A review by 2kimi2furious
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit by Nahoko Uehashi

2.0

I wanted to like this a lot more than I did. I really enjoyed the plot and the world the story was set in, but the actual writing was so difficult to get through. The language used seemed all over the place and the prose felt like something a 10 year old boy would write.

To be fair, this problem was probably because of the translation. I am sure reading it in the original Japanese would have been a lot nicer. Things would have flowed better and the characters wouldn't have sounded so weird. Also sentences that are stunted and weird in the English version probably would have been a lot more poignant and poetic in the Japanese version. This was a bad translation and I felt like scholastic could have done a better job of this.

I would probably recommend this to young boys or older boys with lower reading levels who love fighting manga. This seems right up their alleys.