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I Shall Survive Using Potions! Volume 1
One day, the supervisor in charge of watching over Earth was taking care of a distortion, when they made a mistake that caused Kaoru Nagase to lose her physical body. Not only that, but reincarnating her into a different, less culturally-advanced world is the only thing they can offer to do for her.
Not one to take this turn of events sitting down, Kaoru makes a demand: the power to create potions at any time she pleases, with whatever effect she wants it to have—and it doesn’t stop there either. She asks for a magical Item Box, the ability to understand and speak every language, and the same body she had back when she was a fifteen-year-old girl.
Using her newfound powers, Kaoru has to try and make a stable life for herself in a whole new world!
Not one to take this turn of events sitting down, Kaoru makes a demand: the power to create potions at any time she pleases, with whatever effect she wants it to have—and it doesn’t stop there either. She asks for a magical Item Box, the ability to understand and speak every language, and the same body she had back when she was a fifteen-year-old girl.
Using her newfound powers, Kaoru has to try and make a stable life for herself in a whole new world!
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First published June 1, 2017
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February 14, 2019
FUNA isn't the best of authors at all, but their niche of writing non-shoujo genre, female isekai heroines is rare enough that their books warrant a read.
According to the afterword, this is actually FUNA's first work and it definitely shows in terms of plot structuring and story-telling. What does make this book work is the snarky as heck protagonist who tries to be as normal, but ends up making things worse for her inadvertently.
Those who read for a clear cut plotline and adventure probably should give this book a skip, as this is basically one absurd comedy after another, with barely any plot tying it.
According to the afterword, this is actually FUNA's first work and it definitely shows in terms of plot structuring and story-telling. What does make this book work is the snarky as heck protagonist who tries to be as normal, but ends up making things worse for her inadvertently.
Those who read for a clear cut plotline and adventure probably should give this book a skip, as this is basically one absurd comedy after another, with barely any plot tying it.
January 26, 2021
Kaoru was an average office worker killed by an unexpected collision of realities. Granted the opportunity to start over, she insists on God giving her a cheat skill, a younger body, and the ability to understand all languages. Armed and ready, she embarks on her new life---only to realize she's made a colossal mistake in the bonuses she chose for herself. This isn't a typical swords-and-magic world, so her potions are recognized as literally divine!
Although the isekai genre has a number of weaknesses with its worldbuilding in general, this book is one of the worst I've read. Kaoru spends the beginning basically demanding everything she wants---and is granted, for no reason other than she asks for it. And unlike other protagonists, the gifts she's given aren't coupled with any form of consequences. She has zero restrictions on what potions she's able to make, or how they're able to be used.
Which is what makes the entire plot irrelevant.
In the beginning, for example, she worries about money. Which is incredibly stupid because why not just make a potion with a gold bottle, or a liquid that turns to gold when it's exposed to air? Why not have a potion cost mana (even if she's the only one with a mana pool of some kind) with different effects costing more or less, so that there's something resembling tactics with how these get used? The fact that she can only think of SELLING her magical potions instead of directly minting some form of precious metal is the kind of logical plothole that will persist throughout the book.
I'm also baffled at how her aggressive arguments don't come back to bite her. Especially the nonsense argument about not being a citizen. Hint: being a citizen is about RIGHTS, and if you're effectively telling the local law enforcement you've illegally entered the country and just intend to jerk around their highest authorities with arguments that they won't counter because it wouldn't be NICE . . .
Because I know this is supposed to be a lighthearted comedy/slice-of-life. It's still possible to pull that off without utterly breaking suspension of disbelief in terms of really basic structure.
Take The World's Least Interesting Master Swordsman, which has not one, not two, but at least FIVE completely broken isekai'd characters. And there, it works---the strongest swordsman points out he's only one man and it would be possible to just run around him with sheer numbers or blast him with huge AOE magic; the strongest mage is utterly incapable of using "normal-sized" magic, which leaves him quite likely to blow himself up by accident and he's effectively living in exile as a result; the man who can use every gift finds he may have the ABILITY to use all powers but not the TIME to learn to use them to their fullest, and so on. There are still limits, which makes the characters work.
Kaoru has no limits. And she seems to expect---and get---everyone around her to act like they care enough about angering the goddess or breaking human law to dance to her tune.
So although it can be mildly amusing to watch some of those arguments play out, there's ultimately no point to any of this. If anything really bad happens, she can just whip up a deus ex machina to take care of it. If I read any further, it will simply be morbid curiosity to see if she's even capable of losing.
If the setup works for you, great, but there are a lot of books that do a much better job of balancing overpowered characters with a world that doesn't make you go WHY!? every few pages. I rate this book Not Recommended.
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Although the isekai genre has a number of weaknesses with its worldbuilding in general, this book is one of the worst I've read. Kaoru spends the beginning basically demanding everything she wants---and is granted, for no reason other than she asks for it. And unlike other protagonists, the gifts she's given aren't coupled with any form of consequences. She has zero restrictions on what potions she's able to make, or how they're able to be used.
Which is what makes the entire plot irrelevant.
In the beginning, for example, she worries about money. Which is incredibly stupid because why not just make a potion with a gold bottle, or a liquid that turns to gold when it's exposed to air? Why not have a potion cost mana (even if she's the only one with a mana pool of some kind) with different effects costing more or less, so that there's something resembling tactics with how these get used? The fact that she can only think of SELLING her magical potions instead of directly minting some form of precious metal is the kind of logical plothole that will persist throughout the book.
I'm also baffled at how her aggressive arguments don't come back to bite her. Especially the nonsense argument about not being a citizen. Hint: being a citizen is about RIGHTS, and if you're effectively telling the local law enforcement you've illegally entered the country and just intend to jerk around their highest authorities with arguments that they won't counter because it wouldn't be NICE . . .
Because I know this is supposed to be a lighthearted comedy/slice-of-life. It's still possible to pull that off without utterly breaking suspension of disbelief in terms of really basic structure.
Take The World's Least Interesting Master Swordsman, which has not one, not two, but at least FIVE completely broken isekai'd characters. And there, it works---the strongest swordsman points out he's only one man and it would be possible to just run around him with sheer numbers or blast him with huge AOE magic; the strongest mage is utterly incapable of using "normal-sized" magic, which leaves him quite likely to blow himself up by accident and he's effectively living in exile as a result; the man who can use every gift finds he may have the ABILITY to use all powers but not the TIME to learn to use them to their fullest, and so on. There are still limits, which makes the characters work.
Kaoru has no limits. And she seems to expect---and get---everyone around her to act like they care enough about angering the goddess or breaking human law to dance to her tune.
So although it can be mildly amusing to watch some of those arguments play out, there's ultimately no point to any of this. If anything really bad happens, she can just whip up a deus ex machina to take care of it. If I read any further, it will simply be morbid curiosity to see if she's even capable of losing.
If the setup works for you, great, but there are a lot of books that do a much better job of balancing overpowered characters with a world that doesn't make you go WHY!? every few pages. I rate this book Not Recommended.
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September 16, 2022
she asked to be made younger because in the "new uncivilised world" women would get married younger... wtf. also this is written like... i dont even know its just written really badly. like it reads like your watching a show but its bad because its a book?
December 3, 2021
I often just browse Comixology's sales and make random decisions. Something about the title of this manga series called to me, so I popped the ol' purchase on it. Sometimes that can be a dicy way of decision-making, but in this case it worked out well.
Naoru is in her early 20s, innocently going about her life, when an action by the gods causes her death. It wasn't really her time—an unfortunate side effect of keeping the world in balance or whatever—so she's offered a new life on another world. A world kind of similar to Earth, but not as advanced. She agrees, but demands a cheat to make her transition more manageable: The ability to create any potion. It's a practical choice—you can make a career out of selling potions—and the gods submit to her demand.
While unstated, you can see the obvious riff on video games. It's obviously isekai—the term for fiction (particularly Japanese in origin) where the protagonist is transported to another world—and strongly echoes the sorts of video game tropes we see riffed in titles like Sword Art Online and Overlord (and a ton of others). And a character whose cheat demand is potions is definitely approaching their isekai experience from a video game background. What keeps I Shall Survive Using Potions! from feeling like just another, tired retread of the genre is that while Naoru approaches her demands and interactions with her new world from the sort of expectations ingrained from playing a lot of video games, this world is much less keen to actually match those expectations. That creates a really nice dynamic where the series is both entrenched in a video game perspective, yet also eclipses it.
A good example of this happens relatively early in the volume after Naoru arrives in her new world. She has no money, so makes some health potions to sell so she'll be able to rent a room and buy food. She knows from her interactions with the gods that magic exists in this world, so she assumes, you know, that stereotypical video game setup: Towns with adventurer's guilds with a bunch of adventurers who need potions to survive their excursions. And indeed she finds a town and guild and adventurers. Based on the going rate of a room for a night she figures out what the proportional value of her potions are and prices them accordingly. But her pricing is based on her expectation—and as mentioned above, this is not a world that conforms to expectations. When no one is interested in buying her potions, Naoru has to adjust her plan. It's a very clever section as the author, FUNA, does some really wonderful world development in a short amount of space, playing this contrast of Naoru's—and by extension, our own—expectations vs reality into creating a dynamic, surprising setting.
The other really smart thing FUNA does is making Naoru a character who thinks through things and solves problems with her brain. Potions can be an element of the solution, but they're not the inherent answer to every issue that crops up. It keeps I Shall Survive Using Potions! from falling into a predictable shonen-esque pattern where the potions are the only skill Naoru has, so working through the plot is leveling up her potion abilities, right? We see this kind of storytelling in the long-running anime series like Naruto where it's all about endlessly increasing power to face endlessly increasingly powerful enemies. Of course, a comparatively short manga series like I Shall Survive Using Potions! wouldn't have the length to fall into this repetitive cycle to the same wearying extent Naruto, et al, do, but it's still damned nice to see the protagonist has depth beyond "potion maker."
I'm super excited to see how this series unfolds, and if it maintains this level of smart asset use, could truly be an underrated gem.
Naoru is in her early 20s, innocently going about her life, when an action by the gods causes her death. It wasn't really her time—an unfortunate side effect of keeping the world in balance or whatever—so she's offered a new life on another world. A world kind of similar to Earth, but not as advanced. She agrees, but demands a cheat to make her transition more manageable: The ability to create any potion. It's a practical choice—you can make a career out of selling potions—and the gods submit to her demand.
While unstated, you can see the obvious riff on video games. It's obviously isekai—the term for fiction (particularly Japanese in origin) where the protagonist is transported to another world—and strongly echoes the sorts of video game tropes we see riffed in titles like Sword Art Online and Overlord (and a ton of others). And a character whose cheat demand is potions is definitely approaching their isekai experience from a video game background. What keeps I Shall Survive Using Potions! from feeling like just another, tired retread of the genre is that while Naoru approaches her demands and interactions with her new world from the sort of expectations ingrained from playing a lot of video games, this world is much less keen to actually match those expectations. That creates a really nice dynamic where the series is both entrenched in a video game perspective, yet also eclipses it.
A good example of this happens relatively early in the volume after Naoru arrives in her new world. She has no money, so makes some health potions to sell so she'll be able to rent a room and buy food. She knows from her interactions with the gods that magic exists in this world, so she assumes, you know, that stereotypical video game setup: Towns with adventurer's guilds with a bunch of adventurers who need potions to survive their excursions. And indeed she finds a town and guild and adventurers. Based on the going rate of a room for a night she figures out what the proportional value of her potions are and prices them accordingly. But her pricing is based on her expectation—and as mentioned above, this is not a world that conforms to expectations. When no one is interested in buying her potions, Naoru has to adjust her plan. It's a very clever section as the author, FUNA, does some really wonderful world development in a short amount of space, playing this contrast of Naoru's—and by extension, our own—expectations vs reality into creating a dynamic, surprising setting.
The other really smart thing FUNA does is making Naoru a character who thinks through things and solves problems with her brain. Potions can be an element of the solution, but they're not the inherent answer to every issue that crops up. It keeps I Shall Survive Using Potions! from falling into a predictable shonen-esque pattern where the potions are the only skill Naoru has, so working through the plot is leveling up her potion abilities, right? We see this kind of storytelling in the long-running anime series like Naruto where it's all about endlessly increasing power to face endlessly increasingly powerful enemies. Of course, a comparatively short manga series like I Shall Survive Using Potions! wouldn't have the length to fall into this repetitive cycle to the same wearying extent Naruto, et al, do, but it's still damned nice to see the protagonist has depth beyond "potion maker."
I'm super excited to see how this series unfolds, and if it maintains this level of smart asset use, could truly be an underrated gem.
November 14, 2020
3 stars. Not a bad read. Got some good chuckles out of me! The idea of being able to make any “potion� was a pretty innovated concept. Then you have the consequences of having such a power and Kaoru trying to avoid being a pawn...was fun seeing Kaoru get out of situations and using said situations to her advantage!
But I def had issues with the book. The jumping around from POVs and timeline kinda made the read a little bumpy. And I know this is a LN so I shouldn’t be too picky but I think had Kaoru been an old business woman in her like 60s who prioritized her business over her life versus a young woman in her early 20s with a year and 1/2 of work experience under her belt, her wealth of knowledge and ability to play people would have been more believable. I def was not that savvy at 22!
One last picky thing is I’m not really too appreciative of how a woman’s physical features are portrayed in this book. A lady knight is loveless because she’s got a muscular body (...from being a knight) but once she takes a potion that makes her slimmer and younger (like 15 in age), all of a sudden she’s getting hit on. Or the fact everyone keeps saying Kaoru looks 12 and she has guys licking their lips her way. In a way, that scene with the lady knight felt like an insult to athletic women and everything else promoting child predation :u but that was just my take on it. Hopefully that wasn’t the intent!
I’ll give book 2 a try and see if this is a series I’m interested in continuing or not :J
But I def had issues with the book. The jumping around from POVs and timeline kinda made the read a little bumpy. And I know this is a LN so I shouldn’t be too picky but I think had Kaoru been an old business woman in her like 60s who prioritized her business over her life versus a young woman in her early 20s with a year and 1/2 of work experience under her belt, her wealth of knowledge and ability to play people would have been more believable. I def was not that savvy at 22!
One last picky thing is I’m not really too appreciative of how a woman’s physical features are portrayed in this book. A lady knight is loveless because she’s got a muscular body (...from being a knight) but once she takes a potion that makes her slimmer and younger (like 15 in age), all of a sudden she’s getting hit on. Or the fact everyone keeps saying Kaoru looks 12 and she has guys licking their lips her way. In a way, that scene with the lady knight felt like an insult to athletic women and everything else promoting child predation :u but that was just my take on it. Hopefully that wasn’t the intent!
I’ll give book 2 a try and see if this is a series I’m interested in continuing or not :J
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September 7, 2021
I didn't realise until I got to the end of this and found the afterword that it was by the same author as 'Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average...' In that afterword, the author says that this was actually their first novel, but no one seemed to want to pick it up for publication and, to be honest, I can see why.
DO NOT use the sample feature to read the first part before buying. The start of this book is a mess. Until about a third (or more) of the way in, I figured there was no way I'd try volume 2, but once things really get going, things improve a lot. The protagonist really gets going when she gets her rant on, and the latter parts of the book tend to avoid the massively excessive exposition common toward the start.
One feature I still find difficult to like is the habit of jumping between viewpoints at a moment's notice and without any real indication that it's happening. One moment you're reading third person, the next it's first. If the first-person passages just stuck to the protagonist, that wouldn't be so bad, but you can find yourself in the head of just about anyone if the author thinks their perspective is needed. It's confusing and doesn't add to the story in any meaningful way. Tolerable, but not great.
All in all, this is basically a power fantasy (though not a 'I can kill anything!' power fantasy, more a battle of wits) with a good deal of effective humour. If you can battle through the first part and get to the meat, I think it's worth the read.
DO NOT use the sample feature to read the first part before buying. The start of this book is a mess. Until about a third (or more) of the way in, I figured there was no way I'd try volume 2, but once things really get going, things improve a lot. The protagonist really gets going when she gets her rant on, and the latter parts of the book tend to avoid the massively excessive exposition common toward the start.
One feature I still find difficult to like is the habit of jumping between viewpoints at a moment's notice and without any real indication that it's happening. One moment you're reading third person, the next it's first. If the first-person passages just stuck to the protagonist, that wouldn't be so bad, but you can find yourself in the head of just about anyone if the author thinks their perspective is needed. It's confusing and doesn't add to the story in any meaningful way. Tolerable, but not great.
All in all, this is basically a power fantasy (though not a 'I can kill anything!' power fantasy, more a battle of wits) with a good deal of effective humour. If you can battle through the first part and get to the meat, I think it's worth the read.
August 8, 2022
Kaoru is a 22-year graduate from an university and office worker in Japan who rather suddenly explodes while on her way home: courtesy of a dimensional rift that escaped the notice of the resident guardian until it was too late. Feeling guilty, the guardian offers her a new life in another world. Somewhat miffed, she accepts, negotiation a deal with the guardian of said new world. Kaoru can now craft any potion she can imagine in any container she can imagine. What Kaoru forgot to ask though was how much magic the world contained. Since the answer was virtually none, her power had a lot more impact then she thought it would. Now she has to find her place without ending up in somebodies basement as a slave generating potion after potion.
While the world building is fairly generic (minus the presence of a system or much of magic) medieval European fantasy setting, the author does give the impact of abilities some thought. The characters are likeable, with MC being mostly smart, if a bit quick to jump to conclusions. It is very much a slice-of-life story with little to no action, and quiet some introspection which I tend to like. It is a bit optimistic and in favour of the MC though, much like the author's other work.
All in all, a quick entertaining read and a good change of pace.
While the world building is fairly generic (minus the presence of a system or much of magic) medieval European fantasy setting, the author does give the impact of abilities some thought. The characters are likeable, with MC being mostly smart, if a bit quick to jump to conclusions. It is very much a slice-of-life story with little to no action, and quiet some introspection which I tend to like. It is a bit optimistic and in favour of the MC though, much like the author's other work.
All in all, a quick entertaining read and a good change of pace.
December 31, 2022
I do not see where this light novel is going, it really has no point. The main character Kaoru, can make alchemist potions of whatever she can "think up" in whatever container she can think of as well...No studies in alchemy whatsoever, no schooling ever needed, no special skills to be learned ever. Just like the start to many isekais from Japan, the "God in charge" messed up and "killed the protagonist" so in compensation gave them "cheat-level"/"God-skill-level abilities or such. There are much better Light Novels/Web Novels that exploit this genre (In Another World with my Smartphone, Reincarnated as the last of my Kind, I've been Killing Slimes for 300 years..., Lazy Dungeon Master, etc.) Even series like Spirit Chronicles and Jobless Reincarnation, that end up terrible do a better job than this Potions series at setting up a character in another world and creating a story worth reading...
This is the first light novel series where the main character is incredibly bossy without being anybody (having no authority or responsibility). The main character wants to be "left alone" and yet "messes with everybody" in this other world from the get-go.
I do not recommend this light novel series...
This is the first light novel series where the main character is incredibly bossy without being anybody (having no authority or responsibility). The main character wants to be "left alone" and yet "messes with everybody" in this other world from the get-go.
I do not recommend this light novel series...
November 15, 2023
Imagine getting a do over with a few cheat skills that you get to choose? Kaoru is a simple girl, she wants a family and children and a stressless life where she can do whatever she wants, that's not asking too much is it?
Kaoru, a twenty something young office worker, is killed by accident by a mistake by god, he can't correct it or give back her body so offers her a new start in another world. Kaoru rolls with it since there really isn't much she can do about it but she isn't a fool, she wants to bargain for a few cheat skills. Kaoru wants an easy leisurely life where she can live a normal life, stay healthy, and make some easy money and help people along the way, so the best option - being able to make any kind of potions she wants.
This is a lighthearted comedy for the most part, Kaoru is a smart and savvy girl, but since she is new to this world there is a lot she needs to figure out in order to get the easy life she wants. She has all the goods to make it happen, if only she can get the nobles, priests, and political opportunist to leave her alone everything would be great.
Kaoru, a twenty something young office worker, is killed by accident by a mistake by god, he can't correct it or give back her body so offers her a new start in another world. Kaoru rolls with it since there really isn't much she can do about it but she isn't a fool, she wants to bargain for a few cheat skills. Kaoru wants an easy leisurely life where she can live a normal life, stay healthy, and make some easy money and help people along the way, so the best option - being able to make any kind of potions she wants.
This is a lighthearted comedy for the most part, Kaoru is a smart and savvy girl, but since she is new to this world there is a lot she needs to figure out in order to get the easy life she wants. She has all the goods to make it happen, if only she can get the nobles, priests, and political opportunist to leave her alone everything would be great.
May 7, 2022
It’s like a train wreck and a dumpster fire had a baby, and that baby was ugly..
The premise was interesting and it started out alright (fairly generic for an isekai LN but nothing egregious), but the story quickly devolves into a nonsensical mess. It’s a Mary Sue story in the original sense of the phrase, with the world and characters bending around the sheer force of how much of a protagonist character Kaoru is.
Pacing, additionally, is all over the place, and generally you’re never really given any time to appreciate circumstances before suddenly everything’s changed. Side characters are all pretty meaningless, and overall there just isn’t much of anything to get attached to in the story at all.
Some of the ideas in here could have been good, but the poor execution leaves me feeling like this is just a showing of the worst isekai has to offer as a genre.
The premise was interesting and it started out alright (fairly generic for an isekai LN but nothing egregious), but the story quickly devolves into a nonsensical mess. It’s a Mary Sue story in the original sense of the phrase, with the world and characters bending around the sheer force of how much of a protagonist character Kaoru is.
Pacing, additionally, is all over the place, and generally you’re never really given any time to appreciate circumstances before suddenly everything’s changed. Side characters are all pretty meaningless, and overall there just isn’t much of anything to get attached to in the story at all.
Some of the ideas in here could have been good, but the poor execution leaves me feeling like this is just a showing of the worst isekai has to offer as a genre.
January 23, 2024
The story is cute and fun
Kaoru is a 22-year old office worker in Japan fresh out of college. One day while going about her business, she's accidentally killed by a god's mistake
Isekai shenanigans happen and she uses her knowledge of light novels and Japanese pop culture to get some pretty favorable (and silly skills) for her new life, befriending the goddess of her new world in the process
The story doesn't take itself too seriously and the reader shouldn't either
Kaoru goes about her days wanting to live a peaceful life while sharing her gifts and knowledge with those around her (and eventually find a husband), but due to her absurd skill and quirky misunderstandings of what is considered "normal", she is regularly getting into situations she has to creatively talk her way out of
The series is a nice change of pace and I'm looking forward to where it goes from here
Kaoru is a 22-year old office worker in Japan fresh out of college. One day while going about her business, she's accidentally killed by a god's mistake
Isekai shenanigans happen and she uses her knowledge of light novels and Japanese pop culture to get some pretty favorable (and silly skills) for her new life, befriending the goddess of her new world in the process
The story doesn't take itself too seriously and the reader shouldn't either
Kaoru goes about her days wanting to live a peaceful life while sharing her gifts and knowledge with those around her (and eventually find a husband), but due to her absurd skill and quirky misunderstandings of what is considered "normal", she is regularly getting into situations she has to creatively talk her way out of
The series is a nice change of pace and I'm looking forward to where it goes from here
February 12, 2019
I saw this and knew I wanted to read it then I saw who the author was and recognized the name from another series Didn't I Say To Make My Abilities Average In The Next Life?! and i knew I would enjoy it, I wasn't disappointed. Its a typical reincarnated in another world novel with a type of over powered main character but with its own style and uniqueness its a nice addition to the genre. You can recognize a few similar minor details to the authors other work but it's done in a different way entirely. I really enjoyed this and I look forward to seeing what direction the author decides to go with it.
October 24, 2019
Flawed writing and formatting neat story
The big standout issue with this book is the jarring switching between characters perspectives. 90% of the book is first person perspective of the main character, but will suddenly switch to first person perspective of another character. This happens often with no good break to show a transition forcing the reader to go back and fix it once they are given enough information that a character change took place.
It also does this once or twice with sudden mostly irrelevant time skips and goes back.
These make parts very annoying to read but... The story behind it is somewhat interesting and I'm a sucker for isekai stories.
The big standout issue with this book is the jarring switching between characters perspectives. 90% of the book is first person perspective of the main character, but will suddenly switch to first person perspective of another character. This happens often with no good break to show a transition forcing the reader to go back and fix it once they are given enough information that a character change took place.
It also does this once or twice with sudden mostly irrelevant time skips and goes back.
These make parts very annoying to read but... The story behind it is somewhat interesting and I'm a sucker for isekai stories.
February 13, 2019
Good story and a peculiar main character
I liked this book a lot, it is not the first one I pick up from the author and I like the style used to write and the main character.
The classic reborn in another world set up with a main character that asked for cheat powers when she was reborn... The story varied there from the classical and makes a quick turn to a MC looking for a peaceful life but ends up making a huge impression on those she meets
I liked this book a lot, it is not the first one I pick up from the author and I like the style used to write and the main character.
The classic reborn in another world set up with a main character that asked for cheat powers when she was reborn... The story varied there from the classical and makes a quick turn to a MC looking for a peaceful life but ends up making a huge impression on those she meets
March 21, 2024
love it
Karou is just amazing. I honestly think her death wasn’t an accident but on purpose to help the other world. The gods knew ahead of time the change she would make. I honestly like how she’s now abusing her powers and how she truly feels for those in need. I can’t wait to continue her journey.
Karou is just amazing. I honestly think her death wasn’t an accident but on purpose to help the other world. The gods knew ahead of time the change she would make. I honestly like how she’s now abusing her powers and how she truly feels for those in need. I can’t wait to continue her journey.
March 16, 2019
Ten thoughts on this book:
Kaoru is a delightful protagonist.
J-Novel Club refers to this as #potionloli
I found it utterly engrossing after part 2.
Kaoru is as OP as Kirito
The world is not particularly fleshed out.
3.5 vignettes make the story feel fragmented.
Watching Kaoru outfox the competition never gets old.
Her potions are the definition of deus ex mockingjay.
Best line: “Um� Why are Celes’s boobs so big on that statue of her?�
Verdict: I will eagerly anticipate the sequel.
Kaoru is a delightful protagonist.
J-Novel Club refers to this as #potionloli
I found it utterly engrossing after part 2.
Kaoru is as OP as Kirito
The world is not particularly fleshed out.
3.5 vignettes make the story feel fragmented.
Watching Kaoru outfox the competition never gets old.
Her potions are the definition of deus ex mockingjay.
Best line: “Um� Why are Celes’s boobs so big on that statue of her?�
Verdict: I will eagerly anticipate the sequel.
March 21, 2019
Original wishes for reincarnation
I liked her showdown with local powers that be. Also amused by how she got jewels for ball. Don"t think gluttony funny. Not like she has hyper metabolism of Syphon.
I liked her showdown with local powers that be. Also amused by how she got jewels for ball. Don"t think gluttony funny. Not like she has hyper metabolism of Syphon.
April 22, 2019
Entertaining
It was enternaing and quick to read, but nothing really happened; there was no conflict of any kind in this story.
If you're looking for something relaxing to pass a few hours, then this is for you.
It was enternaing and quick to read, but nothing really happened; there was no conflict of any kind in this story.
If you're looking for something relaxing to pass a few hours, then this is for you.
December 24, 2019
Interesting
I liked this book because of the manga and it was a pretty interesting read. It was different from all the other isekai that are now out. I didn’t like the different perspectives that randomly happen because it is such a sudden change of POV.
I liked this book because of the manga and it was a pretty interesting read. It was different from all the other isekai that are now out. I didn’t like the different perspectives that randomly happen because it is such a sudden change of POV.
February 18, 2020
Just so much fun
I am a fan of isakei and strong heroines so this really was a great find! I laughed more times than I expected. Great story and the heroine is funny and very clever.
I am a fan of isakei and strong heroines so this really was a great find! I laughed more times than I expected. Great story and the heroine is funny and very clever.
August 14, 2021
Entertaining and hilarious, but a bit too all over the place with the storyline and perspectives - it's jarring going from 1st person to 3rd person and then also switching the narration from 1 character to another in quick succession.
February 3, 2022
Any isekai without an OP male protagonist followed by a plethora of bimbo’s vying to be one of his 30 wives, gets an extra star from me. This is an interesting premise sadly I dropped off around book 4 from a lack of interest where the story was heading.
November 29, 2022
Didn't finish it. I couldn't. It reads like a middle school student tried to put into words all the worst tropes of anime, ran it through Google Translate a few dozen times, and slapped it into a book.
March 27, 2023
Different in a great way
Funa has done it again! Another great story with a smart female lead who uses her skills and knowledge to help in completely unexpected ways. Can't wait to read the next one!
Funa has done it again! Another great story with a smart female lead who uses her skills and knowledge to help in completely unexpected ways. Can't wait to read the next one!
January 7, 2025
It was decent enough read with the main character having to go to a different world cuz God made a mistake and she went back to looking younger. Pretty quick witted and tries to help with her abilities she asked for, and heals ppl with potions when wanted.
February 18, 2019
Great story
Loved this novel, can't wait for the next one. If a manga is done, I will definitely read that too. Thank you funa for bringing an interesting story to life.
Loved this novel, can't wait for the next one. If a manga is done, I will definitely read that too. Thank you funa for bringing an interesting story to life.
March 6, 2019
I liked the story, but did not really connect with the author's way of writing. I also had this problem with a different story of hers, so it might be just me.
May 24, 2019
Loving this Book!
I'm really liking this series already, Kaoru is so adorable! Funa definitely knows how to write an interesting and funny book!
I'm really liking this series already, Kaoru is so adorable! Funa definitely knows how to write an interesting and funny book!
July 30, 2020
Its a decent book though not my cup of tea, I would reccomend reading "Didn't I say to make my abilities averege" if you liked this one though, as it is in my opinion far better
April 8, 2021
Love the strong female character
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