Obsessions of an Otome Gamer

Natsu

Mar 2018 · Obsessions of an Otome Gamer Vol 1 · Cross Infinite World

About this ebook

Rejected by her first crush, Mashiro finds herself hooked on an unbeatable music-themed otome game. Her high school days are spent learning the wonders of music, obsessively trying to claim the romance ending with the handsome 2D character who stole her broken heart. On the way home from her college entrance exams she gets distracted by a billboard for the game’s remake and unexpectedly falls down a manhole and plunges to her death!

Mashiro finds herself reincarnated in a world bearing similarities to the otome game she was obsessed with. Only this time, she has no idea how to avoid the twists and turns of certain character routes, including the bad endings! Now, as a seven-year-old, she decides to walk the path of a pianist to embrace the musical world to its fullest, but no matter where she turns, she just can’t seem to escape triggering events and getting involved with troublesome yet handsome characters!

Does Mashiro have any choice in where her new life will take her? Or is she en route to a horrifying ending manipulated by the original game world? Find out in this exciting shoujo light novel series that follows Mashiro’s life from elementary through high school. And just like an otome game, it will give readers the chance to choose which hero she ends up with and how their story unfolds in volumes focused on their route!

Ratings and reviews

A very captivating read. The premise of 'person reborn into a fictional world' might be familiar to a lot of readers but the author is a wonderful storyteller who spins Mashiro's tale with such flair that you can't help but be moved - Mashiro's passion, Sou's acute loneliness, Kon's solitary struggles are all painted so vividly. Patterns and cliches are toyed with and then discarded or bluntly questioned by the self-aware protagonist. Woven throughout the story like a guiding thread, the musical parts draw you in with stiring descriptions of both light-hearted and deep, melancholy pieces. So it's all the more jarring when a mistake comes up, such as the time the protagonist ends up owning a piano made by a certain company. Though it's a second hand instrument, she treasures and takes great care of it. However, a few chapters later she exclaims, upon seeing a piano made by the same company, how it's her first time seeing one of them. We are even treated to a description of the company similar to the one we read the first time around. Thankfully, such mistakes are rare and they only occasionally break the flow of the story (I'm looking at you, male lead who thoughtlessly twisted a pianist's finger almost hard enough to break - though I'm unsure if the translator erred there or the author). On the whole, I really enjoyed this first volume and recommend the story to anyone who enjoys light-hearted romance novels or otome games.

very good otome reincarnation genre, with some dark twist inside it.

Great series, one of the best Isekais I have ever read.