• NineSwords@ani.socialMEnglish
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    20 days ago

    <Genius in the Library: This Bookish Rookie Will Save the Day!> - Volume 1 by Misa Aoi - ★★★½☆, 188 MynePages™ - Great volume with a really unique concept I haven’t seen anywhere else. We’ve all seen series starting with a saint summoning a million times, but I’ve never seen a series that’s about what leads up to the summoning. Good stuff. And the protag is a bookworm, which is always a big plus. I have a few problems with the translation, though. There are a lot of anachronisms in it. Every couple of pages, there are modern phrases that just stand out like a sore thumb. And it’s not just the general writing style either. Characters that speak normally suddenly have an instance when they say “ya” instead of “you” for example. Or idioms like “head on a swivel”. There is a lot of stuff like that, but it’s so inconsistent. Almost as if the volume got sloppily rewritten and the remaining anachronisms were overlooked.

    <Your Castle’s Little Helper - Please feed me, I’ll work!> - Volume 1 by Kazuhito Minagi and PenekoR - ★★★☆☆, 153 MynePages™ - Just as comfy and wholesome as the cover makes it seem. There are a few less-comfy moments, but they get resolved quickly. I have to say, though, that I am not entirely happy with how the story developed (and about how I believe it will continue in the next volumes). If MC is playing the castle’s little helper role for all of two chapters, maybe don’t name your entire series after it.

    <A Young Maiden’s Growing Pains: I Reincarnated and All I Got Was This 100X Stat Buff!> - Volume 1 by Yuno Yozakura - ★★☆☆☆, 104 MynePages™ - Overly simplistic to the point where you couldn’t even consider it a guilty pleasure.