Mar 19, 2023
As the saying goes: Don't judge a book by its cover. Or rather in this case: Don't judge a book by its title. This is not another generic siscon novel, it actually isn't really a siscon novel at all.
-STORY-
A Sisters All You Need is a story about a group of eccentric light novel industry friends, their struggles as authors, and their ever-growing web of complex relationships. It perfectly straddles the line between a raunchy laugh out loud comedy, a character drama, a romantic comedy, and a cozy slice of life.
Each volume features many short chapters, usually ranging between 14 and 19 chapters total. The chapters
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tend to be small vignette or episodic style stories ranging from a few paragraphs to 30 pages. A lot of the chapters are about the main group of friends, just having fun playing board games or tabletop games like D&D. The author does an excellent job describing each game they play in detail.
Additionally, because the story is about a group of authors, it also features quite a bit of meta commentary on the actual light novel industry, which is super interesting. The characters discuss trends like over-saturation of samey isekai light novels, and often discuss real authors and popular series.
Volumes 1-4 are what were covered in the anime adaptation. Those first 4 volumes serve as a great introduction to the characters and their relationships, but don't have very much character development. Starting with volume 5 the relationships that were set up in the first 4 volumes really start to develop.
-CHARACTERS-
Early on, the story mainly focuses on comedy, which tends to be driven by the characters, quite a few of which are pretty goofy. Between the foul mouthed Nayuta who somehow finds a way to fit a sex joke into nearly every sentence she says, Ashley, A thirty-something year old loli Tax Accountant who specializes in doing taxes for authors just so she can torment them about purchasing eroge, and Puriketsu, a light novel Illustrator obsessed with drawing the perfect ass. The characters all work off of each other really well, and even with a bunch of the characters being so over the top, the dialog between them always feels natural.
Over time as the characters and their relationships develop, the comedy and gags start to have less of a focus. Quite a few characters who originally seemed to be just one note gag characters become much more complex later on. With the story diving deep into their insecurities, revealing why they have the quirks they do. Some characters do just remain gag characters though.
-ART-
The character design and artwork is just superb! So many small unique details in the characters and they all have fun quirks. The illustrations are very detailed and do an excellent job of depicting each character, no matter how ridiculous the situation. It has very clean digital art.
-OVERALL-
A Sisters All You Need is an incredibly engaging story that mixes crazy humor, heartfelt moments, and compelling drama. It also does an excellent job turning one note archetypal characters into very complex characters with unique relationships.
10/10 Highly recommended for fans of comedy, romance, and slice of life.
Nayuta Best gir!
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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