FLESH & BLOOD 1

A time-travel pirate BL adventure

I'd been wanting to read this book for a while, and I'm super glad I was finally able to do so. Flesh & Blood is a long-running series staring Kaito, a young Japanese man living in England who's suddenly sucked through a crack in time and lands in Elizabethan England. He's picked up by a local pirate crew, and will presumably have many pirate-y adventures (gotta read more volumes to see~). While this is billed as a BL (boys love - romance between two men) series, there's not a whole lot shown yet in this first volume, so those interested will need to read on.

As expected of a book taking place in the late 16th century, there's quite a bit of historical and political vocabulary thrown around, as well as more formal sonkeigo sprinkled in where appropriate. Grammar-wise I would say the book lands somewhere in the lower N2 range. That, coupled with long chapters, means that while I definitely recommend the book in general, I would really only recommend it to those who are already advanced learners or don't mind taking the extra time to make sure you understand everything going on.

As an extra note, there are slight differences between the physical and digital versions of of book one: the digital edition loses the illustrations present in the physical version, but contains an extra side-story type chapter (titled 予感).