A story I’ve recently gotten into and immediately fell in love with. I’ll start by saying I know nothing about what it is based off of and have only read this. The series has a feeling of wonder that is hard to create and harder to maintain but manages it quite well. It’s a powerful story on the state of people, the interaction of races, and the value power and love of books. All of this is extenuated by the magic of the fantasy world it’s set in. It’s not afraid to tackle the issues of prejudice, ignorance and overestimation. I eagerly await more volumes.

It's only good if its the first piece of fiction you've interacted with. The most typical of trite children stories. This will never be someone's favorite. It masks the lack of storytelling skill with enthusiasm and passion for the subject at hand, "isn't literature awesome!". It's world isn't vast like it pretends it is, the quirks of different races are nothing more than the same old stereotypes you see in any typical school setting, she's fiery, she's stern; the world building only serves to write a wikipedia entry no one will care to read, not to tell a story, that's why the information is presented either through narration, or through non-diagetic encyclopedic like entries. The goal of our protagonist is to become a kafna, the obstacle, their own ineptitude, what do they have to do? we don't actually know. A written test is currently our hurdle, the contents of which are unknown to the audience, this is our only measure of accomplishment


There are no stakes, there are no penalties for failing, and we don't even see him try to improve for more than 5 panels, and I'm not exaggerating on that,he just says to people that he really really needs to. To anyone that can answer me, what happens if he keeps failing? what happens? does he get kicked out of the program? no, because the teachers are understanding and wise and good, so what is he fighting against? himself? he's an eternal optimist so that doesn't work. It's like the author wanted to create the idyllic world they've always had in their mind, but they forgot they were writing a story. A student was set up as a rival for two panels and got immediately told off by the wise old lady. Only in the latest volume do we get a shadow of an antagonist, after 30 chapters; does that not sound that bad? remember these chapters are an average of 50 pages, with some that go well beyond that. Do we actually get anything concrete that involves Theo? no, it's still just set up, it's still just at the teasing stage, remember promises about a grand tale were made, since the beginning, and they're still being made now. Imagine a regular-lenght manga taking 100 chapters before a glimpse of an obstacle. It is tedious

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