/lit/ - Literature

I picked up the Youjo Senki light novels after seeing the anime, and just finished the first volume.
My intuition about the book and its writer wasn't wrong, and on page 3 it talks about the Stanford Prison Experiment, on page 8 we hit the Chicago School of Economics, and before being halfway through the book there's Rawls' Theory of Justice.

The writing style is.. rather unique, and it doesn't feel like that is solely the case due to translation.
Also, there is an afterword by the author at the end, and its subtext feels like a threat, in the vein of "I won't kill the protagonist, but I will do things that will make you wish they were dead, because it would be a mercy."

It doesn't seem like things will get extremely heavy quite yet, or at the least won't reach their peak, judging by the covers of volumes that haven't yet been translated painting much grimmer depictions of the character, but I am at this weird juncture where I feel that I occasionally need to emotionally prepare myself to continue reading the next volume or next chapter, just in case.