[Light Novel] Bone Princess Rosalie
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Title: Bone Princess Rosalie—The Strongest Girl Relives the Final Moments of the Dead and Inherits Their Power
Title Japanese: 骨姫ロザリー 死者の力を引き継ぐ最強少女
Title Japanese Romaji: Hone hime rozarī shisha no chikara o hikitsugu saikyō shōjo (Google TL)
Author: Oboro Maru (朧丸)
Illustrator: Mikisai (みきさい)
Label: オーバーラップ文庫 / Overlap Bunko
Publisher: Overlap
Volume 1 Cover Art
Volume 1 blurb: (MTL with Chat GPT.)
In a world ruled by Magic Knights who wield supernatural abilities known as “Magic Arts,” a girl named Rosalie possesses the despised attribute of a “Necromancer Knight” and is forced to work extracting information from corpses. However, her fate takes a dramatic turn when she encounters the corpse of Hugo, a Necromancer Knight once hailed as the strongest, and inherits his tremendous power! Now awakened, Rosalie seeks a place where she belongs and takes the entrance exam for an academy attended by others who possess the same “Magic Arts” as her. Hoping to keep a low profile and avoid persecution for being a Necromancer Knight, she accidentally overwhelms everyone during the practical exam. Before she knows it, her delicate appearance and incredible abilities have made her famous throughout the world—!? The curtain rises on a dazzling, unstoppable fantasy adventure starring the strongest girl who commands the dead!
Volume 1 released on 2024-05-25.
Volume 2 released on 2025-04-25.I just caught up with the web novel and really liked it. The series manages an overpowered main character while retaining tension by putting it into social structures and the struggles of side characters. What is not to love when the main character is a cute lawful good* necromancer?
A small concern is no new volume for more than a year, but surely they have not dropped this...? The fourth manga volume released just a little over a week ago.
*Conditionas may apply.
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@Tube I also second this one
