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I’m So Done with This Series

The Alchemist Who Survived Now Dreams of a Quiet City Life, vol. 5 by Usata Nonohara

June 19, 2022 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I totally only read this book to finish the story; I’d kind of given up on The Alchemist Who Survived Now Dreams of a Quiet City Life but I wanted to see how the main group of heroes would save the day as they inevitably would (and did). One of the only reasons this conclusion to the question of will they be bale to defeat the Labyrinth and how isn’t a bad finish is because there’s not much of either Mariela or Sieg. Throughout the […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, dungeon crawling, light novel, The Alchemist Who Survived Now Dreams of a Quiet City Life (Vol. 5), usata nonohara

CoffeeShopReader's CBR14 Review No:48 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, dungeon crawling, light novel, The Alchemist Who Survived Now Dreams of a Quiet City Life (Vol. 5), usata nonohara ·
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Something old and something new

Drrr!! SH x1 by Ryohgo Narita, Suzuhito Yasuda

June 4, 2022 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I’ve been away from the Drrr!! series for a little while; I honestly thought it was over. Apparently, the novels at least keep going and I just found the first one of the next sequence of the story. The original premise is still kind of there, but with some tweaks: there’s a series of interconnected characters in this one Tokyo neighborhood and mysterious goings on (some disappearances) that may or may not be supernatural. There is one character who is not human, although Celty the […]

Filed Under: Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: anime, Drrr!! SH, ikebukuro, light novel, manga, ryohgo narita, Ryohgo Narita, Suzuhito Yasuda, Suzuhito Yasuda

CoffeeShopReader's CBR14 Review No:43 · Genres: Speculative Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: anime, Drrr!! SH, ikebukuro, light novel, manga, ryohgo narita, Ryohgo Narita, Suzuhito Yasuda, Suzuhito Yasuda ·
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Why is it impossible to be both kind and smart for the lead character?!

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Roads Lead to Doom! (light novel volume 7) by Satorou Yamaguchi, Nami Hidaka

October 24, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Quick Premise review: a modern day Japanese schoolgirl dies after being hit by a car and wakes up as the villainess in her favorite romance role-playing video game. She uses her knowledge of the game to avoid the bad endings for her character, but now she finds herself in the sequel which did not get a chance to play during her previous life. Finally there is some actual worldbuilding and some actual characters develop in My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, anime, isekai, light novel, manga, My Next Life as a Villainess: All Roads Lead to Doom!, Nami Hidaka, Satorou Yamaguchi, Satorou Yamaguchi, Nami Hidaka, video game fiction

CoffeeShopReader's CBR13 Review No:88 · Genres: Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, anime, isekai, light novel, manga, My Next Life as a Villainess: All Roads Lead to Doom!, Nami Hidaka, Satorou Yamaguchi, Satorou Yamaguchi, Nami Hidaka, video game fiction ·
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Light Fluff is Good Sometimes

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Vol. 5 by Satoru Yamaguchi, Nami Hidaka

May 7, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

So certain times of year coincide with heavier professional workloads, and when that happens, I tend to gravitate towards much lighter reading, things like My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! (volume 5). This is a light novel series that has been turned into both a manga and an anime. The premise is that a high school girl obsessed with a certain kind of video game dies, and is reincarnated as the antagonist of her favorite dating video game. A bump […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, anime, isekai, light novel, manga, My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Vol. 5, Nami Hidaka, otome, Satoru Yamaguchi, Satoru Yamaguchi, Nami Hidaka, video game, Young Adult Romance

CoffeeShopReader's CBR13 Review No:38 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, anime, isekai, light novel, manga, My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Vol. 5, Nami Hidaka, otome, Satoru Yamaguchi, Satoru Yamaguchi, Nami Hidaka, video game, Young Adult Romance ·
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A- for general story, B for narration and characterization, overall entertaining fluff

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Vol. 4 by Satoru Yamaguchi, Nami Hidaka

January 17, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

In some ways I am about to continue my most recent review. A while back I thought I was ordering volume 4 of the manga (see previous review) when what I actually ordered and what showed up was volume 4 of the light novel series upon which the graphic novels are based. What this means is that the story is further along. The question then becomes do I read the book I accidentally bought even thought that means I may be missing some in-between that […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, light novel, My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Vol. 4, Nami Hidaka, Romance, Satoru Yamaguchi, Satoru Yamaguchi, Nami Hidaka, video game, yougn adult

CoffeeShopReader's CBR13 Review No:5 · Genres: Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, light novel, My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Vol. 4, Nami Hidaka, Romance, Satoru Yamaguchi, Satoru Yamaguchi, Nami Hidaka, video game, yougn adult ·
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I’m not sorry this one’s almost over

The Alchemist Who Survived Now Dreams of a Quiet City Life (Vol. 4) by Usata Nonohara, Ox (illustrator)

December 26, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I’m pretty sure I’m only going to finish this series because the premise had potential at the beginning and several of the side characters were interesting. I’m kind of glad that the main storyline ends with the next installment which apparently just came out. I saw that novel may not be the end of the story, but I mostly don’t care anymore. So, in The Alchemist Who Survived Now Dreams of a Quiet City Life (part 4), we get a new character who I was […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, alchemist, alchemy, dungeon crawl, light novel, ox, the alchemist who survived now dreams of a quiet city life, usata nonohara, Usata Nonohara, Ox (illustrator), volume 4

CoffeeShopReader's CBR12 Review No:87 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, alchemist, alchemy, dungeon crawl, light novel, ox, the alchemist who survived now dreams of a quiet city life, usata nonohara, Usata Nonohara, Ox (illustrator), volume 4 ·
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