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The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady Manga #4
The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady (Manga), Vol. 4
In slaying a dragon, Princess Anis received its curse—the transplantation of the dragon’s knowledge into her own mind. Now, in order to put the curse to use for “a certain goal,” Anis and the others must set off to find Anis’s old friend, a woman known for her cruel and inhumane ways…the abominable Marquise Tilty Claret.
162 pages, Paperback
First published August 26, 2022
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June 23, 2023
Now possessed of too much arcane knowledge, Anis consults with her good friend Tilty before things go sideways. Euphie gets sidelined, and then gets annoyed at being sidelined, but Anis already has her hands full with potential conspiracies and her dreaded mother.
Ah, this series is such fun. It’s one of the only isekai I look forward to reading consistently and that’s only partially due to it being a yuri, I swear. This time out we also get the introduction of the very fun Tilty Crenel, who knows all about the dangers of magic that Anis seems to enjoy handwaving away.
I really like the contrast between Anis and Tilty, where the former loves magic despite having none, but the latter despises it, despite having plenty (of a certain type). It’s a clever way to distinguish the two of them, as they’re still both wildly cut from mad scientist cloth, just different fabrics.
One of the nice features of the manga is that it’s filling in a lot of the gaps that were left by the anime. And the anime was rather good, but this is better in almost every single respect. Tilty’s backstory is especially harsh and I don’t believe we got it in the anime at all (thought it’s been a bit, so I may be wrong).
In addition to the fleshed out story, the art here is absolutely gorgeous. This is one of the best illustrated manga I’m reading right now, full of delightful character designs and some beautiful details. There are two fourth-wall breaking gags involving dialogue bubbles here that just work because of the effort behind them.
Euphie’s gone for most of this volume, so we don’t get quite enough of her wonderfully developing dynamic with Anis, which is a shame because the two of them are so great together. But Anis struggling to navigate her duties is a really good substitute.
We also get the introduction of Anis’ mother, who gets a lot more to do in this version, even if she’s not fundamentally different. It just has more space to breathe, so her threats to bring the pain on her delinquent daughter work better, as does her acknowledgment that Anis’ hunches are usually right.
Which neatly lets Anis loose to look into the whole situation with Lainie and why everybody seems to take her side in the argument between her and Euphie. And even knowing how this is going to play out, I like the way it’s presented here, with Anis doing some actual digging to see what’s going on.
Is it perfect? Nay, ‘tis not. It succumbs to one of the fundamental problems in light novel translation, as it can get too wordy for its own good doing exposition that wouldn’t have felt quite as badly paced in prose. I’ve read worse examples, but there are a couple points here where I wanted things to move along.
And as much as I love Anis as a character, her examination of Lainie at the end of the volume is a little too obvious a massive grope fest in the name of fan service. Given how solid everything was up to that point, it really rings extra sour as a note, but manga is going to manga.
But the real story here is about broken people with dreams and how they try to realize them or, in Euphie’s case, let themselves even have them to begin with. It’s a theme I’ve always enjoyed and this is so much better than most isekai in its presentation, largely because it ignores the isekai part pretty completely.
4 stars - little too wordy, little too handsy, but the rest of it is great. It’s always a treat getting a new volume to read and this time around was no different, doing well for itself even with our leads spending a long time apart.
Ah, this series is such fun. It’s one of the only isekai I look forward to reading consistently and that’s only partially due to it being a yuri, I swear. This time out we also get the introduction of the very fun Tilty Crenel, who knows all about the dangers of magic that Anis seems to enjoy handwaving away.
I really like the contrast between Anis and Tilty, where the former loves magic despite having none, but the latter despises it, despite having plenty (of a certain type). It’s a clever way to distinguish the two of them, as they’re still both wildly cut from mad scientist cloth, just different fabrics.
One of the nice features of the manga is that it’s filling in a lot of the gaps that were left by the anime. And the anime was rather good, but this is better in almost every single respect. Tilty’s backstory is especially harsh and I don’t believe we got it in the anime at all (thought it’s been a bit, so I may be wrong).
In addition to the fleshed out story, the art here is absolutely gorgeous. This is one of the best illustrated manga I’m reading right now, full of delightful character designs and some beautiful details. There are two fourth-wall breaking gags involving dialogue bubbles here that just work because of the effort behind them.
Euphie’s gone for most of this volume, so we don’t get quite enough of her wonderfully developing dynamic with Anis, which is a shame because the two of them are so great together. But Anis struggling to navigate her duties is a really good substitute.
We also get the introduction of Anis’ mother, who gets a lot more to do in this version, even if she’s not fundamentally different. It just has more space to breathe, so her threats to bring the pain on her delinquent daughter work better, as does her acknowledgment that Anis’ hunches are usually right.
Which neatly lets Anis loose to look into the whole situation with Lainie and why everybody seems to take her side in the argument between her and Euphie. And even knowing how this is going to play out, I like the way it’s presented here, with Anis doing some actual digging to see what’s going on.
Is it perfect? Nay, ‘tis not. It succumbs to one of the fundamental problems in light novel translation, as it can get too wordy for its own good doing exposition that wouldn’t have felt quite as badly paced in prose. I’ve read worse examples, but there are a couple points here where I wanted things to move along.
And as much as I love Anis as a character, her examination of Lainie at the end of the volume is a little too obvious a massive grope fest in the name of fan service. Given how solid everything was up to that point, it really rings extra sour as a note, but manga is going to manga.
But the real story here is about broken people with dreams and how they try to realize them or, in Euphie’s case, let themselves even have them to begin with. It’s a theme I’ve always enjoyed and this is so much better than most isekai in its presentation, largely because it ignores the isekai part pretty completely.
4 stars - little too wordy, little too handsy, but the rest of it is great. It’s always a treat getting a new volume to read and this time around was no different, doing well for itself even with our leads spending a long time apart.
April 5, 2024
Called it! I did!
September 18, 2024
The final volume adapting the first novel in the series. Still good, but has some outrageous art accidents including an accidental bobblehead man in the dramatic ballroom scene. Still a fine adaptation but I feel like they could have edited this down a bunch.
July 15, 2023
What I thought the whole issue was might not actually be the truth!!
What a twist!
What a twist!
December 10, 2023
Started off kind of boring, but got more interesting by the end of the volume.
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