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9 reviews for:
Housekeeping Mage from Another World: Making Your Adventures Feel Like Home! Volume 1
You Fuguruma
3.57 AVERAGE
9 reviews for:
Housekeeping Mage from Another World: Making Your Adventures Feel Like Home! Volume 1
You Fuguruma
3.57 AVERAGE
This is a surprisingly different scenario for an isekai story. The idea of the protagonist ending up not having super powers that make her gain huge advantages is kind of unique. Also the budding romance between her and Alec has me rooting for them to end up together so they can heal one another. It will be interesting when inevitably she finds out the truth about their backgrounds. Sooner or later Alec (if he's still her love interest) will have to find out she's from another world. I'd like to believe he'd be fascinated by it.
Manga:
Housekeeping Mage From Another World (vol 1)
By
You Fuguruma
Tropes:
• Fantasy
• Adult Manga
• Romance
• Found family
• Lost in another world
• Isekai
• Older characters
Story Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
Overall Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Format: Kindle
Shoiri was a normal overwork, thirty-something office worker who fell through a portal and awoke to find herself in a strange world far from Japan.
Shoiri works hard in this new land to learn their language and find a place for herself.
Four years later later, Alec an A-rank adventure has just returned from a long hard assignment and hopes to get some time to recover before he is sent out on another mission. As so as he steps foot into the Guild his friend and Guild master give him another quest, to hunt a manticore.
Alec is resined to a miserable mission, and agrees to take the Guild’s “special weapon”
The titular “Housekeeping mage”
I highly recommended this manga, the story is easy to read and enjoyable, while the characters are fun and loveable ( especially Shoiri she is to precious and must be treasured at all costs! Not to mention she is a kind, smart and try her very best in every situation)
It was also a breath of fresh air that most of the characters are in their thirties.
Please do yourself a favour and get a copy of this manga
Housekeeping Mage From Another World (vol 1)
By
You Fuguruma
Tropes:
• Fantasy
• Adult Manga
• Romance
• Found family
• Lost in another world
• Isekai
• Older characters
Story Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
Overall Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Format: Kindle
Shoiri was a normal overwork, thirty-something office worker who fell through a portal and awoke to find herself in a strange world far from Japan.
Shoiri works hard in this new land to learn their language and find a place for herself.
Four years later later, Alec an A-rank adventure has just returned from a long hard assignment and hopes to get some time to recover before he is sent out on another mission. As so as he steps foot into the Guild his friend and Guild master give him another quest, to hunt a manticore.
Alec is resined to a miserable mission, and agrees to take the Guild’s “special weapon”
The titular “Housekeeping mage”
I highly recommended this manga, the story is easy to read and enjoyable, while the characters are fun and loveable ( especially Shoiri she is to precious and must be treasured at all costs! Not to mention she is a kind, smart and try her very best in every situation)
It was also a breath of fresh air that most of the characters are in their thirties.
Please do yourself a favour and get a copy of this manga
emotional
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The story consistently skips the action and events so it can focus on the emotional trauma of the characters. Lots of exposition and introspection.
adventurous
hopeful
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
DNF
I am giving this 3 stars, because I think it has an audience and they will enjoy it. This was not for me. Mostly because the ML lacked consent given by FL. Also, it feelts like the ML is the real main character and the FL just happens to be there. Personally, I find the romance forced and disappointing, but that's just how I feel.
Since other people have given this 5 stars, it is worth checking out if you want a mature isekai. Otherwise, I would suggest the manga series "The Savior's Book Cafe Story in Another World" which is really similar to this one, but with better storytelling and more charming characters.
I am giving this 3 stars, because I think it has an audience and they will enjoy it. This was not for me. Mostly because the ML lacked consent given by FL. Also, it feelts like the ML is the real main character and the FL just happens to be there. Personally, I find the romance forced and disappointing, but that's just how I feel.
Since other people have given this 5 stars, it is worth checking out if you want a mature isekai. Otherwise, I would suggest the manga series "The Savior's Book Cafe Story in Another World" which is really similar to this one, but with better storytelling and more charming characters.
emotional
hopeful
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
relaxing
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Yes
adventurous
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Let me first start off saying I can see how some people might find this book at least enjoyable, but this book just wasn't for me.
I'll get my biggest gripe with the book off my chest first. I have a bone to pick with you Alec: ASK FIRST!! The main male protagonist seems to think it's ok to kiss the girl he likes, multiple times, without asking her first.
He keeps kissing our main protagonist, a female named Shiori, without asking her first. In fact, she's only conscious for one of the times. The rest are after she's fallen asleep and he's felt emotional about something she's said previously or if he perceives that she's being supported by him in some way and he feels grateful that she'd feel that way. He hasn't even declared that he loves her, or that he even wants to be in a relationship with her. He's only said that he wants to be a place where she can belong and that she's become that place for him. That's not a declaration of love, or even a declaration of intent to court her (which he's only said to a male friend of his, not to the woman herself).
Shiori hasn't even told him if she's interested. Has she hinted to herself that she might be? Yes, but she's also been hesitant because of a past relationship and because he hasn't said he loves her so she's afraid of just being used and then discarded.
There is a plot...kinda. It feels like it's episodic, experimental chapters that are tied together loosely because there's a vague overarching plot and the same characters throughout. Kind of like a mediocre fanfiction where the author's like "I want to do this today" and then makes it happen with the smallest tie in with the plot to try and say it was somewhat planned.
Now, I don't know if this is the fault of the translator, or if it's the author, but there's a lot of repeated descriptors within a chapter. It seems like once the author found a descriptor that fit a situation or a person it was tried out a bit within the chapter. A "madder" sky is one that stuck with me. There's also her describing Shiori as the gentle and demure, stereotypical Japanese woman. I don't mind reading that type of character, but knowing that it's the Japanese society's "ideal" woman makes me feel like the characterization is a bit forced to me, especially since Shiori is in her 30s. I have yet to get to know the real Shiori, and instead just know the image Shiori has built around her.
I'll get my biggest gripe with the book off my chest first. I have a bone to pick with you Alec: ASK FIRST!! The main male protagonist seems to think it's ok to kiss the girl he likes, multiple times, without asking her first.
Shiori hasn't even told him if she's interested. Has she hinted to herself that she might be? Yes, but she's also been hesitant because of a past relationship and because he hasn't said he loves her so she's afraid of just being used and then discarded.
There is a plot...kinda. It feels like it's episodic, experimental chapters that are tied together loosely because there's a vague overarching plot and the same characters throughout. Kind of like a mediocre fanfiction where the author's like "I want to do this today" and then makes it happen with the smallest tie in with the plot to try and say it was somewhat planned.
Now, I don't know if this is the fault of the translator, or if it's the author, but there's a lot of repeated descriptors within a chapter. It seems like once the author found a descriptor that fit a situation or a person it was tried out a bit within the chapter. A "madder" sky is one that stuck with me. There's also her describing Shiori as the gentle and demure, stereotypical Japanese woman. I don't mind reading that type of character, but knowing that it's the Japanese society's "ideal" woman makes me feel like the characterization is a bit forced to me, especially since Shiori is in her 30s. I have yet to get to know the real Shiori, and instead just know the image Shiori has built around her.