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This review is based on the official NA translation of the first and second volumes and will be updated as I continue to read.

Story: 10
First of all, it was extremely refreshing to see the isekai genre take on this type of story. It's a simple story of confused teenagers thrust into an unknown world without prior knowledge of who they once were. The main reason I enjoyed the story of the first two volumes was specifically because of them not knowing what to do. Seeing them grow through trail and error in a vast and unforgiving world made for a surprisingly emotional story.

Character: 10
Another aspect ... that I absolutely loved were the characters. Each and every one of them had multiple layers(much like onions). They all had personalities unique to them, I could even tell in an instant who was talking because of their distinct speech pattern. A character that stood out the most for me was Ranta, at first (especially in the beginning of the second volume), he was the most annoying person in the entire book, at times I actually wanted him to die, but he quickly became my favorite characters in this series, I don't really want to spoil anything so I'll just end it there.

Translation: 10
Flawless,nothing was out of place and in fact, it felt like I was reading an actual novel and not a light novel.

Overall Enjoyment: 10
The two volumes gave me more closure than any of the other 40 or so light novels I've read. The author could even end the entire series at the second volume and I wouldn't be disappointed.

Conclusion:
In conclusion, this is probably the best fantasy light novel I've read. This story, at times, even felt like a normal fantasy adventure novel and less like a typical isekai light novel, and coming from a guy who dropped the anime on the first few episodes, I recommend "Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash."

This review is based on the official english release of "Slayers vol. 1: The Ruby Eye."

Story: 5
The story of the first volume of Slayers didn't really impress me, it might be due to the fact that the novel is so old that I've already seen the same story again and again and it has grown stale.

Character: 7
The focus of this section will be the MC, Lina Inverse, because at the point of writing this review I have already forgotten all the other characters. Despite the author being a male himself, he was somehow crazy enough to try to make a first person story told ... by a narcissistic, and arrogant female main character. It was strange because halfway through the book I wondered if the author was female but instead it turned out to be a male author who was very passionate about "that time of the month." He somehow made a character (which I usually find annoying) work by making her overly female while at the same time contrasting that by making her a sorceress warrior with a mouth.

Translation: 7
There are some words here and there that made the flow of reading stop but seeing as this is an older book from 2004(?) I'll give it a pass.

Overall Enjoyment: 6
It's a decent book if you're bored and want to see what an old light novel is like. There were some jokes thrown here and there, some jokes that jab at females, and some that are extremely unfunny and excruciating to read. Some scenes drag on and on which takes away a lot from the immersion. If I were to rate this as a comedy novel (which felt like it was most of the time) I'd give it a 0. The action scenes were also lacking due to how little descriptions the author gave during the scenes. Again, most of my enjoyment came from reading about Lina's thoughts on the situation.

Conclusion:
This review is a bit late but since no one has reviewed this yet I felt compelled to do so because I am very bored and I have nothing better to do. To my surprise, it's pretty cheap on amazon. When I bought this book at a convention I expected the sell price to be high since it looked so ancient, sadly that is not the case.

This review is based on the official english release of the first 3 volumes of "So I'm a Spider, So What?"

This is also an updated version of my original review now that I have read more volumes.

Story:

For the most part, the story has picked up the pace and is now moving in a direction slightly similar to the Overlord series. It no longer involves just Kumoko and her adventures throughout the Labyrinth, the story has now gotten bigger and moved on to not only Kumoko's story, but the world's story. After 3 volumes the world's rules and mysteries start to unravel one by one, and ... although there are still plenty of questions left unanswered, it only strengthens my resolve to keep reading.

Character:

The story is told from the two perspectives of the main characters Shun and Kumoko along with some interludes from other characters. Unfortunately if you dislike one of the two main characters you will not have a particularly good time reading this series. Sadly I am one of those people. Although I adore Kumoko and her chapters very much, HALF of the story is told from the perspective of a generic hero character. I often found myself taking breaks as soon as I saw the letter "S" on the chapters, and it instantly ruined the immersion I had from the previous chapters before it. His chapters are thankfully, very short (at least 10 pages) but somehow they feel EXCRUCIATINGLY long because of how little character he has. It's just not fun to read and it makes it very hard to care about what he does. His arcs, although interesting and full of potential, falls short for me because of this.

Translation:

No problems with the translations, no mistakes to break the flow of reading.

Overall Enjoyment:

My enjoyment came mostly from the Kumoko chapters and the small chapters of the side characters, another part of my enjoyment came after reading the novels, speculating what could happen in the next volume. The story just keeps getting bigger and it makes me excited to see more.

Conclusion:

In the end, the first volume will decide if you like the series or not. I wrote on my first review of the first volume that I did not like Shun, that I thought he was just there for exposition, and that he had little character development. My impression of him has not improved even after 2 volumes. I recommend that you read the first volume first, and if you don't like any of the two characters, too bad because it seems like neither of them will change very much. As for me, I just want Kumoko to kill Shun at this point, now that would be interesting.