Zero kara Hajimeru Mahou no Sho

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Well, if you want a fantasy adventure with dark tones and likeable characters, this is a must read. The first 10 volumes are the main story, the last volume (11) is 1/2 epilogue and 1/2 side-stories, so it pretty nicely wrapped up. The plot has twists, the dialogues are really engaging, it has fked up scenes (dark/gory stuff), funny scenes, the magic/sorcery system was interesting, action and a decent world building. The art was nice, and it had a good amount of illustrations.

The anime covers only the first volume, I still would recommend reading at least the last chapter of the first volume. You may ... even skip it, I don't think that is a deal breaker.

I think that the most crucial part of this story is liking the characters, I did. The main duo is one of the best I have ever seen and I loved the dialogues between them and how they slowly changed with every chapter. There is a lot of development in general, not just them. It makes you even care for the side characters.

Romance is not the focus but it's present and there is progress.

One difference between LN and anime is that for the most part, the story is told from the point of view of the mercenary and what he is thinking. This gave a different feeling than the anime.

I just finished reading it and I hope this review helps you decide whether to give the book a chance or not :P
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Story ★★★★ - A good story, with a world-building that I felt the need to see more of this world, I found the end very abrupt, and that it was slightly rushed at the end, the Magic itself I found the concept and how interesting is used in the work.
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Character ★★★★ - There are several characters in the work, some do not need development, they serve to move the story along, as much as I like the interaction between Mercenary and Zero, I ... thought he lacked a little development, it was dense until the end work without any need, unlike other works in which the dense character is boring, bordering on unbearable, the Author managed to make him not be those boring MC's that make you want to drop the work, in relation to other characters like Padre and Lily para It was great for me to see their interaction, and especially the development of Father, Lily and some other characters, however small their development was.
When I complain about the development of Mercenary, it's about his relationship with Zero in the sense of "romance", even at the time the Author put this, that their "loving" interaction had been properly developed, because without that Zero could be a man, and it wouldn't have any problem to work.
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Art ★★★★☆ - 9/10, Zero has the body of a girl from whatever... 13 years old? In certain covers, it is completely out of tune with the art within the work.
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Enjoyment ★★★ - Precisely because I think the ending was abrupt and we missed seeing more of this world, that's why I give a 6/10 here, interaction with other parts of the world, meeting the other Judges of Dea Ignis, other witches, there was potential in that , and I don't say that the author threw it away, he simply put it aside, or saw no need for it. That's why for me the ending was "slightly" rushed.
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General ★★★☆ - 7/10, I think it's fair, even more that volume 11 I didn't like, half of the volume with side stores that could have been calmly put in the point it was in the work, of course starting from the point that the Author he already had the story assembled in his head from the beginning, or simply, if he had continued the Epilogue given a more closed ending, half of the last volume the stories there were very thrown, in other words too random for the last volume.
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If you read this review thank you very much and may God bless you!