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I’ve found my ideal fantasy novel! Just finished ch 1 (28%), and this is the perfect mix of fun and light with just the right difficulty, and nothing that’s making me roll my eyes (yet? Edit: it seems we’ve got the “lead 1 口説き落とす pestering lead 2 for a relationship trope” :roll_eyes: let’s see how it goes this time). So far no info-dumping either. Book switches between the two leads’ perspectives, and is kind enough to label them at the beginning. By いのり (author of 私の推しは悪役令嬢。 | L32 and that homunculus novel I forgot the name of). I like this much better than わたおし so far, and it’s easier. At the very beginning I was like “how is this only L28??”, but after a few pages it got easy. Lookups are 2-9 per page, with most pages being 2-4 or so. Also it involves the MC rejecting AI - which I’m all here for.

comparison to Mercury Witch

It feels like a good complement to 機動戦士ガンダム 水星の魔女 S1 | L30 (which I’m watching rn), in that sense of - the MCs are (in this case attempting) to attend an elite school, one of them is deeply entrenched in the system already, with a prestigious pedigree, the other is a kinda clueless (yet uniquely impressive) outsider who you’re a bit worried to leave on her own. There’s different factions (here: humans vs mazoku, there: space-ians vs earth-ians), some hints that things might be kind shady under the surface (ok well in G-witch things are extremely shady, and barely under the surface). That’s probly where the similarities end, but they just felt kinda complementary to me.

There’s an extended review (with spoilers) here

Ironically, it won’t actually help too much with reading something like わたおし manga b/c the difficult vocab in there is largely political.

Gradually rereading this lovely shoujo yuri :slight_smile: Very unique art style & characters (who have archetypes, but interesting personality). Focused on two couples (prince & princess, actor & author)… lots of pining, but also some things that move quite fast.

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