Welcome to Mendass, a place where guns pop out of corpses, orphans dress up as vigilantes, and a slime became a demon lord. Huh? Those are three different worlds unrelated to Mendass? Whoops, I'm reading the wrong script. Just give me a second.
Okay, I found the correct script. So Side Note follows the story of some random maid with a thinking debuff called insanity and believes she has a power trapped in her left eye, but not in a chuuni way, since it turns out she does have a power in her left eye! So do her shadows!
Huh? The shadow part is a bit too far along the story? Eh, whatever. It's not like I spoiled she dies in the end or something… does she die in the end? She dies at random points in the story? That's stupid… Woah! Don't cut my paycheck! It's a great idea! Very funny! It adds to the organised chaos thing you've got going! Put the gun down! I'll finish it!
Ahem. Read along as the main character travels about in Mendass, meeting with peculiar characters like the spirit of a lemon tree, a reality-bending bunny girl, and at least six different people named Jack. Her journey will start in Hamblin, a town found at the very edge of the world, literally right next to an endless abyss, the place of her employer, the Queen of Hamblin, who will... execute the... am I reading this right? Are you really starting the story with the main character about to be executed? Is this some sort of fake protagonist switch-up? Like, I know she dies at some random point midway, but at the beginning? Really? Wait… why are you holding up the gu-
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Side Note (Haha, get it?): This is the story of a mad maid travelling in a mad world, meeting others who are mostly as mad. I mean, come on, the world's name is an anagram for Madness (Not combat). Expect nonsense, references, and the following of the comedy comes in threes rule.
- Epilogue of the Maid: Fire Coming Out of the Monkey’s Head (End)Apr 13, 2023
- Epilogue of the Antagonist: I Just Want To ExistApr 13, 2023
- Epilogue of the Allies: You’ve Got A Friend In MeApr 11, 2023
- Epilogue of the Enemies: Ain’t No Rest For The WickedApr 11, 2023
- Epilogue of the Others: Roll CreditsApr 11, 2023
- Chapter 201: The EndApr 8, 2023
- Chapter 200: Pale Machine Expansion PackApr 7, 2023
- Chapter 199: Mr. Pinstripe SuitApr 6, 2023
- Chapter 198: MatricideApr 5, 2023
- Chapter 197: DittoApr 4, 2023
- Chapter 196: QueenApr 3, 2023
- Chapter 195: SorceressApr 2, 2023
- Chapter 194: BadApr 1, 2023
- Chapter 193: Big Black DeltaMar 31, 2023
- Chapter 192: Last DanceMar 30, 2023
- 408 reading
- 186 plan to read
- 20 completed
- 25 paused
- 41 dropped
This was is a hidden gem. Against all (my previous) expectations, this is NOT a disjointed episodic mess of jokes written by a bloody amateur for mere practice.
If the author pojlk is a bloody amateur, then they must be a genius or dedicated talent or simply Mad.
Side Note is very well-written comedy where the fourth wall simply does not exist.
Your suspension of disbelief won't be challenged with a chain of premises and number of unlikely coincidences to feel the drama. Instead you are simply asked to disbelief everything and enjoy the ride.
Grammar, Characters, Parody and even the Story, one can follow and which ain't just episodic, are top.
My only advice is to binge read or use the Glossary to not confuse all the main characters (I did, I admit).
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Lovely insane story! Nearly went insane binge reading it! 5 stars!
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A true hidden gem and the best Lack of common sense story, I have ever read and will read because only insanity exist in this story. (This is my first review and only my observation.)
The plot is hidden in the chaos and suprisingly simple even if
there are literally no stakes involved but I simply forgot it
4 wall was a non existence
Characters are all for some reason consistent and unique. Everyone has more or less a goal and doesn't feel like plot devices. Most of them are heart to remember because there are a lot of side characters. Villains
Cookie is the only good villain.
It has good grammar and no big errors.
The worldbuilding is good. The story has no huge infodumps (if my memories are correct). Every detail is more or less just said randomly or when it's important. It doesn't feel like the main character is the center of everything because most of the things that happen have nothing to do with her. If you considered what I said about the characters you can see how this world feels alive.
You should binge it for the best expirence.
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Not nearly well known enough. Every chapter has me rolling on the ground with laughter
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An amusing and quite insane story. Good fun.
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This truly was an experience. While said experience may have felt like I was loosely tied to the back of a car barreling down the interstate at 90 miles per hour with an 18-wheeler running up behind it, that isn't to say I disliked the story, not at all. It's just a bit hectic, for lack of a better term. The plot, if you can really call it that, is sort of... nonexistent, at least at a cursory glance. There IS a plot, it's just not really important until later on and I don't feel like going through that right now. Rather, the main attraction here is characters and interactions. And oh boy is there a lot of them. Basically everyone in the story is insane in some way (and sometimes shape or form), which leads to many... interesting things. I'll leave those to you (the person reading the review) to find out about.
I'm going to put some scores real quick.
Plot: N/A (I can't even begin to try and rate that part.)
Characters: 4.8/5 (While I can't exactly say very many of them were likable per se, they were interesting, and [almost] none of them were annoying.)
Grammar: 4.99999... 8/5 (As a person with a strange obsession with abiding by language conventions, I give this the Insomniologist Seal of Almost-Approval. Not giving it a seal of approval yet because I haven't physically dissected the entire thing.)
Style: ⑨/5 (what a funky!)
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