A Gentle Noble's Vacation Recommendation, Volume 1
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4.3 • 6 Ratings
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Publisher Description
When Lizel mysteriously finds himself in a city that bears odd similarities to his own but clearly isn't, he quickly comes to terms with the unlikely truth: this is an entirely different world. Even so, laid-back Lizel isn't the type to panic. He immediately sets out to learn more about this strange place, and to help him do so, hires a seasoned adventurer named Gil as his tour guide and protector.
Until he's able to find a way home, Lizel figures this is a perfect opportunity to explore a new way of life adventuring as part of a guild. After all, he's sure he'll go home eventually... might as well enjoy the otherworldly vacation for now!
Customer Reviews
It’s in the Subtle Things…
This manga adaptation of a novel series may not have the strongest natural first novel appeal at first glance. Do not let that deter you, however. This novel’s interest-hooking qualities lies in the quickly passable small details.
As a first warning, read the volume slower and ask yourself what you learn about the protagonist through what he says. I would say when you consider the smaller details the writing is 4 out of 5 stars. But the lack of stating everything up front like in most shounen and shojo targeted works means you have to discover those details to appreciate this volume as a 4 star (pretty good) rather than a 3 star (just good, quite decent).
I’ll list the interesting points next. You can check them against what you read on your own:
- the protagonist has an unusual ability to evaluate a person’s honesty and quality with only brief interaction (the appraisal person, the adventurer guild clerk, the solid adventurer he hires, and the rude adventurer)
- the protagonist curiously states that the matter of “how he can get back to his own world” is better left to the king he knows back home. This implies that the king is known by the protagonist to have knowledge of inter-world travel or things like that.
- the cryptic symbols the young adventurers are trying to decrypt is a language that the protagonist knows really well. It can be inferred from the protagonist’s words that it is the language of his home, and more wisely referred to it as “ancient language” in order to not let his knowledge of it stand out too much.
- the topic of guns between this world and the protagonist’s original world.
- the protagonist’s description of his world and this one being like two worlds flipped on an axis. Think of this series as a unique set up and take on isekai, like the protagonist is already from an “isekai-like world” who has ended up in another isekai-like world. That’s how I like to see it. And it greatly peaks my interest.
- it is curious how the protagonist and the solo adventurer he hires “hit it off” over the course of this volume, volume one.
- just who is the protagonist? A hero-like noble who worked very hard, now to land in a parallel-like world of his own? And, again, he has judged the person best suited to finding how to return him up to his king he served.