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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 […]

A Video Game with an Unbeatable Hero?

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime vol 15 by Fuse, Taiki Kawakami, Mitz Vah

May 9, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I’m probably going to be on my manga review for a little while yet, while I recover from the Spring 2021 semester. Until then, here’s my review of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime vol. 15 (manga). As I’ve noted in reviews of previous volumes, this story seems to have a protagonist who cannot be defeated, only temporarily maybe a little slowed down. That has not changed; what has changed is something of a personality shift in Rimuru, the titular slime. In the […]

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 […]

Talking Slime and Generic Fantasy Gets Interesting

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime vol 13 by Fuse, Taiki Kawakami, Mitz Vah

September 12, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Bingo Review 22: I Wish Sometimes, even pre-now world times, there are moments of kind of daydream wishing that I might be able to be a part of a fictional world I have been reading, and it’s almost always a fantasy (pun not totally intended). That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime is on the one hand, generic fantasy based on common gaming tropes, but on the other also interesting enough for some of the political and social elements of the world that have […]

A Unlikable Bibliophile is Actually Possible; I have proof

Ascendance of a Bookworm (Part 1 Vol 1) by Miya Kazuki

June 20, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I sat on this review a while because I didn’t want to hit cannonball with something I had significant issues with. I have one big issue with Ascendance of a Bookworm (Part 1 Vol 1) and it’s the heroine. The premise is pretty straightforward: Urano is obsessed with books (both as objects and for reading) and she’s about to graduate college and start a job in a library as is her dream. She dies in a book avalanche, and suddenly wakes up in the body […]

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