Translator here, and what can I say, this novel is pretty cute.

Truck-kun added one (well technically two) more victims to his kill list. Our main character, Kirio Tsugumi, reincarnates into Sorahoshi Tsugumi She has pretty wholesome parents if I must say so myself and this life, she decides to aim for something bigger, something she couldn't achieve in her previous life—Hollywood.

Tsugumi becomes a child actor, using the skills she gained in her previous life to establish her position and reputation. Cute stuff overall. A bit of shoujo-ai. Also, the illustrations... more>> are great. Will update this review the further I read.

Update (End of vol 1) : The story took a different approach than what I thought it would. The story deals with Tsugumi from present day, and Tsugumi from her past. Honestly, volume 1 is pretty much just introduction to the bigger cast of characters the author wants to introduce. This is a really good second chance novel where the main character doesn't ab*se any OP cheat abilites. I like it. <<less

This is lowkey amazing. Really interesting premise with amazing execution.

Because here is thing, it's really easy to say 'MC is a genius actress', it's whole different beast to try to convey that when all you have is a bunch of text, no audio or video to help you convey it. AND THE AUTHOR NAILED IT. The way the scene is written, the small step-by-step description that slowly warps the vibe, it's soooo good.

Also I always love it when MC reincarnated to the same world, it's always interesting to see how... more>> the world have changed or how the MC was remembered. <<less

Interesting premise, horrible story telling. The author skill is simply too low and failed to convey his imagined world into readers' mind. I can see the translator isn't at fault here, you can't fix a broken novel with perfect English sentences. You just can't simply read this novel, you have to decipher what the hell the characters' monologues even mean and desperately figure out the context. And about that, you won't able to, as the author failed to do their job, you don't know what the hell is going on... more>> and what the characters are talking about. A complete jumble mess of a novel, all over the place, and confusing read. <<less

I find it hard to put my reaction into words. That's how much it blew me away.

I'm struggling to find faults with this story. At most, it's that a couple of scenes are retold from different perspectives, which is a stylistic device that I'm personally not very fond of. There usually isn't enough additional information to warrant telling the same story twice. Switching perspectives (which this novel also does on a regular basis - however I really didn't find it as confusing as bakaemon) is fine, and the other perspective... more>> can then be inferred from the following plot, possibly even including callbacks for strong reactions without needing to retell the whole scene.

That aside, the novel is brilliant and it's a shame that there aren't more translated chapters. The pace is somewhat slow, so the MC is still 5 years old at this point, which means that some foreshadowed developments simply aren't in yet.

But it's not as if the story was dragged out. It provides an immense depth that I had not expected at all from a story covering childhood, even if it occasionally borrows from older characters with more complex personalities and more experience for that purpose.

But even the childhood friendship between the four young actresses that stand in the forefront of the plot is not superficial at all and has significant emotions while still maintaining the wholesome atmosphere of childhood innocence overall.

This may well be the best childhood acting novel I've ever read, and even in a wider category I'm sure it would rank quite high, although of course it's harder to draw comparisons between different genres. <<less