Sleeps In Sunbeams's manga / #Fantasy(156)

This was different for a reincarnation type story. The FL travels to the Edo period following an accident and becomes a prostitute in the red light district. There she meets and falls for a hairdresser, but relationships are forbidden. I found the story lacked in a few areas for me. Firstly, she had been a prostitute for more than half a year but still acted like a shy virgin with Shouhei, all blushes and embarrassment. I doubt that one of the most in demand courtesans in the red light district would be like that after a week, let alone months. Also, the phone with the battery life of a year (we should all be so blessed). Not one I would re read, but it was ok.

A short story that was a nice, easy read. With intrigue, royalty, knights and a dragon all it needed was a little more romance (a kiss isn’t too much to ask for is it?) to be properly satisfying.

Trigger Warning: Rape As a long time lover of RPG games, I appreciate the effort to create a story in a RPG world. In this one though, we join the elf wizard Phil, and human hero warrior Takamasa, at the end of their main quest. They are now continuing to travel the world together in search of elves and for reasons that made no sense Phil would occasionally force himself on Takamasa and then wipe his memories. Sure, Phil believed that Takamasa loved the princess, but I don’t believe that the rapes were given any rationale. Firstly, because Phil showed no deep attachment to Takamasa beyond the friendship of a child who has grown up in his company (at least not during the beginning when the rapes happened). Secondly, elves didn’t even mate in the human way but through a mind connection. It just didn’t make sense! Obviously, by the end of the story there was more of a feeling of them being a couple, but it was through Takamas’s efforts, not Phil’s. Apart from that glaring story flaw, I liked the 2 travelling and adventuring together as a couple and the art was really quite pretty. I would probably read it again simply for the fantasy adventure feeling of the story, I just wish that if rape was going to be used for plot development that the one initiating it was shown to be going through some mental or emotional conflict but driven by overwhelming emotions or at least be a race that had sex.. o(>.<)o

A fun story about 17yo school girl Lin Xiaoqi who gets summoned to a distant world with three of her classmates. One of them is the expected reincarnation of the daughter of the Phoenix God who will make a wish to benefit the nation. However, Lin Xiaoqi becomes separated from her friends immediately and is helped by the servant of the third prince, Ye Li to reunite. The FL here is bubbly, energetic and full of commonsense and practicality. She doesn’t always wait for rescue and is brave enough to strike out on her own and take charge of her destiny. I really enjoyed her optimistic enthusiasm and her relationship with the deadly and intensely loyal Ye Li. The first half of the story was Lin Xiaoqi and Ye Li’s romance and adventures and the second half was of some of their predecessors, including the first daughter of the Phoenix God and the human she loved. The fact that the souls of their forebears were recognisably tied to their current souls (reincarnated) was icing on the cake for the first half of the story. These guys were a fated pair of destined lovers who were forever drawn to each other. Totally irresistible.

This fairy tale of a story was adorable. It had a rather evil winter magician with a frozen heart named Larmanilla, a human named Romeade fulfilling his dying mother’s wish to travel to the winter magicians castle, tiny fox butlers and servants, a savagely giant guard dog, and a magical golden apple tree. When Romeade came to the castle he became the chef and spent the next 5 years working for the temperamental Larmanilla. His trustworthy heart and warm meals gradually endeared him to the magician, and the story followed their budding romance through some unexpected twists and turns. The story was slow paced yet actually packed a lot in at the same time. There were morals along the way (like any good fairy tale) such as the high cost of greed and spots of dark humour and ruthless actions that added some texture to the fluffiness of the story. It was definitely a story I enjoyed.

A light and easy to read story about a magical princess locked in a tower and her animal companions. The story flowed quickly with a fairy tale like introduction to set the scene and then a quest to save the naive and gentle princess and the world from evil. Best suited to younger audiences this was cute yet predictable. Not bad if you want a break from anything serious.

This was a great version of Alice in Wonderland but it leaves a lot of questions because key events preceding going down the rabbit hole are omitted and there is little explanation within the story about characters and their importance. Still, it gave an awesome setting and still felt bewildering and chaotic in that true Lewis Carroll style. There is sadness knowing Alice is escaping the tragic loss of her family, especially her most loved sister to illness. It’s also sad to know Blood’s backstory and what happened to his sister. In some ways he has the most in common with Alice and I was happy that he ended up with her. He was the most real of the characters and personally I liked him.

A cute story that was let down a little by the poor grammar of the translation, especially in the beginning. It often read like a foreigner was speaking English without modals, articles and with general confusion . It made it a bit of a slog to read and there were some downright odd translations (eg the ‘wandering Jew’ bit; wth was that about so randomly inserted towards the end). The story with FL Airi Hoshina and the Prince Aram was sweet because of his faithful and heartfelt love but when he got young it felt awkward (especially on the art page of the Royal family where Aram was 4yo looking exactly as he does in the story). Added to that, Airi was likeable, a touch klutzy and a total romantic who never gave up on her special guy. Overall, a story worth reading despite the translation woes.

Very sweet and full of yearning, this story grabbed my emotions and scattered them in a mess that had me in tears yet happy at the same time. Each meeting in heaven between the shepherd and the hero was precious, coming at the cost of life for the hero yet savoured and uniquely theirs. I loved the emotional intensity that came with the simplicity of the story, and the genuine feelings of love between the MCs. Fluffy, feel good, beautiful but with a touch of loneliness.

Trigger Warning: Rape Despite the non consent scene, this was a cute story. The forced sex was understandable as a part of the influence of the moon upon a wolf, and Hati was genuinely remorseful when in his right mind. The story itself was about an innocent little cat Misha, who needed help restoring a home in the forest. When she met the burly dog Hati, they came to an arrangement of shared home and shared effort. What follows is a slow paced but cute journey to love that overcomes interspecies misunderstandings and stigma and what it takes to become a loving family.