Alright I'm going to make a serious™ review about this book. Read this book thrice AND read Maijou Outarou's other works so I can safely assume I think I know really well about this book.
Usually I give ratings at the end of review. Not this time. 10/10. Amazing, Spectacular, DON'T READ IT.
Most people read this out of funny "haha most bizarre novel" Or "36 kars on mars" Memes, I was too. But after reading a couple of times, it turns from confusion to absolute amusement. Hints from first time reading will be very apparent in the second read, and many more hidden details reveals itself in the third. If you're a fan of Otaro's works then this novel is basically his OCs THIRD installment. Yes you heard that right. Secretly a third part novel.
If you can get past the bizzareness, this book has a secretly genious system and absolutely bonkers plotline with the characters inside also wondering how the hell did this happened. Despite the weirdness too it gives massive justice to "no-screentime" Characters such as George 2 or Erina, as well as a massive cameo spanning from part 1-7 (so if you haven't read thr manga, please read those first!). Characters from different parts interacting with each other, talking from mundane things to tactical battle is simply crazy and amazingly comedically pulled.
Now onto the genre. It has a very simple premise: murder mystery. But then a weird god character enters. But then timeline happened. But then they realized, this is a murder mystery. The meta-awareness of this novel surpassed even deadpool, and dare i say almost no other novel has this level of absolute awareness on how storyline works, and Otaro literally ABUSES the system to write down the absolute crack of a story. I'd say most people find this novel confusing is simply because they NEVER EVER read this level of meta in a novel, and combined with Otaro's "annoying" Habit to insert references, yeah, you MUST have prior knowledge to his works to fully understand this (cue Rick and Morty copypasta).
And oh yeah. Goated battle that not even mainline Jojo could pull. When can you see a british pilot with a winged friend took down an army of ZOMBIES surrounding london, island beetles walking and meeting mafia? And all of that illustrated to jog your imagination.
I might sound like a simp, but I adore this novel simply because it's ultra underrated for what's its worth. Really good for a ref fest, the cons is that you must do multiple reading to fully understood what the hell's going on.
10/10. Now i want to see 37 kars on mars.