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Mar 10, 2023
"The Dark Maidens", was there a better title for this story?
This work is a murder mystery following the pattern of unreliable narrators.
Story (9): The plot is rather interesting. Several students of an all-girl High School are assembled for what the first narrator, ex-vice-president of the Literature Club Sayuri Sumikawa, describe as the "Mystery Stew". These girls are all members of the Literature Club and they have gathered in the club's room one week after the incident that occurred in the school, which is the death of the former president, Itsumi Shiraishi.
Each of the girl is demanded to bring a story to the table regarding Itsumi's
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death and, at the end, they will try to understand one thing. Was that a suicide? Was that a murder? If it was so, who is the culprite? All this will be done while they eat from the Mystery Stew (which will be described in the first part of the book, I'll leave the details to you).
Art (6): The art is nothing special and does not add anything to the story. It's just fine, not bad and not exceptional.
Characters (10): What really shines in this story are, of course, our girls.
Everyone of them wrote a piece honoring the victim, Itsumi, while bringing their perpsective about who is the murderer. Each story is rich with details, interesting to read and with one or several plot twists. Really enjoyable! What is real? What is not? Will you be able to understand it by the hints given in all their stories?
Overall (10): A story is composed of several important aspects, the beginning and the plot are fundamental, as well as the development, but nothing holds more importance than the ending. What stands out in this Light Novel are the last two chapters, which I found incredbile, enough to let my mouth gape in surprise several times! They perfectly wrap up this beautiful story and give us those missed pieces of the puzzle we were all building in our minds while reading this.
The ending is such a perfect cherry on this cake, that I decided to give it a 10.
What are you waiting for? Make yourself an Earl Grey Tea and enjoy this Light Novel.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Aug 25, 2022
If I had to use a term that describes why this is a must read, I would say it's "immersive".
If you like stories of struggle and difficulties, real characters that are humans and not just super intelligent or prepared for everything, relatable characters as well as supernatural elements that increase the beauty of the story, this is the right place for you.
This Light Novel is the second work of Hachimoku sensei. The plot is quite simple, but the story wrap up in a beautiful way.
Story (9): The story itself is nothing new. Time travel factor, a romantic hint and drama, but the environment as well
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as the wonderful way in which the author describes the scenary and how our MC feels and think is done very well. The time travel factor blends perfectly with the tale and the setting. The story gets more interesting as the days of the rollback are coming to an end and all the knots starts connecting each other.
Art (7): The art is fine, nothing exceptional. I don't particularly like Kukka's art but its neat and clean at least. I wish there would be more drawings.
Characters (10): The good part arrives here. The characters are incredibly relatable. When the story was coming near the end, I was completely immersed in it. The way the author describes the feelings and the struggles of the characters, as well as how they overcome the hard times they are having, is simply wonderful. I found myself completely engaged especially from the third interlude.
Whenever I was reading about a particular character having a hard time in other mangas/animes I was never much invested since I never had those experiences, so I could not understand or grasp their struggles, but here the problems and sufferings, as well as the joy of overcoming them is descrived so beautifully that I found myself as if I was living what the character was narrating. I would get mad if something bad happened or get distressed over a problem or extremely happy after the solution. This is the way to write proper characters, sasuga Hachimoku sensei!
Overall (10): When the characters are described so well I tend to increase my score, since the relationships between the characters are the pillar of every story. I recommend this LN to everyone, have a fun ride!
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Sep 12, 2020
I will start my review with a semiquote of Tower of God:
"What do you desire?
Romance?
Friendship?
How to deal with the struggle at work?
Or something that surpass all others?
Whatever you desire... that is here, in ReLIFE!"
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After I read this manga I found myself asking me a question. How it was possible to find such a masterpiece? It has all that I love the most. The (re)life of Kaizaki Arata gave us a full experience of what life is and how difficult is sometimes to deal with everything. This manga goes from romance to friendship and also show us that it's not easy to deal with the difficulties of life. Every character has his past and they have deal with their own failures and problems.
This manga showed me that we shouldn't judge people at first sight, we shouldn't criticize others because we don't know what they are experiencing, we shouldn't take it easy when it comes to deal with others, we should try to understand how they feel, what they want and why they are behaving like that.
It showed the heaviness of harassment, how it can change someone's life, both in work and at school, how can hurt others and how can mark someone forever.
It also showed the beauty of youth, how important is to go out with your friends and enjoy this time while you can still be without thoughts, because grown up life isn't gonna be easy and you should enjoy every single moment of high school.
It showed the importance of love, how is difficult to confess your feelings and how is hard to love someone knowing that one day everything can finish.
Every character taught me something that I will bring in my heart forever.
So please, enjoy this work and read it all! It's spectacular!
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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