- #1
A fun read with addictive pacing and a good balance of heavy and light moments. If you can read japanese then go straight for the LN since it seems like bits were rewritten for the better during the editing process.First volume fleshes out the main character and her motivations while the second one builds the world up. The former has a much more serious tone to it given what Ryou goes and it hits the right notes in showing just how scarred she is by her abandonment issues. It makes her out to be a very sympathetic character so reading how the poor girl works through them with the help of those around her is fairly cathartic. The end of the first book ends with plenty to look forward to given what gets set up once Ryou is given the chance to decide her future.Second volume has her in a much better place, logistically and mentally speaking. Her narration takes on a much lighter cheekier tone befitting a teenager a few years older than her presently 10 year old self save for the insights being reincarnated from modern Earth affords her. The setting elements that get brought in through this volume brings up some interesting questions on what a society overly dependent on their upper caste would be like. Things go almost too smoothly for her this time around though pushing her somewhat into Mary Sue territory but given the direction of her growth and what she gets up to here, I suspect the conflict and heavier tone from the first volume will start coming back with the third volume where it seems consequences are awaiting her. Bits and pieces of her new world are adding up and they're forming a picture of an imminent revolution that she's already playing an indirect role in. One particular subplot has been played for effective Monty Python-esque humor but with how it's progressing it's only a matter of time before it brings serious complications for the great Uoyr. There's plenty waiting to unfold by the end of the book and things end on a promising cliffhanger so I'm very much looking forward to where they'll lead.