Feb 4, 2024
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Genre: [Webnovel]NU
Adventure Fantasy Romance Seinen Slice of Life
Genres MAL
Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Slice of Life
Based on my observation MAL was more spot on, since seinen or romance are almost non existent. Seinen in particular is the weakest point here.
A nice slow paced slice of life manga about a man who transmigrated to fantasy world with his dog who actually was a silver fenrir (one of the mightiest monsters in the world).
This manga has Light Novel and WebNovel (to date +1700chapters) translated about 550. chapter 20 of the manga is roughly chapter 89 of the WN.
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Story 7/10
This is a preliminary scoring based on the fact that there is a lot of content but there are problems with misleading genre placement (in other web pages MAL is spot on).
Story is slow, light hearted and contains a lot of slice of life pieces without much drama if any.
Romance implied but based on WN reviewers authors going to milk that cow until he would start to lose readers. Since romance would bring a second and last breath to this story. The problem stems that it's more like edging fetish, you can grasp it but you cannot touch it. (Typical)
Seinen thing, not even a bit. It's overly positive, go lucky vibe. People are not resentful nor are they calculating. Big favors are taken as nothing much. In short it's what you expect from adults wanting to show children how adults act NOT how they actually act.
Is it bad? Not really, it was interesting to read it but as an adult I was thinking of MC as a foolish person sometimes. Acting arrogantly is of course over the board but considering his "gifts" and position he doesn't use it, and instead he is easily taken advantage of (without malice of course but any person who has an average brain power would see it as unfair trade deal). So a typical naive and foolish MC, i sometimes wonder if it some sort of japanese male deep fantasy to be exploited by everyone around them.
Characters 6/10
Cardboard cutouts sadly, overly good natured people that it is almost too painful to watch. As they say I don't feel their souls, more like puppets playing their play. Author created goodness but underneath that goodness there is ignorant malice which is frustrating to watch. Our world setting doesn't allow us to be one-sidedly good and not calculating, in order to create people that author created he would also need to create a unique world setting which would explain why people are like that.
On the other hand, manga-novel might be from the perspective of our naive MC with his rose colored glasses which would explain a lot. In our transactional world, what i saw: Duchess is taking advantage of a slightly foolish and naive traveler with platitudes and thank yous and small monetary compensation which makes him think that his favors are nothing compared to the above stated platitudes.
From objective standpoint, ducal house received a powerful guest (aka an ally or supporter in noble world). Monetary monopoly on basically infinite monetary source where they set the bar of profit. Powerful monster that is basically this kingdom's national animal. And some other favors that are not small (if told could be considered a spoiler).
Art 7/10
Nice art, nothing much can be said. It was pleasant to the eye, but somehow fashion is a mix between fantasy kingdom setting and 20th century with 17th-18th century mixed it. Speech bubbles and panel placement up to standard.
Enjoyment 7/10
A pleasant read if not for above stated problems which sometimes kick you out of immersion.
Overall 7/10
Recommend to read but do not expect much progression or action, close your eyes on some stupidity in order to have a "fluffy journey" or else you would experience the same disappointment as me.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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