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Occultic;Nine, Vol. 1, by Chiyomaru Shikura, Chiyomaru Shikura

nizharu's review

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5.0

What can I say about Oc9?
This was one of the best stories I have read and watched the last season, good and complex plot, great and very well done mystery that don't spoon feed you and interesting and complex unlikable characters, the third book will be super exciting when it come out, if it come out, and the VN look super pretty...

It was a very good read, better than the anime indeed, but the anime is also fun, if you cannot wait for the third volume please see it, but don't trust that ending, the book will not end like that(I wish it don't end like that), that's only one of the last.

Also by the way, Chiyomaru Shikura its not the writer of the SciADV, he's the director, the SciADV writter its Naotaka Hayashi (who basically wrote the entirety of Chaos;Head and Steins;Gate) and many others.
So Oc9 it's its first written works beside musical lyrics and composition and for being a first work it's very, very good and it's very well written (he got a lot of experience directing SciADV), the plot it's interesting too, and if you like SciADV you will love it, if you only like Steins;Gate... first, don't talk to me, second, you don't like SciADV so this it's not for you.
ah!, pardon that outburst, I don't like the toxic part of the SCiADV fanbase franchise
Also this book don't have a normal ending, it have a no ending, because the Japanese editors split the first book in two, the real ending it's in the second book, and even if it look as an no ending too, it is, it's the end of the first ark of the story, commenting more will be spoilers.

Occultic;Nine it's a fine Light Novel book and a good contact with SVN and SciADV(even if the SciADV it's fictional inside the SVN), you can try it even if you don't like anime and manga, this can pass as a normal young adult book, so if you like urban fantasy with colourful characters, a good mystery and a ghost story unlike any other, this is your book.
well first and second part.

And now, let's wait for the third one, whatever it may be and let's hope the visual Novel get's licensed for the true ending.
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