At Night, I Become a Monster (Novel)

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Since childhood, best friends Hina and Tsumugi have used an exchange diary as a token of their friendship. Angered that Hina wants to open up the diary to include a new girl she has befriended, the jealous Tsumugi throws it away. Upon falling asleep, she wakes up in front of a labyrinth within the Night World. Initially refusing to take Yoru's help, Tsumugi searches for an answer to her predicament, but she is confronted by her feelings of loneliness instead. Bagian favoritku di akhir ketika ucapan salam dan ketika Yano bilang begini ke Adachi. Huhu pengen peluk Yano dan Adachi T_T Pelaku yang merusak sepatu Nakagawa? Apa terungkap? Di buku tidak, tapi aku cuma bisa nebak siapa yang ngelakuin hal itu.

Aku rasa buku ini cocok buat memperkenalkan hal-hal yg mungkin dianggap biasa saja oleh remaja bahwa hal tersebut bagian dari bullying dan menyisakan luka buat korban. Karena saat remaja tuh kadang emang manusia belum berakal. Apalagi di tengah peer presure. Bisa dibilang buku ini penuh politik yg umum terjadi di masa sekolah. Ada gerombolan anak populer, anak yg biasa saja, dan anak yg berbeda (dan rentan jadi korban bullying). This fabulistic novel about a middle-school boy who turns into a monster at night, and meets his bullied classmate is an exploration of the mindset of bullying from a different angle. Adachi doesn't know why he turns into a monster a night, only that he has been doing so for a few weeks now, and he has sort of now settled into a routine. One night, he decides to sneak into his school to retrieve the homework he had forgotten, and comes across Yano, his classmate who is being bullied by everyone in the class for harassing one of the classmates. Though it has been sometime from the incident that turned the class against her, Yano is still tormented by some of the more aggressive members of the class, and ignored by the rest. Even them ignoring her, however, is not without malice, and it is a deliberate shutting out from their 'class unity', a thing which Adachi himself participates in, even if he doesn't explicitly bully her the others. Yoru no Kuni' or 'Night World' is a short ONA that I found to have greater pleasures than I initially thought it could. It follows a 3 part story about individuals who have faced a loss (not necessarily death) in some shape or Aku pikir Midorikawa akan jadi tokoh yang sama pentingnya, tapi ternyata respon paling panjang yang ada di buku cuma bilang Kasai orang yang gak baik. Hmm.. Bunny-Ears Lawyer: The Lord, who literally has a set of bunny ears (as he's a rabbit), who is a seemingly goofy old fart who everyone in Jutengai respects implicitly. Several of the other lords that Kumatetsu and Kyuta visit to learn about strength also qualify.Perubahan Acchi jadi monster untuk menemukan diri dia yang sebenarnya itu jenius!! Kayanya Acchi juga gak nyangka kalau ternyata dia di malam hari (monster) lebih manusiawi ketimbang saat dia menjadi manusia di siang hari.

Fantastic Racism: The beasts look down on humans because they can easily be corrupted by the darkness in their hearts. At Night, I Become a Monster bercerita tentang Adachi yg saat malam berubah menjadi monster. Karena bukunya tertinggal, Adachi pergi ke sekolah di malam hari dan bertemu Yano. Lewat keseharian Adachi, pembaca diajak menyelami perisakan yg terjadi di kelas 3-2. 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.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. Banyak cerita sedih yang digambarkan (juga dengan kalimat penuh makna yang indah) sehingga aku tidak bisa lagi menahan tangis, terutama saat Yano bertanya pada Achi, "Your night... form or your day form... Which is... the real one?" Apa yang kutemukan di buku ini beda dengan ekspektasiku. Beda aja, bukannya mengecewakan atau jelek gitu. Dan karena buku ini fokus banget dari sudut Adachi. Jadi banyak karakter gak dieksplor lebih. Aku pribadi penasaran sama konflik awal pemicu bullying dan Kasai. Tapi ya saat sampai akhir buku, aku ya lega aja sih. Kadang kita kan gak tahu dan gak perlu tahu juga semua cerita buat mendapatkan manfaat ya. :)

Deity of Human Origin: It's specified that humans can't do it but beasts can reincarnate as gods after years of training. Foreshadowing: In the beginning, Tatara jokingly states that if Kumatetsu was chosen as the next Grandmaster, he would become a "God of tool". Come the climax, Kumatetsu decides to become a sword so Kyuuta/Ren can use to defend himself against Ichirouhiko.Refusing to accept the death of her beloved dog, Choco, a young girl named Chiyo falls asleep, only to wake up in the Night World. She is greeted by Yoru, an entity that guides her through the realm of the darkest, most beautiful time of day. As Chiyo learns to cope with the loss in her heart, the starless world around her begins to light up.

Novel ini mengangkat isu bullying yang nyaris bahkan sama dengan realita. Perlu dipercayai kalau anak-anak itu lebih smooth dalam menyakiti temannya. Dianggap tidak ada lebih menyakitkan ketimbang disakiti, selama ini Yano mengalami dua-duanya disakiti, dikasari, dan keberadaannya tidak dianggap. Aku, Acchi, kun, dan anak-anak tadi semuanya be, da. Wajar kalau be, da. Tidak mungkin ta, hu pikiran orang lain." (h. 275) Bersama mereka, kita akan diajak untuk mengenali "wajah-wajah" yang ditampilkan manusia. Mereka akan memperlihatkan bahwa manusia bisa menjadi makhluk yang rumit dan punya banyak lapisan. Apa yang selama ini ditampilkan seseorang belum tentu wajah aslinya. Ada si jahat yang bersikap baik di depan orang-orang tertentu, ada pula si murah hati yang tidak bisa menampilkan kebaikan hatinya karena kekangan tak kasat mata. There are reoccurring events of property destruction at the school during the course of the story. The baseball clubroom window is broken twice, and a classmate's shoes are shredded up. Midoriokawa makes a mention about Adachi's friend, Kasai, who she says "isn't a good person" when Adachi mentions the property destruction before disappearing. There's never any elaboration on this and leaves me wondering why it was even put in the story if it was never going to be resolved.Also, there is a girl named Yano, who is very energetic in his class. Unfortunately, she got bullied because of her little bit of lousy noise, also some of the classmates think of her as a "strange person". She greets the classroom every morning with a playful voice but no one answers to her. Also, no one talks to her, and some serious bulliers even throw her books or shoes in the garbage box.