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Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen
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Maoujou de Oyasumi
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A little girl in a foreign environment labors to fulfill her passion and improve her living conditions with an almost single-minded fervor. Where Maoujou de Oyasumi frames the struggles through a comedic lens, Honzuki no Gekokujou belongs amongst the more serious isekai.
Similar setting/plot (just read the synopsis). One MC wants to sleep, the other wants to read.
The difference is that the sleeping princess makes good comedy, but the bookworm does drama.
IMO the character dynamic and the story felt more clean/reasonable in the Maoujou de Oyasumi, which is no surprise, since originally Maoujou de Oyasumi is a manga, and Honzuki no Gekokujou is a light novel. The manga was adapted with great direction, but the light novel adaptation felt artificial.
The drama is forced/unnatural in Honzuki no Gekokujou, especially compared to Maoujou de Oyasumi (yes, a comedy did it better, I actually cared about the characters more than
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Both feature a character that has a strong desire to do a certain activity but their environment is unable to fulfill them. So instead of doing nothing, they have decided to take the matter into their own hand and make everything from scratch so they can work towards fulfilling their desire/goal.
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