/lit/ - Literature

Just finished Youjo Senki volume 2. Anyone else reading it?
If you like war drama (or tragicomedy in a way), I'd really recommend it. Don't let the fact it's a japanese light novel with isekai elements turn you off. It's pretty much a recounting of WWI from the perspective of a sociopathic german soldier, except said soldier used to be a sociopathic japanese salaryman who got reincarnated in an alternate universe with magic where WWI is happening, as a girl, and gets conscripted at iirc 9yo. If you ignore the usual red alerts (japanese LN, isekai, magic, little girl, maybe even the fact it's !germany during WWI), it's a fantastic read, very much unlike any LN out there. It's even kinda funny to call it a light novel, because it's not light at all.
The comedy is really subtle too. It stems from the MC being, as I said, a sociopath, and thus misreading social queues and shooting himself in the foot over and over again. In a way, it's kinda like Notes From Underground in the way it mocks its MC.