<Saving 80,000 Gold in another world for my retirement> Vol 8 -
Nice fluffy FUNA. Mitsuha really should grow a braincell and stop being manipulated left and right, here and there.

Dorothy’s Forbidden Grimoire WN 1 - 280 - This one I started reading last week. After the 200th chapter the quality really plummeted. There are a lot of repetitions. Almost every other paragraph is repeated in slightly different words. In the beginning the worldbuilding is good enough to distract from mediocre plot but when plot become repeating it was painful to read.

<Notorious No More: The Villainess Enjoys Feigning Incompetence> Vol 1 - dropped ⅓rd of the way. The MC is a narcissist and I hate her with passion. The secondary characters have only two modes of operation. They hate MC or they praise her. The MC is a douchebag to everyone around her and she tells the reader that she is right in doing so. There is a possibility of unreliable narrator but I just don’t want to read narcissistic POV. The world is confusing and hard to decipher.

<Saving 80,000 Gold in another world for my retirement - Volumes 02 to 04>

I have continued Saving 80000 gold. Still enjoying it.

My only problem is what happened to big bro? In the anime and first volume he was around a bit, now he has just disappeared. Mitsuha has completely forgotten about her family.

Now for the quotes!

Bookworm or Saving 80000 Gold?

At last, we’re going to start making paper! Western paper seemed like it would be more difficult to produce, so I’m starting with washi. You make washi by boiling, beating, and dissolving branches into a pulp, which is then sheeted, drained of water, and dried…I think. Whatever, I can just look up the details online!

~Saving 80000 Gold in another world for my retirement - Volume 02 - Chapter 24~

I’ll use a risograph service to print all the copies of the portraits. And no, that’s not a mistranslation of “lithograph.”

~Saving 80000 Gold in another world for my retirement - Volume 02 - Chapter 28~

Silver makes it into another series

It was an elegant white animal that the count had selected personally. He said that a white horse would suit her best, which made her blush.

I named the horse Silver, obviously. All right, time to go!

“Hi-yo, Silver! Away!”

~Saving 80000 Gold in another world for my retirement - Volume 02 - Chapter 28~

If life gives you lemons…. Make cat girls!

I guess it’s only in manga and novels that you find a young catgirl sitting at the counter. Bummer… Well, nothing for it. I’ll have to prepare the young catgirl myself.

~Saving 80000 Gold in another world for my retirement - Volume 03 - Chapter 32~

FUNA cant keep a story straight. I guess she probably had to learn English for school before she cheated… but it’s more fun to accuse FUNA of failing.

They’re both fast learners, though, and can already speak some broken English. I guess it was a good call giving them all those Gisney DVDs…? But I had to work my ass off in English class, damn it!

~Saving 80000 Gold in another world for my retirement - Volume 03 - Chapter 37~

“Excuse me.” She directed her words to the most intelligent-looking man there. She simply asked if the train would stop at the city where the military base was located, thanked him when he responded, and walked to the neighboring car. She then exited at the next stop and traveled back to her starting point. With that, Mitsuha gained the ability to speak, write, and understand English.

~Saving 80000 Gold in another world for my retirement - Volume 01 - Chapter 4~

<Isekai Walking>: Volume 3 - Long-awaited conclusion to a plotline that was set up in the very beginning fell flat. There was so much potential for a great moment there but they fumbled.

<EXP Is Golden>: Volume 3 - Unusually large volume with almost 400 pages. Which is surprising since there is relatively little actually happening plot-wise. As always, Leah conquers some dungeons, pisses off some more players, and adds another gameplay mechanic where it doesn’t belong - just the usual.