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Nina starts off life as an orphan, but is quickly sold out by someone she trusted. Her beautiful blue eyes make her rare and alluring, but also an almost perfect double for the recently deceased princess Alisha. Her captor is Prince Azure, Alisha’s older brother, who brings Nina into the palace and strikes a deal with her to impersonate the princess in exchange for a comfortable life. Nina goes through etiquette training and soon has to put her acting skills to the test in front of the king, Alisha's father, and her stepmother, who haven't seen Alisha in a number of years. The next test will be to survive long enough to be married off to a prince and secure an alliance for her kingdom!
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Our heroine meets an untimely death but received a message just before asking her if she wanted to purchase the full insurance package for her transmigration journey. Once in the afterlife, she is asked what kind of story she wanted to be placed in, and she asked for a childcare fantasy, but she gets an S-class novel instead! Rather than live out her afterlife in relative ease compared to the hardships she endured in her first life, she’s now stuck as Ailette, an energetic child of an alchemist serving a noble household. Thankfully, she thought to partake in the full insurance package, so can purchase skills such as cooking, alchemy, fighting, and impress everyone into thinking she's a child prodigy, all to help her navigate her difficult storyline! ![]()
Adapted by Mo9Rang
A botched attempt at revenge causes Abigail to confess her fondness for Blanche, but this works out for Abigail in the end as Blanche becomes more comfortable around her. With the Foundation Ball coming up, Abigail's family is worried she will be snubbed again like last year, owing to the fact that Sabrian refuses to dance with his queen. Compounding their worries is Abigail's failure to produce an heir for her new kingdom. When Abigail asks Sabrian to ensure he will dance with her this year, he confides that he lacks the confidence to dance with her because he is terrible at dancing. Abigail invites him to practice sessions with her and Blanche, hoping to help his skill level but also repair some of the relationship between Sabrian and Blanche. ![]()
Laios finds himself within an inch of his life after being attacked by a fierce suit of armor. As the party helps him recover, they are beset by succubi, and everyone is susceptible except Izutsumi. She nurses them back to health using cooking methods she thinks Senshi would follow if he were able. Laios has an illuminating dream while knocked out from being drained by the succubi, except he only remembers, “don’t trust the Canaries.” Elsewhere in the dungeon, Kabru and Captain Mithrun of the Canaries have fallen to the 6th floor after their run in with the Lunatic Magician, and to Kabru’s ultimate disgust, they must resort to eating monsters in order to survive, just like Laios. Mithrun tells Kabru about his past and why he’s very powerful but helpless at the same time, and why the dungeon seems to be providing for their every need.
![]() Vol 1: If I only had a Heart, co-created and illustrated by Drew Zucker, colored by Vittorio Astone, lettered by AndWorld Design In 2024, Dark Horse began a publication of Canto, the story by David M. Booher and Drew Zucker. This story was originally published with IDW, so to find the synopses, check out my original reviews of the paperbacks below: vol 1, vol 2, vol 3, vol 2.5-3.5 This review is of the new hardcovers specifically and how I believe this format will best serve library patrons. Note: 2.5-3.5 will be re-release as Vol 3, while Vol 3 will be re-release as Vol 4 under Dark Horse. ![]()
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Aria continues her machinations to ruin her sister Mielle’s life by trying to undermine the relationship between Mielle and her future betrothed, Oscar. Instead, Aria finds out many of her plans are backfiring. She discovers the business tips she gave to her stepfather in volume one were attributed to Mielle, so the nobility believe Mielle to be a budding economic genius. Mielle also sends maids to “help” Aria, who are actually spying on her, so Aria uses the hourglass to pick out one of Mielle’s maids who is young and potentially easy to win over. At a spring festival, Aria runs into Lord Asher again and tried to steer clear of him, but unexpected explosions have them running for safety together. ![]()
Illustrated by Mo9Rang
One day, a child fashion designer works herself to her literal death and awakens as the queen in the fairytale-inspired story she was reading. Now living as Abigail, she finds herself trapped in a loveless marriage with a husband who gives her the creeps, and the worst case of Resting-B**** Face that scares the daylights out of everyone, including her beautiful step-daughter Blanche, the Snow-White figure of the story. Abigail can’t stop herself from wanting to continue to design clothes, but the person she would love to dress up more than anything is afraid of her, and the entire castle still thinks she's a terrible villain. First, she has to repair some of the relationships with the maids that former Abigail has terrorized, Blanche, who is deathly afraid of her wicked stepmother, and her husband Sabrian, who doesn’t trust her at all. ![]()
Illustrated by Tsukasa Abe
Frieren and Denken relive Macht's memories and see him come to Weiss. They see the deal he makes with the lord of Weiss and all of his time in the Northern Lands was spent in order to understand human emotions. Frieren spends two additional months analyzing Macht's memories in an effort to break down the Diagoldze spell to find a way to counter it. Another powerful demon from Macht's past, Solitär, comes to help break Macht out of his barrier around Weiss. Fern and Stark confront her, yet Frieren's teachings lead Fern to want to flee because Solitär is a powerful demon with no recorded past - meaning she most likely rarely leaves victims alive to tell of her. ![]()
Our merry band of adventurers carelessly traipes through a ring of changeling mushrooms on their way out of volume 7, and as they sleep at the beginning of volume 8, they awake to find themselves all in another’s skins, so to speak. Senshi is an elf, Marcille is a halffoot, Chilchuck is a tall man, Laios is a dwarf, and Izutsumi is a kobold. Their fighting styles are nearly impossible when their magic runs dry quickly, strength is nonexistent, senses are all wrong. They have to find more mushrooms to change themselves back but the dungeon is still moving and forging new paths forward instead of backward. We also learn more about Chilchuck’s past with his family and estranged relationship with his wife. Meanwhile, the elves also try to close up the dungeon but things don’t go according to Kabru’s expectations as the elves come face to face with the Lunatic Magician.
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In a strange black-and-white city, Zet is studying to become a holy leader for his people. That means stamping out all traces of color and keeping them safe from the fierce creatures on the other side of the walls that thrive on color. One day, Zet discovers a creature in the tallest tower, a creature with two different colored eyes. But she's a girl, not a monster, and her very existence conjures questions about the rules of color, the way of life for those inside the walls, and what sacrifices are truly necessary for their survival.
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