Classroom of the Elite Light Novel Review — Is It Worth Reading? I’ve read 30 volumes of Classroom of the Elite. All of Year 1, all of Year 2. And the honest answer to “is it worth reading” is yes,…
Spice and Wolf gets described as “a medieval economics romance” so often that the phrase has lost all meaning. Let me try again: it’s a road trip story between a centuries-old wolf deity and a merchant who’s trying to retire.…
Volume 1 of Classroom of the Elite is a trap. Not a bad trap. A deliberate one. Kinugasa wrote the opening volume to read like a slow school drama with a clever protagonist, and then on the last page he…
Volume 1 of The Apothecary Diaries was a proof of concept. Here’s Maomao. She’s brilliant, she’s caustic, she solves mysteries with medicine. You’re in or you’re out. Volume 2 is where Natsu Hyuuga starts proving this isn’t a one-trick series.…
The premise sounds simple enough: a pharmacist’s daughter gets kidnapped and sold into service in an imperial palace. She solves mysteries using medicine. But The Apothecary Diaries Volume 1 is one of those rare light novels where the premise undersells…
