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I highly recommend reading this series to anyone who liked the anime. I've currently read five volumes, and it still remains very interesting. It initially caught my interest after watching the anime, and the novels feel much the same. If you liked the anime, then you'll probably also like the novel. The novels are structured as a collection of short stories that follow a detective format, centered around medicinal themes. While the short stories might seem disconnected at first, they each subtly contribute to and advance the main plot. This makes for nice stopping points, but it can sometimes be a bit frustrating not to ... know the outcomes of an investigation immediately. Instead, it often only becomes apparent much later in the novel(s), even if it seemed inconsequential at the time. This is part of what keeps the story engaging for me; the other part is to see how the relationship between the main character, Maomao, and Jinshi develops over time.

The setting is an unspecified era of fictional Chinese history, somewhere with an imperial family. I can't comment on the historical accuracy, but besides the mystery-solving, I find reading about the workings of the palace and Maomao's daily life in and around the place to be a lot of fun to read as well. The other characters are also engaging to read about, but I'll omit them to prevent spoilers.

Overall, this is definitely one of my favorite series. The story is very well written, the characters are interesting, and the English translation I'm reading is great as well. At the time of writing this review, there are nine volumes translated already, so there's plenty of material available if you intend to read in English.

The story is centered around a guy who has been reincarnated as a sword, and is now carried around by the adventurer Fran.

The story by itself has been fun to read. It features many of the aspects common to other Isekai novels, like a game-like leveling system with skills and everything. The story also visits interesting places and they, the sword and Fran, aren't just aimlessly wandering around and actually have a goal in mind. Which is always nice.

Below I'm explaining the reasons for my rating in a bit more detail. So some very mild spoilers ahead.

The character gaining new skills and growing stronger is ... a fun way to show a character's progress/development in my opinion. However, it happens quite often that the writer seemingly forgets about things he's written before like; Fran gains a new skill, next volume the skill is gone. Fran gains new specialized equipment, next volume the equipment's function is forgotten and replaced with something new that does the same thing.
Something else that bothers me is that, while Fran does grow stronger, everyone else seemingly does so too. In volume 1 there are only a couple of strong people she encounters, a couple of volumes later the hero-rank adventures literally start popping out of the bushes.

All in all, it's a fun story to read, just don't mind the smaller details.

Gaikotsu Kishi-sama, Tadaima Isekai e Odekakechuu has been fun to read so far. It feels just like the average isekai novel featuring an overpowered mc but that's fine for me.
The story has the protagonist fight a couple of unjust foes, help the impoverished and rediscover Japanese cuisine. Just the average isekai stuff. Nothing wrong with that.
The only thing that bothers me about the story is the lack of narrative. Namely, the story seems to be all over the place. Interesting characters and places are introduced at the start of every story arc. But after resolving their problem, in what feels like a single paragraph, ... the protagonist just spectacularly ignores them and never mentions them again. And this keeps happening time and again. At first, I thought that there must be some hidden overarching story arc that I just hadn't noticed yet. But I'm five volumes in now and it just keeps happening, without them showing any meaningful connections between them.
Despite that, the adventures are still fun to follow and the protagonist and his teammates are interesting to read about.

All this together has lead to me giving this series a 6. It was fun to read, but it just wasn't anything special. It was just average.