• NineSwords@ani.socialMEnglish
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    9 天前

    <I’m Just a Villager, So What?> - Volume 1 by Shiraishi Arata - ★★★☆☆, 167 MynePages™ - Plot-wise, it’s nothing special. Just your usual power fantasy, and not even a good one at that. But I like the prose in this one.

    I’m Just a Villager, So What? - Volume 2 by Shiraishi Arata - ★★★☆☆, 234 MynePages™ - This continues in the same way as the first volume. Mid-plot, but good prose. I like, for example, how personifications of abstracts often describe the mood and atmosphere of a place. Take this excerpt:

    The silence that followed was familiar. Not exactly comforting, but expected. I cast one last glance across the dim, empty aisles before stepping outside. I didn’t head for the exit; instead, I turned deeper into the library, toward the sections no one else dared approach, heading into the kind of silence that didn’t just whisper but watched.

    There was also an interesting bait & switch. In a genre where everything is so formulaic, it was outright shocking to read. Got me good.

    I’m Just a Villager, So What? - Volume 3 by Arata Shiraishi - ★★☆☆☆, 202 MynePages™ - It’s getting downhill. This volume was a lot worse than the first two.

    <I Saved Myself with a Potion!: Life in Another World> - Volume 2 by Akira Iwafune - ★★★★☆, 135 MynePages™ - While I enjoyed the first 90% of the volume, it had an absurdly stupid end. I hope this gets resolved in the next volume in a different way than is indicated at the end of this one.