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Really good high fantasy series. At first its a little bit awkward because the protagonist is always anxious and insecure in her identity due to her memories of her past life as an ojisan, but that initial awkwardness is pretty much over and done with after the first 100 chapters. During which, She slowly grows into her current identity as a girl, and eventually, stops feeling uncomfortable in her own skin. After that, it's just good high fantasy action with a little bit of eroticism mixed in for good measure. (Don't worry it never goes full 18+, though the characters do canonically have s*x, just off-screen). And lots of yuri. Honestly speaking though, I'm a little bit put-off by the tendency towards harem in this novel, especially because the MC is in a pretty serious relationship for most of the series. I love the side characters, I really do, but I also really love the main girls' relationship, so I'm always a bit torn when the MC wavers.*Sigh* Maybe I wouldn't feel so bad about it, if it was written in a way so that the characters hadn't established such a serious relationship so early on, (first 200 chapters), and instead kept it more ambiguous as most harem novels tend to do. Or if the main couple had started their relationship with the premise that there would be more girls joining in later. In this case, it sometimes kind of almost feels like cheating. Simply put: It's nice when we get a funny lucky-pe*vert moment with the other girls, but I don't wanna see my Elhayme-chan cry and feel legitimately guilty afterwards.One more thing to note: there is a war slowly brewing in the background that eventually comes to the forefront as the series goes on, so there's lots of dramatic tension as the characters go off to the front, and we don't know if they'll come back alive or not. While this is a fantasy world, both sides of the war are very much working on improving their technologies/techniques, and neither side is weak in comparison to the other, so the risk of death is very real. On the other hand, normal fantasy monsters are just fodder, unless they group up.