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jennykeery's review against another edition
4.0
Ridiculous but loveable portal fantasy (girl falls through magic book, is the chosen one in the world she lands in). The characters are the best thing about this manga - I just want to protect them all.
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Nuriko's treatment is a bit frustrating. She lives as a woman and has "the heart of a woman" but is revealed to be 'a man' by a villain in quite a traumatic way. It's never really discussed but (so far) the other characters don't change the way they treat her when they find out so, mixed feelings. I think the author has since come out as transgender.4starsaiyan's review against another edition
3.0
The art is really nice and that’s about all the nice things I can say for this volume. It really shows its age; all the crazy tropes right down gender reveals are in here. It’s not GOOD, not even as a guilty pleasure, and yet I’m still compelled to read more. Possibly the best thing it has going for it is the main character knows who she’s in love with, but that also makes the current love triangle feel forces and manufactured
meganft's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
vermidian's review against another edition
4.0
This one is a little better than the first one in that we actually get a teeny bit of character development. I'll give it four stars.
Miaka's resolve has started to really form and we're starting to learn actual personalities of the characters. The art is consistent with the first book, which is pretty on it's own. They keep referring to Nuriko's sexual preference as a perversion, but that might just be because it's translated that way from Japanese and the translator just went with that for all of it's appearances. It bothers me a little, because I recall really liking Nuriko later in the series.
Miaka's resolve has started to really form and we're starting to learn actual personalities of the characters. The art is consistent with the first book, which is pretty on it's own. They keep referring to Nuriko's sexual preference as a perversion, but that might just be because it's translated that way from Japanese and the translator just went with that for all of it's appearances. It bothers me a little, because I recall really liking Nuriko later in the series.
noveladdiction's review against another edition
3.0
The 13 year old girl in me loves this series. However, it's super campy and cheesy. And enough with the panty shots, okay? No one really wants that.
sorceress_digi's review against another edition
3.0
Seems like there's a lot of mythology and exposition just crammed in here, along with the Miaka/Tamahome romance that's just really abrupt. There's not really a sense of urgency here, aside from when Tai Yi-Jun decides it's time to test the casts' loyalty to each other... also, the time spent back in the real world is very short and i don't really see why it's necessary (at this point anyway, that answer does come later in the series). This volume was less annoying than the last but still leaves a lot to be desired.
trisa_slyne's review against another edition
5.0
Miaka reminds me of Bee from Bee and Puppycat- super awk, loves food, and still saves the world. Loving it.
bookphile's review against another edition
This one was better, but the pacing is really off. It's really hard to tell how much time has passed like at one point Miaka says she spent months at the palace, but it seems like maybe a couple of days?
The biggest problem, however, is that these characters keep doing like really ridiculous things. Like Miaka literally decides to kill herself to save Hotohori and Tamahome, which ok, is admirable. But then when she returns and is dying, both of the men injure themselves in order to give blood to Miaka. And it's like, WTF are doing??? Is it magically going to flow from you to her? I didn't realize you were in a hospital and you were a match, and not you know, in the middle of the goddam forest in Imperial China?!!
The biggest problem, however, is that these characters keep doing like really ridiculous things. Like Miaka literally decides to kill herself to save Hotohori and Tamahome, which ok, is admirable. But then when she returns and is dying, both of the men injure themselves in order to give blood to Miaka. And it's like, WTF are doing??? Is it magically going to flow from you to her? I didn't realize you were in a hospital and you were a match, and not you know, in the middle of the goddam forest in Imperial China?!!