Die Büroangestellte Azusa Aizawa arbeitet sich schon im Alter von 27 Jahren im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes zu Tode. Doch dann erhält sie eine zweite Chance: Sie wird als unsterbliche siebzehnjährige Hexe in einer fremden Welt wiedergeboren. Dort will sie es langsam angehen und vor allem keinen Stress mehr haben. Nur ab und an stellt sie sich im Kampf den schwächsten aller möglichen Gegner: den Schleimen. Nach 300 Jahren hat sie dann aber so viele Schleime getötet, dass ihre Erfahrung ins Unermessliche gewachsen ist. Nun ist sie eine der mächtigsten Hexen ihrer Welt. Und das bringt plötzlich neuen Stress mit sich …
This was sooo cute! (*´꒳`*) The logic behind everything actually works a lot of the time! Love the chibi art style. This might be GL, by the way they’re setting things up. I’m not for sure tho.
After having been overworked to death in her past life, reborn witch Azusa swears to live life moderately from now on! Now an immortal witch, Azusa has settled into a happy routine. Killing slimes every day for exercise, sleeping as much as she wants and waking up when she wants, and having no need to spare a single worry for earthly needs. But as 300 year years have steadily passed by, Azusa has suddenly maxed out her level?!
I enjoy how this manga pushes forth the idea that with moderation in all things, by maintaining due diligence in the things you want to do or things you enjoy, you can achieve greater results than those who slip into overwork. For example, Azusa and Laika have lived in this world for the same amount of time and yet Azusa is so far above her that she’s Laika’s master. Slow and steady truly does win the race, and it brings the most happiness and fulfillment as well. Life isn’t about the results, it’s about how you live each day.
I love it so much 🥰 honestly 300 years of this kind of life sounds good to me. Next thing is to find the slimes to kill 🫡 see you once I make progress 🔪🍮
Add another notch for a great find at my local library.
After working herself to death in a prior life, Azusa wants a laid-back and lazy life in her next one. Another story would dangle this goal like a carrot in front of her to make for a dramatic and tension fueled story. This one does exactly the opposite, which is fun and relaxing comedy. Indeed, this is a great example of a slice-of-life story.
This is for the manga version by the way, not the original light novel.
This story explores new ground in the Reincarnated-Isekai genre (from my experience at least). There is no grand adventure awaiting Azua when she reincarnates, as is the case in many Isekai stories. But neither does the story go into a deconstruction by showing her have similar real-life problems in her second life as she did in her fish, and it doesn't go into a dark-and-edgy angle either. Azusa literally spends 300 years killing slimes, gardening, and making medicine for a local village. She might have continued doing that forever if she didn't discover, on a whim, that she had become an almighty witch simply from killing slimes.
See, this world works on RPG Mechanics. Killing monsters grants experience points, which increase one's level, which improves stats such as magical power. Azusa requests "immortality" as a reincarnation bonus, so she reaches the level cap simply by killing the weakest of all monsters every day for three centuries. This makes her a celebrity, and people seek her out once word of her maxed level gets out, from those seeking to test their strength against the best to those who want to learn from the best.
So the entire conflict of the story is Azua trying to preserve the laid-back and lazy life of obscurity she enjoyed for three hundred years (by the way, Living Forever is Awesome).
One such manifestation of this conflict is the group of adventurers that seek her out to challenge her, dojo-style. First she tries to dissuade them by making up a sad story about how she got drunk on her own power in the past and killed people and so she has sworn off fighting, when the truth is she hasn't fought or killed anything other than slimes. It sounds like a parody of a sincerely tragic atoner story, and the adventurers totally buy it.
At the same time, this story is not quite a Status-Que-Is-God sort of story. It definitely has a progression to it, and Azua's life has definitely changed by the end of the volume, because killing slimes for three hundred years has not been entirely consequence free.
Trickster Eric Novels gives "I've been killing slimes for three hundred years and maxed out my level" manga volume 1 an A+
After Asuza passes away as a young single adult from overworking herself to death, a magical being from the afterlife takes pity on the girl and allows her to decide who she'll be and where she'll live in her next life. Asuza asks to look beautiful, be immortal, and have a boring, lazy existence. For 300 years, the "new and improved" Asuza lives in a strange video-game fantasy world in a little farmhouse outside of her town. Each day she kills just one little slime, but after 300 years of doing it every day, she's the most powerful magician around. Asuza wants nothing more than to be left alone, but now she's being sought out and challenged by powerful magicians and adventurers who've discovered her unbeatable skill. Will she ever be able to live her lazy, unbothered lifestyle again?
This book was absolutely ridiculous and its plot was paper thin. While characters were cute, they had no depth. Unfortunately, I won't be reading any more of this series.
I simply love the protagonists. So cute. They'd make a cute couple, if Laika wasn't actually a dragon lol. Cute twins too. I see good & interesting things coming down the pile. I wonder what the Flying Fickle Finger of Fate has in store for the girls? I can't wait to see. Sock it to me! Art, very good. Dialogue, a little odd at times, but decent overall. Characters, believable, likeable, & adorable.
Azusa darf wieder geboren werden und wünscht sich ein ruhiges Leben. Sie wird in eine fantastische Welt geschickt, in der sie eine Hexe ist. Sie lebt 300 Jahre vor sich hin und tötet täglich Schleim, um ihren Lebensunterhalt zu bestreiten. Nach 300 Jahren misst jemand ihren Status und stellt fest, dass sie das höchstmögliche Level erreicht hat. Damit fangen die Probleme an und das ruhige Leben ist vorbei.
Good: It's cute and fun. It's definitely a great escape fantasy, and the minor characters and additional main characters are all funny and adorable. Bad: There are a few typos and a printing mistake; the last chapter felt rushed.
You'll like this if you like laid back isekai and Kobayashi's Dragon Maid
Reincarnated as an immortal witch, Azusa spends 300 years taking it easy and killing slimes
2.5 stars While I love isekai stories, this one is a bit too cutesy for me. I liked the part where Azusa lived in a nice isolated home and puttered about. By the end of this first volume she had gained an apprentice and two relations and 'realized' that she needed more company.
Cute, fun, a good read for in between. I've got this on a whim after a stressful day of work and finished it the same evening. Felt much lighter after, it was enjoyable to read and the artwork was nice. Nothing to deep or memorable, but great for a quick check out of reality.
It's cute and funny. The main character is very appealing: she's not as lazy as she says she is and she has a softer heart than I think she'd admit to. Watching her reluctantly grow and build a family is fun.
Taking it easy and indulging are some of the great benefits of a life of immortality. However, life moves pretty fast and before you know it you have a few kids and a dragon apprentice. To all those folks that spent hours/days killing Cactuar to get that gil, this is the book for you.
This covered the first 4 chapters of the light novel. It was good, things were definitely condensed from the light novel but it still translated well and I liked the artwork. It was a fun story and I am enjoying the series so far.
This was okay but I don't think I'll read further. The ecchi art with teens and even preteens (even or especially as they are technically way older), the humor that's not exactly my cup of tea, the foreshadowing of a harem – none of that makes me want more of it.
Yet another "reincarnated into a video game" story, but the "all-powerful but want to live a lazy life" twist was fun and amusing. Will definitely be interested in reading more.