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Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?! Light Novel #5
Didn't I Say To Make My Abilities Average In The Next Life?! Light Novel Vol. 5
When gifted student Kurihara Misato dies right after her high school graduation, she meets God and has a peculiar request: to make her abilities average in the next life. But few things–especially wishes–ever go quite as planned. As she navigates her new life as a ten-year-old girl in a magic-filled world, she realizes God has a unique definition of average!
233 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 15, 2017
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September 2, 2021
Filler.
It makes sense if you consider that light novels are generally serialised on the web before they get published. If you're writing a series of books which are essentially self-contained in themselves, you make sure there's something interesting in each volume. If you're writing a series of stories which will later be broken into books, you don't think the same way.
So, this volume is a filler episode which really doesn't advance anything and just keeps things ticking over until the next volume which is likely to have more substantive content. In fact, I'm sure it will, because the other sin this volume commits is to end on a cliffhanger.
Unfortunately, this is a book you need to get through to move on with the next one. It wasn't bad, it was amusing in more than a few places, but even where it advances side plots, it doesn't do it in a particularly entertaining way. It was okay. Hopefully it'll lead to something more interesting in volume 6.
It makes sense if you consider that light novels are generally serialised on the web before they get published. If you're writing a series of books which are essentially self-contained in themselves, you make sure there's something interesting in each volume. If you're writing a series of stories which will later be broken into books, you don't think the same way.
So, this volume is a filler episode which really doesn't advance anything and just keeps things ticking over until the next volume which is likely to have more substantive content. In fact, I'm sure it will, because the other sin this volume commits is to end on a cliffhanger.
Unfortunately, this is a book you need to get through to move on with the next one. It wasn't bad, it was amusing in more than a few places, but even where it advances side plots, it doesn't do it in a particularly entertaining way. It was okay. Hopefully it'll lead to something more interesting in volume 6.
February 5, 2019
A rather big letdown after the climax from the previous volume. Main story felt quite scattershot, as the girls go around travelling and saving random people and resolving local issues, which isn't too far apart from the earlier volumes but it's definitely not what I want.
The only good highlight of this volume is the heroine's reunion with her past friends and it feels like they are a much better set of sidekicks for her, so it's disappointing to see them left behind again.
The only good highlight of this volume is the heroine's reunion with her past friends and it feels like they are a much better set of sidekicks for her, so it's disappointing to see them left behind again.
December 4, 2019
It's such a fun series. This was mostly just little side stories. Nothing significant really happened. But they were all fun, so that's fine.
January 15, 2019
I waited for this volume for so long and am so disappointed, The story makes no real progress until the last few pages then ends abruptly on a cliff hanger and proceeds to a side story chapter, This volume also has various side stories mixed in at different parts that honestly no one cares about as they contribute nothing to the story to the point of barely even being able to be called filler and are just fluff to take up pages. I really like this story and want to read what happens as it advances but with the wait between issues and then issues that don't advance the story at all it makes me hesitant to continue. I will however give the series a little longer to pick up but you could probably skip this volume entirely and miss very little.
December 16, 2018
This series started out well. The premise is entertaining, and the initial volumes were charming. However, the author has written herself into a corner by allowing the characters' abilities to inflate. As of v.4, the protagonist can defeat elder dragons, and has magical super-user privileges, so there are no real challenges left except social ones. In v.5, the series makes the transition to situation comedy, which does not take advantage of the strengths of the series.
October 3, 2020
This volume felt like a collection of short stories, as the Crimson Bow takes the road so they can grow. Sadly they were not very well executed, as I don't think it was intended this way. The meeting of Mile and the Wonder Trio, that I was hoping for, kinda fell flat due to this wierd pacing. Even Mile was exasperated at the resolution of one of these stories. The ending was a cliffhanger, so I'm hoping for better in the next volume.
December 15, 2018
Sadly boring
My expectations were totally destroyed by this fourth book. It was messy and hard to follow the story. Hope it will get better in the next.
My expectations were totally destroyed by this fourth book. It was messy and hard to follow the story. Hope it will get better in the next.
December 29, 2018
Still loving the story
I am still interested in this story, Mile/Adele makes me laugh every time she says something outrageous as if it was the most natural thing in the world
I am still interested in this story, Mile/Adele makes me laugh every time she says something outrageous as if it was the most natural thing in the world
April 30, 2019
Another gut-buster, but I am starting to notice it meandering aimlessly now. I still enjoy it though and would still recommend it.
May 16, 2019
I'm still in.
December 22, 2019
Too much padding in this one.
Too much padding wita boring "bonus stories" in this volume and not enough of the main plotline. I for one found this annoying.
Too much padding wita boring "bonus stories" in this volume and not enough of the main plotline. I for one found this annoying.
April 12, 2021
The worst one of the series so far. Our lovely protagonists set out for high adventure! And don't find it.
May 12, 2023
Happy with the reunion between Mile and her old friends!
One downside of the series is that the info dumping can get unbearable at times. I find myself skipping over those parts.
One downside of the series is that the info dumping can get unbearable at times. I find myself skipping over those parts.
June 29, 2024
Nothing happens.
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December 29, 2018Be careful what you wish for in this magical comedy about the pitfalls of rebirth!
When she turns ten years old, Adele von Ascham is hit with a horrible headache--and memories of her previous life as an eighteen-year-old Japanese girl named Kurihara Misato. That life changed abruptly, however, when Misato died trying to aid a little girl and met god. During that meeting, she made an odd request and asked for average abilities in her next life. But few things--especially wishes--ever go quite as planned.
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