I’m reading it right now!!! I totally love it!! The idea to have a narrator was more inspired by arrested development and kaguya-sama which both use their narrators for incredibly efficient humour. I’ve also been using it as a tool for “looking back” on these events so to speak which is something I’ve been thinking about since I saw I saw the tv glow, where some key moments rely on the narrator talking about the present in past tense which I found endlessly wonderful and interesting. Hirayasumi hasn’t influenced my work much yet since I started it very recently but I wholeheartedly expect it to!!!