Chapter - Journey of the Empire 3 Dec Chapter - Journey of the Empire 2 Dec Chapter - Journey of the Empire 1 Dec Chapter - Business 3 Dec Chapter - Business 2 Dec Chapter - Business 1 Dec Chapter - The Empire is very strong 5 Dec Chapter - The Empire is very strong 4 Dec Chapter - The Empire is very strong 3 Dec Chapter - The Empire is very strong 2 Dec Chapter - The Empire is very strong 1 Dec Chapter - Holidays 2 Dec Chapter - Holidays 1 Dec Chapter - Departure Strategy 7 Dec Chapter - Departure Strategy 6 Dec Chapter - Departure Strategy 5 Dec Chapter - Departure Strategy 4 Dec Chapter - Departure Strategy 3 Dec Chapter - Departure Strategy 2 Dec Chapter - Departure Strategy 1 Dec Chapter - Return Home Dec Chapter - What was created, what should be protected 2 Dec Chapter - What was created, what should be protected 1 Dec Chapter - What Lies in the Mountain 9 Dec Chapter - What Lies in the Mountain 8 Dec Chapter - What Lies in the Mountain 7 Dec Chapter - What Lies in the Mountain 6 Dec Chapter - What Lies in the Mountain 5 Dec Chapter - What Lies in the Mountain 4 Dec Chapter - What Lies in the Mountain 3 Dec Chapter - What Lies in the Mountain 2 Dec Chapter - What Lies in the Mountain 1 Dec Chapter - Troublesome Hoi Hoi 6 Dec Chapter - Troublesome Hoi Hoi 5 Dec Chapter - Troublesome Hoi Hoi 4 Dec Chapter - Troublesome Hoi Hoi 3 Dec Chapter - Troublesome Hoi Hoi 2 Dec Chapter - Troublesome Hoi Hoi 1 Dec Chapter - Earth-Dragon Subjugation 5 Dec Chapter - Earth-Dragon Subjugation 4 Dec Chapter - Earth-Dragon Subjugation 3 Dec Chapter - Earth-Dragon Subjugation 2 Dec Chapter - Earth-Dragon Subjugation 1 Dec Chapter Chapter - Luxury Inn Dec Chapter - The girl with the arm worths gold coins Dec Chapter - Death Struggle 4 Dec Chapter - Death Struggle 3 Dec Chapter - Death Struggle 2 Dec Chapter - Cliff Hanger 3 vs 4 Dec Chapter - Tristo Kingdom Dec Chapter - Another month… Dec Chapter - At the tent Dec Chapter - I failed Dec Chapter - Parting Dec Chapter - Radiance of Life 6 Dec Chapter - Radiance of Life 5 Dec Chapter - Radiance of Life 4 Dec Chapter - Radiant of Life 3 Dec Chapter - Radiance of Life 2 Dec Chapter - Radiance of Life 1 Dec Chapter - Strengthening Training 5 Dec Chapter - Strengthening Training 4 Dec Chapter - Strengthening Training 3 Dec Chapter - Strengthening Training 2 Dec Chapter - Strengthening Training 1 Dec Chapter - Finished Dec Chapter - Warning Dec Chapter - King Palace Dec Chapter - Survey Dec Chapter - Match Up Dec Chapter - Move 3 Dec When gifted student Kurihara Misato dies right after her high school graduation, she meets God and has a peculiar request: to make her abilities average in the next life.
But few things--especially wishes--ever go quite as planned. As she navigates her new life as a ten-year-old girl in a magic-filled world, she realizes God has a uniqu The Adventure of a Lifetime As she navigates her new life as a ten-year-old girl in a magic-filled world, she realizes God has a unique definition of average! Get A Copy. Kindle Edition , pages.
More Details Light Novels 1. Other Editions 4. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. In Japan, Kurihara Misato was a prodigy, good at everything she tried Although she was never bullied, she could never seem to get close to anyone.
Then, when she was 18, she was killed saving a child from being hit by a car. After her death, she appeared before a young man who called himself "God," who wished to thank her for saving the child by having her reborn in a new world with whatever abilities she desired. Misato's wish surprises him: she wants her abilities to b In Japan, Kurihara Misato was a prodigy, good at everything she tried Misato's wish surprises him: she wants her abilities to be average.
And so she is reborn as Adele von Ascham, daughter of Viscount Ascham, her station in life exactly halfway between the lowest and highest possible. It seems that God misunderstood her request to be "average. This puts Adele in a bit of a bind. How is she supposed to come across as average if she's actually ridiculously powerful? This particular volume covers her new life from age 10 to 12, beginning at Eckland Academy, a school for lesser nobles and talented commoners, and continuing on to her work as a newbie hunter basically, an adventurer.
The heroine goes by three names throughout this book: Misato her life in Japan, which we see very little of , Adele her life at Eckland , and Mile when she becomes a hunter.
I plan to mostly refer to her as Adele to keep this review from becoming too confusing. And yes, this is one of those very rare light novels that's actually written in the third person. I've seen reviews that complain that Adele is a Mary Sue, and considering the premise, I'm not sure what else they expected. I mean, that's the entire point of this series. God misinterpreted Adele's request, and as a result she was reborn ridiculously overpowered. However, unlike Touya, she actually had a goal in life, and her powers interfered with that goal.
Or so she thought. I really hope that, at some point, Adele realizes that what she actually wants is friends and that the ones she's managed to find so far won't necessarily turn away from her once they realize just how overpowered she is. I was torn on the way FUNA handled the book's friendship aspects. On the one hand, I liked that there was so much deliberate focus on female friendship.
Adele acquired groups of close friends at both Eckland and the Hunters' Prep School, and her method of bonding with them tended to involve teaching them useful magical skills based on her secret knowledge of how the world's "magic" really worked.
It was nice. On the other hand, the various friendships felt oddly superficial possibly because the characters weren't all that well-developed? Breast size literally played a part in the start of one of Adele's friendships the girl made friends with her because Adele's flat chest made her chest look less flat by comparison.
My favorite things about this book were the humor Adele was truly terrible at pretending to be average, and the results were usually entertaining and the way Adele politely but unflinchingly put rude people in their place. The classmate who assumed she'd be his girlfriend just because he said he liked her, the guy who shouted questions at her like she owed him answers, the other classmate who repeatedly challenged her to fights because his pride was hurt by the fact that she was better than him.
It was fun watching her deal with all of them. Unfortunately, this had a lot of the same problems that many other light novel series have, and although I plan on reading the next volume, I suspect I'm going to burn out on this series fairly quickly.
Most of the characters aren't that interesting, and although the premise resulted in some fun moments in this first volume, it won't be able to carry a whole series.
Also, the writing was a bit dry and had a tendency to dwell on details that weren't important to the story and didn't add much to the setting. In fact, after the initial infodumping about how this world worked, there wasn't much real world-building at all - other than occasional interjections from the nanomachines, this world looked and acted like most other generic isekai fantasy worlds. FUNA could potentially do some interesting things with this world, which was created by God as sort of an experiment and then abandoned, but my overall experience with light novels tells me that I probably shouldn't hold my breath.
Extras: Three full-color illustrations, two of which are double page spreads, black-and-white illustrations throughout, a couple extra sketches at the end, an afterword by the author, and three bonus stories. The first bonus story is all about Adele's underwear woes. In the second bonus story, Adele attempts to invent natto, which resulted in me realizing that this is one of the few light novels where the main character doesn't introduce some sort of food, game, item, etc.
In the third story, one of Adele's classmates declares that he's going to make her his woman. Adele is not nearly as happy about this as he'd expected her to be. View all 4 comments. Feb 03, Walter rated it it was amazing. Couldnt put it down. It was truly well written. It was warm hearted and just a true joy to read.
My smile never left me the entire time. Feb 13, Melissa rated it really liked it Shelves: light-novel , isekai , reincarnation , female-protagonist. I am very much enjoying the rush of light novels about reincarnation that are coming out in the USA. I found this character fun: though a bit too clueless to be believed. There were some times where I was just left like But the worldbuilding is sound, the lead is likeable, there is enough going on to keep me interested.
So, I guess I can't wait till summer when I can read the next book. View 2 comments. Shelves: abilaverage. A good comedy about an overpowered little girl who didn't want to be viewed as such. With the many things I was reading along with it, there were times when I confused the story with novels having similar vibe like Kenshi Mahou but I'm happy to say that in time, it did leave its unique mark.
Reading the novel was not stressful at all, some minor characters get their own flash backs and the scenes are funny too. Nonetheless, the book didn't lack in action — despite it looking like a slice-of-life LN. Seven Seas' translations wasn't too far from the Japanese version and I think they did a really great job localizing the book. An "average story of an average, everyday girl", this is rather un-serious book about the life of our heroine, who is basically a Mary Sue in all but her own mind.
Her attempts to appear as a common, average girl keeps falling flat and basically forms the entire concept of the series and most of its humour. What makes this a decent read is multiple POV's the author uses to convey the ridiculousness of our heroine's tragically doomed attempts at 'normalcy', which helps to make the absurdness stan An "average story of an average, everyday girl", this is rather un-serious book about the life of our heroine, who is basically a Mary Sue in all but her own mind.
What makes this a decent read is multiple POV's the author uses to convey the ridiculousness of our heroine's tragically doomed attempts at 'normalcy', which helps to make the absurdness stand out better. That said, whether due to the original author's style or the translation team's choice, the prose here is really unwieldy and dry at many points, so this is definitely not a book that would really impress. Nevertheless, it does somehow end up being a fun read, purely on the basis of the situational absurdity and comedy, so I ended up liking it anyways.
Feb 22, Betty Gilliland rated it did not like it. Pages missing Just barely got into the book, and several pages are blank - not there at all.
I want my money back! View 1 comment. Feb 11, Terrence rated it really liked it Shelves: isekai , light-novel-jp-novel. Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shug Ranked 20 Popularity Members 16, Visit MALxJapan. More characters. Mar 20, Overall Rating : 5. Overall 5 Story 5 Art 5 Character 5 Enjoyment 5. Feb 3, Overall Rating : Overall 10 Story 10 Art 8 Character 10 Enjoyment Feb 5, Aug 19, Overall 10 Story 10 Art 10 Character 10 Enjoyment Have a question?
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