葬送のフリーレン 1

Frieren was great!

This is a fantasy novel thats very low on the fantasy vocabulary. If you've grown up watching anime you're probably all set! Such as words like 魔法(magic) and 魔法使い(magician) should all sound quite familiar to any isekai anime fans.

Because of the light magic system, you don't have to learn any complex mombo-jumbo AKA theres no 'fantasy-bable'

Grammar-wise, there's not much here that really sticks out, though Fern does talk a little more formally than I'm used to. なりに and だろうが were the two grammar points I did not recognize (I am N2 currently).

• The majority of the book is doable for someone at high N4 level, but there are some hard parts that you'd need to be at like N3-level to read without help.

The author's handwriting is very clean and easy to read! Much easier than CCS! The handwritten parts are essential parts of the reading experience so it's good the author has nice handwriting lol

It's quite fun to compare some of the scene in the manga to the anime so I would definitely recommend watching/reading both!

• I ran my own reading discussion club, for which you can watch the recordings for here. I was quite thankful to Wanikani's Vocab list, so I did not make my own vocab list for this book

I think the hardest part of this manga was reading Fern, Frieren, and Flamme in Japanese--The 3 names felt almost identical as フリーレン, フェルン, フランメ