February 29, 2024

I really enjoyed the worldbuilding and the mysteries around the librarian and Kibi the maid here and would like to see more of it!

The first chapter is definitely the easiest one here, as Kibi's dialogue is not especially hard for the most part. A couple of times she uses words/characters that are difficult to look up, because they are from Chinese, in line with the setting's inspiration, but these are explained through the context or margin notes. However, in later chapters, other characters are introduced who speak in high-level court dialect, and these characters also use more Chinese words, which are for the most part not explained and didn't appear in the Japanese dictionary I use. I haven't read any Japanese works in this kind of fantasy-China-court setting before, so I found some of it hard-going, although the story was intriguing enough that this didn't turn me off.

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