Tag: J-Novel Club
May 8, 2022 · 0 comments
Books: The Magic in This Other World is Too Far Behind
By Shelley Pallis. Belying his humdrum title, Hitsuji Gamei’s novel The Magic in This Other World is Too Far Behind kicks off with an original and exciting double-bluff. Using the language of fairy tales, he chronicles the rise to power of Felmenia Stingray, a nobleman’s daughter who masters many magical arts at a young age, […]
April 23, 2022 · 0 comments
Books: By the Grace of the Gods
By Shelley Pallis. And then he died. In his sleep, because of a particularly powerful sneeze. Ryoma Takebayashi wakes up at tea party in heaven with several gods, and accepts his fate with customary light-novel equanimity. A downtrodden salaryman in a dead-end job, he had seen many of his co-workers die from overwork and a […]
April 20, 2022 · 0 comments
Manga: Animeta
By Jonathan Clements. It’s hard indeed to compete with the sort of granular detail and insight of Shirobako, but Animeta does a fine job from the very first pages, in which cynical staff at an anime company bicker over the poor quality of new hirelings. Facing a bunch of talentless drudges, the go-getting director Kujo […]
April 11, 2022 · 0 comments
Books: In Another World with My Smartphone
By Shelley Pallis. And then he was struck by lightning, and it was a mistake, but it was too late, and he was dead. Well, that’s not a customer complaint that the Guardian is going to be able to deal with in a couple of phone calls. Fifteen-year-old Touya Mochizuki has indeed just been killed […]
February 15, 2022 · 0 comments
Books: I Shall Survive Using Potions
By Shelley Pallis. And then she died. Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey – a man in a toga who calls himself God shows up to tell Kaoru the Office Lady that she’s accidentally wandered into a spatial anomaly, and (sorry about this) she’d dead. Well, her body’s dead, his not-all-that-godlike powers couldn’t keep her from stepping into the […]