@lily-garden The female perspective really works in this series. She's quite expressive especially when it comes to scenes where the male mc shows her parts of his past within the other world and what in any other isekai series would have been harem-esque developments but he's having none of it and has his mind thoroughly set on the one he loves, Koori.

Here are the Illustrations for volumes 2-5

I've heard this be compared to 'The Empty Box and Zeroth Maria' a couple times, a work that was hardly known in Japan but beloved and hailed as hidden gem by its English readers, and from what little I've read, it does seem very charming... even if that tragedy tag scares me a bit lmao. Still, I'd welcome any good mystery, especially if it is one with a strong central character dynamic.

@theredjet Ah ok. That ratio between light novels and manga was just so different from what I usually see that I wasn't quite sure what was going on.

Still keeping my fingers crossed that this series will be picked up one day. Volume 9 came out on Christmas:

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I've been rewatching the anime, and it's a lot better than I remember! Now I really want to read the novel.

@tube It's released in other Western countries like Brazil and Poland. But for some reason English might be too expensive for most publishers or something. Or Type-Moon/Aniplex are difficult? Who knows.