Friday, April 9, 2021

Mini Reviews: Vanguard of the Eternal Night, Kyoudai Biyori, I Am a Duchess Who Has Rewound Nine Times, but My Tenth Life Seems to Be a Reward Mode

Title: Vanguard of the Eternal Night
Author: The Aria At The Fingertips
Chapters: 157 chapters
Publication: 2016
Summary from Novel Updates:

A master assassin transmigrates into an interstellar era.

Other players were responsible for competing in the e-sports arena, while he was responsible for stringing up and beating up the other players.

His sword was hidden during the peak of day, and he was a gentleman who arrived in a flash of light. As a vanguard of the eternal night, he was the variable between life and death in the world.

“As you know, the Star League’s difficulty levels are arranged in this way:

Paradise < Simple < Normal < Difficult < Nightmare < Hell < [Tyron Odin]”

4 STARS - I REALLY LIKED IT

MY REVIEW: 

The serious summary does not even hint at the amount of hilarity and fluff this book contains! This was such an entertaining read. 

You have a super beautiful, indifferent assassin gong who's used to living in the shadows. He transmigrates to the future and doesn't understand modern interstellar people's thought processes, which is hilarious. However, he starts to like teasing one of his fanboys and is smooth as hell about it. Like wow, he wouldn't even need to show his face to get Yu Yan to fall for him if he just started off using those lines. 

I love Yu Yan's duality. He's super soft and a huge fanboy in front of his male god, but he's a super intelligent noble elite who can easily play the overbearing CEO role in the name of justice lmao. 

There's so many fluffy interactions between them in between all of the exciting competition matches. This book has the perfect amount of action, humor, tension, and romance. 

Also, I've never read about such passionate and obsessed fans as the Rainy Day Cult lmao. If I could see that iconic scene in person, I'd probably also join it lol.


Title: Kyoudai Biyori
Author: Tsuge Amayo
Chapters: 5 chapters + 2 extras
Publication: 2008
Summary from Manga Updates:

After his parents go overseas for a few months to work, Kouta, a college student, gets to live in the family house again with his brother Tetsurou, who came back from Tokyo to keep him company. Kouta hasn’t seen his big brother for six years, and doesn’t really get along with him. The situation soon gets awkward when Kouta realizes he doesn’t know anything about his brother... And it gets worse when he becomes aware that the antipathy he felt towards him, might be more ambiguous than he previously thought...

3 STARS - I LIKED IT

MY REVIEW: 

I was immediately hooked from the beginning. This is a slice of life incest romance. You'd think that there would be a lot of angst and tragedy since it's such a taboo topic. Instead, the story is immersed in tension and melancholy as it transitions between the past and present as they figure out their future. 

The art style really heightened the tension. Tetsurou's expressions, especially in the first chapter, were just *chef's kiss*


Title: I Am a Duchess Who Has Rewound Nine Times, but My Tenth Life Seems to Be a Reward Mode
Author: Shinoda Mikan
Chapters: 81 chapters 
Publication: 2020
Summary from Novel Updates:

After her fiancé was stolen by Mia, a saint who came from another world, Duchess Alicia Grants was sentenced to death and executed.

Every time she died, her life was rewound. Each time, Prince Maximilian would be captivated by Mia!

As such, Alicia kept being executed, executed, and executed!

It was in her tenth life when she was finally reborn as the poor Baroness Ally.

‘I’m no longer involved with princes and saints!’

Then she decided to work as a maid in the royal palace for her sickly younger brother.

For some reason, Prince Maximilian didn’t give any attention to Saint Mia and began to dote on Baroness Ally…

3 STARS - I LIKED IT

MY REVIEW: 

This was a satire on the transmigration genre. In typical transmigration books, the main character is the one who comes from a different world and usually with some OP skill to make their integration into society easier. However, in this book, it takes place from a villainess's point of view and shows just how dangerous it is to suddenly have an outsider come into your world and how easily one person can mess things up. 

However, it's also hilarious because in Ally's tenth life, she makes big changes in herself and finds out that certain main characters also changed. Just know that muscles is power. That's all you really need to know lmao. Also, the translator's notes at the end of every chapter is also hilarious. 

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