January 30, 2023

isekai harry potter

I watched the anime adaptations of this many moons ago. In search of something light and easy to read, I worked my way through the first book. It was a nice learning opportunity.

The writing feels very much like something you'd read in the YA genre in English. The grammar is fairly simple, but there is some yakuwarigo -- old man, noble, maid, etc. The writing repeats the same key phrases very often, so unknown vocabulary is not much of a problem. This was kind of my first foray into fantasy, so I had a bit of a pain with some of the obscure vocab, but if you just skip over them then understanding the story should still be within your grasp. The characters and plot are very easy to understand, especially if you have experience with this kinda stuff. My one qualm with this is that the ebook version I read (which to be fair, I did not, uh, buy) had so many typos that looking up some of the more complicated kanji was impossible about half the time. Actually I noticed this in all the ebooks I've read, but this one was by far the worst one. I'm not sure if these issues exist in the print version or if there's a better ebook, though.

The story is basically just isekai Harry Potter with a tsundere. I think this was one of the first tsundere I ever saw so I guess a bit of nostalgia there. I don't think there's any other reason to return to this book though. It's not exceptional in any way, but it's not trying to be much more than pulpy wish fulfillment so you get what you pay for (nothing, in my case).

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