I mean I didn't finish the first volume yet but it's kind of my main topic for my daily so
I've been reading the light novel These Legs Don't Lie! Harumi's Legacy as the Strongest Mimic, which reads as a leg fetish thing but actually comes across as definitely a work by Tsuyoshi Fujitaka, the person who wrote My Instant Death Ability is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! - which is itself, of course, a massive misnomer for Increasingly Powerful Idiots Can't Just Leave the SCP Alone And Instead Die Mid-Expository Speech
Legs Don't Lie's titularly leggy protagonist was described to me by a friend as kind of being like a turbo Kumoko (from Spider) and I don't disagree - IMO Kumoko has more shut-in energy (ironic given her competition is a treasure chest that moves its mouth with a resounding "paclack"), but they both share the monster-energy-powered (... hey, that's a pun) "oh god what the hell is going on - wait haha I don't really care, bye!" lunaticness
like most proper fantasy works that could potentially be isekai but I don't really know, Legs Don't Lie gives a very perfunctory but satisfactory introduction to the world, explicitly shouting "don't die and I'll explain it later" while also letting our heroine ruminate about legitimately curious reincarnation things like "wait, what are 'words' anyway and why do I know them if I am a baby treasure chest with an enormous tongue" about ten pages before sprouting legs and groveling before a party of adventurers, using her tongue to push a paltry dime from storage towards them as a peace offering
and frankly that can be described as "extremely normal" compared to the severe wheel-yank that occurs approximately immediately after and kicks the whole series into hyperdrive.
Legs is the same as Instant Death in that it takes place in a setting that is legitimately interesting and composed of interesting people, and also if you ever worry about the long-winded explanations dragging on, you can be sure that someone is about to come in and mash the A button to skip through them with a bang.
it's a certain kind of delight that I enjoy that is accentuated by truly Geneva-convention-violating bits of excellent translation, such as when Harumi the treasure chest repeatedly has her arms melted and regenerated by a meteor strike (don't worry about it, unless you're the meteor) and panics with a "looks like I've got no hands to play"
review: voted most likely to be the first light novel to involve rocket jumping
