I’m going to be dumping a chapter of Otherside Picnic aka lesbian S.T.A.L.K.E.R. every day
Please be mindful of spoilers and use black bars for talking about anything past the manga. Part of the point of a storytime thread is to give people a chance to read something for the first time and it can be alienating to come in and see people talking freely about stuff that’s still far in the future
> Elevator Pitch Sometimes you’re a misanthropic nerd with an encyclopedic knowledge of ghost stories and the girl you like is a beautiful gunslinger obsessed with finding a missing woman you’re 90% sure was pure evil and the two of you hunt creepypasta monsters as a hobby
> How Long Is It? There are seven novels so far. J-Novel Club has licensed and translated the first six and is working on the seventh. The manga is currently 46 chapters long and is near the end of the second novel. There’s also an anime but it was horrible and we don’t talk about it
> Where Can I Get It? If you'd like to go read the story on your own you can find the scans on mangadex. The officially translated novels and first volume of the manga are on nyaa if you want to pirate them or if you want to support the author you can buy them from a variety of vendors. J-Novel Club (the translator) has a page listing the options here j-novel.club/series/otherside-picnic. There are also physical copies available if you prefer
I mean, she just changed her perception of Kozakura, which also shifted her own perception of herself to another layer of the otherside which may just be insane for someone without a magical eye.
