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It is here that we find out that ghosts are not incidental parts of the story, but that the protagonists are aware of them and understand their significance and mannerisms.

2/6

One protagonist tells the story of gender-changing, and accepting a ghost into her life, who she eventually marries, from a passed grandfather. The funeral forces her to meet her parents and extended family for the first time as a woman, with the expected result that she is banished from the family and left to live her own life for ever more.

3/6

The other tells a story of living with lesbianism through school bullying and social estrangement at the bar she works at as an entertainer. A fanatic with evil intent makes contact with her, and we are led to believe that the fan goes on to ruin the life she might have had.

4/6

The work continues in the strong first-person narrative mode, but the point of view swings around between the two people. It makes the read interesting if not a little confusing; between them, they introduce a number of people in their histories and keeping track is quite taxing on the reader, who is asked to filter out the incidental characters from the active ones.

5/6

There is an unfortunate footnote at the end of the story, with the author reaching out in the hope that the reader is not feeling lonely like the character in this work of fiction.

6a/6

This rather ruins the experience of reading the story in my opinion: breaking the fourth wall which disconnects the reader from the imaginary world they would have built up in their mind, tainting the fictionality of the story with the supposition that these are events that might happen in the real world, and changing the nature of the exposition from a fable into something that might be construed as autobiographical.

[ps you can read my reviews of all the chapters at https://rdmp.org/serials/content/KonbiniIdol.]