sehari-hari. Pas diakhir aku akhirnya paham kenapa judulnya gini, terus malah jadi ketawa miris.

Bagian favoritku di akhir ketika ucapan salam dan ketika Yano bilang begini ke Adachi. Huhu pengen peluk Yano dan Adachi T_T Curb-Stomp Battle: After a little training, Kyuta easily defeats a gang of beast bullies and earns their respect. In the human world, he takes down the delinquent boys who were ridiculing Kaede with little effort. The main reason that the class has zeroed in on Yano as their target is an incident involving Yano going up to a quiet classmate, Midoriokawa, and throwing her book out of the class window. Midoriokawa is generally well liked, and never says much else besides "Mm," to her classmates, so this sudden act of aggression came as a huge surprise to the class, and caused a lot of hatred to be targeted at Yano. We find out later that Yano and Midoriokawa were friends but some undisclosed event happened that made them fight, leading to Yano's outburst. We never find out what that was! Deity of Human Origin: It's specified that humans can't do it but beasts can reincarnate as gods after years of training. Fantastic Racism: The beasts look down on humans because they can easily be corrupted by the darkness in their hearts.Sayangnya, aku sering bosan saat membaca buku ini, terutama di awal-awal. Karena terasa flat gitu, kayak hari-hari Acchi dibahas secara kronologis. Datang ke sekolah jam berapa, terus pelajaran apa, terus makan siang, terus pelajaran lagi, terus pulang. Besoknya diulang lagi begitu.

Yano herself is really quite the interesting character. She seems to be heavily autistic coded, as she has an irregular speech pattern, is often told she is "making the wrong face at the wrong time" (a part of her character is that she always seems to be "smugly smiling," we find out later she apparently only does this when she is afraid :c ), and told that she "can't/doesn't read the room." I really liked her character as she's a lot smarter than people think, imaginative, and brave. Novel ini juga memperlihatkan tahap perisakan dari mulai permusuhan dan pengabaian hingga akhirnya mulai menyentuh fisik. Anggota kelas yang tadinya diam saja kemudian mulai ikut-ikutan. Aku yang bacanya kaya "wah gila sih" tapi hal kaya gini emang beneran ada loh terjadi di dunia nyata. Red Oni, Blue Oni: Kumatetsu is red, Ren/Kyuta is blue, though the latter is associated more with white. Kumatetsu could also be considered red to Iouzen's blue. His two children, Jiroumaru (red) and Ichirouhiko (blue) contrast each other like this as well. When Kyuta first arrives in the beast world, many of the residents, especially Tatara, Ichirohiko and Jirohiko, initially consider him a social doormat due to him being from the human world. The Night. With its darkness, it paves a path for the bright stars. With its darkness, man falls tried, ascending to the world of dreams, in hopes one does not face towards the nightmare realm instead. With its darkness, fears allude and tension arises. The darkness is scary after all.A line from some of the delinquent girls implies that Kaede is a social doormat, or at least, no one from her class likes talking to her. But along came Kyuta, who scared the delinquents out of their minds and rescued Kaede. Defeat Means Friendship: Jiroumaru becomes friendly to Kyuta almost immediately once Kyuta has become strong enough to beat him, since he likes strong people.