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I'm a Noble on the Brink of Ruin, So I Might as Well Try Mastering Magic (Manga) #1
I'm a Noble on the Brink of Ruin, So I Might as Well Try Mastering Magic (Manga): Volume 1
Liam Hamilton is not who you think. On the surface Liam is the son of a failing noble family, but on the inside…he’s actually a lowly peasant?! One night he’s a miserable middle-aged commoner chugging cold beers at the local tavern and the next day he suddenly wakes up as the youngest son of a noble count?! Make it make sense! Liam Hamilton has no idea how he ended up this way, but he does know one thing for as a noble he can finally try learning magic like he’s always dreamed of! Too bad the noble house he’s been reborn into is on the verge of collapse–that is–unless they prove themselves worthy of high society. When Liam discovers he has a natural affinity for magic, can he save his doomed house or will he go back to being just another lowly commoner?
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January 18, 2025
I'm going to be honest. I dug this up because I wanted to complain about the anime, which got all of two episodes in before breaking out the in the name of "experimentation."
Immediately removed from my watchlist. I'm just kind of done with "guy has slaves EVEN THOUGH he treats them well" stuff. And it's ALWAYS a guy. (Would it help if a lady had slaves? ...not really, but it would be DIFFERENT.)
Mind you, I've not quite gotten mad at it enough to the point of dubbing it literal trash, mostly because
- I kind of like the "prime numbers of magic" system
- in powering through the "classic isekai" setup to get to the "good" parts, it has *to the point where I got to* NOT had any rape/sexual harassment of women (or accusations thereof)
- "Liam" just wants to not be in the crosshairs of his insecure eldest brother and free of the whole "noble" drama
- actually, the "nobles get demoted to commoners after three generations without accomplishment" system is pretty good (except when it means Liam's dad does what he did)
...so, I'm mostly just... disappointed that it has to stoop to starting the harem with SLAVES. Just couldn't resist, huh? Especially when they're SO EAGER to let him have his way with them ANYWAY! So eager to get there that they didn't even show Liam's past life and only even suggest he was reincarnated from a modern time in that he recreates instant ramen to sell, which he would have been unlikely to think of if he had been reincarnated from the same world/time period.
But this has none of the real "hooks" of other overpowered character isekai stories; Liam's so forgettable that I had to keep looking up what the title even was when I was searching for this book (and had to end up finding the e-book), and the prime number thing is all I remembered otherwise. Well, other than the "not-slave but actually slave" part. So, two stars because I'm going to die mad about it.
Well, no, I'm going to forget the whole thing in a week—I'll die mad about the misrepresentation of geishas. Anyway, I can't in good conscience recommend this, but IF MATH AND SLAVES ARE YOUR JAM, THEN BY ALL MEANS CHECK THIS OUT I guess!
Immediately removed from my watchlist. I'm just kind of done with "guy has slaves EVEN THOUGH he treats them well" stuff. And it's ALWAYS a guy. (Would it help if a lady had slaves? ...not really, but it would be DIFFERENT.)
Mind you, I've not quite gotten mad at it enough to the point of dubbing it literal trash, mostly because
- I kind of like the "prime numbers of magic" system
- in powering through the "classic isekai" setup to get to the "good" parts, it has *to the point where I got to* NOT had any rape/sexual harassment of women (or accusations thereof)
- "Liam" just wants to not be in the crosshairs of his insecure eldest brother and free of the whole "noble" drama
- actually, the "nobles get demoted to commoners after three generations without accomplishment" system is pretty good (except when it means Liam's dad does what he did)
...so, I'm mostly just... disappointed that it has to stoop to starting the harem with SLAVES. Just couldn't resist, huh? Especially when they're SO EAGER to let him have his way with them ANYWAY! So eager to get there that they didn't even show Liam's past life and only even suggest he was reincarnated from a modern time in that he recreates instant ramen to sell, which he would have been unlikely to think of if he had been reincarnated from the same world/time period.
But this has none of the real "hooks" of other overpowered character isekai stories; Liam's so forgettable that I had to keep looking up what the title even was when I was searching for this book (and had to end up finding the e-book), and the prime number thing is all I remembered otherwise. Well, other than the "not-slave but actually slave" part. So, two stars because I'm going to die mad about it.
Well, no, I'm going to forget the whole thing in a week—I'll die mad about the misrepresentation of geishas. Anyway, I can't in good conscience recommend this, but IF MATH AND SLAVES ARE YOUR JAM, THEN BY ALL MEANS CHECK THIS OUT I guess!
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