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We’re starting to put together some plans behind the scenes here at Free State of Geek. It’s too soon to announce any specific details or anything, but we’re excited about the possibilities. So if we can get all the pieces in the proper places then some big and pretty cool stuff will be happening with Free State of Geek, and it’ll be awesome. Hopefully it won’t take much longer than a handful of months to put the plans in place, but we’ll keep you posted.
In other news, hello, and welcome back to the beginning of another week. It’s time for another Manga Monday post. And today I’m finally getting around to starting the reviews from the manga I read during Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon back in April. Yes, sometimes it does take that long to get around to reviewing something. Especially in the case of manga, because I’ll read 5-10 volumes at one time and then I’ll need to wait for an open slot in my review schedule to talk about it. Most of my reviews from the past few months were read at the end of December/beginning of January.
Okay, let’s go ahead and jump into the review.
The award-winning light-novel series is now getting a manga adaptation! A salaryman collapses from a gunshot wound. When he comes to, he finds himself reincarnated in another world as a fifteen-year-old healer named Luciel with a talent for holy magic. In order to survive in this new world, he must build up his body and endure intensive and strict physical training, not to mention awful flavors! His masochistic zombie streak takes root in Volume 1 of The Great Cleric!
My Thoughts
Rating: 4 stars
So earlier this year, I found an article that was a list of manga, and I can’t even remember what the subject of the article was, but I found quite a few I wanted to check out, and thankfully we managed to find the first volumes of them on a trip to the bookstore. The Great Cleric was one of those.
This is an isekai fantasy series, and it follows someone who is shot and then reincarnated in a fantasy world. In this world he is known as Luciel and he has a talent for holy and healing magic.
Through the course of this first volume, he undergoes some healing training, and ends up joining two different guilds, one a healing guild and one an adventuring guild. He is doing so much training and work and effort to strengthen himself so he can survive and thrive in his new world and life.
About the only problem I have with so many of these isekai adventures is that they follow main characters who work workaholics in their old life and after coming to a fantastical world and being given magic powers, they once again just become workaholics.
I think that’s why I like isekai like The Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent and The Savior’s Book Cafe Story in Another World, because yes Sei is a bit of a workaholic, but she also takes time to learn about her new world and experience it and enjoy it. And Tsukina doesn’t want to work hard and study hard and be a Savior; she just wants to read books and have her little book cafe, and that is just great.
But, I can say that I’m definitely intrigued by this one, and I want to see Luciel achieve greater healing magics, and become respected within the adventuring guild for the skills he has. And while I’m annoyed by the continued pushing of the hustle and grind workaholic mentality, it will be interesting to see what comes from all of these training montages.
So, this is a series I plan to continue at some point. I just don’t know when I’ll be making another manga trip to the bookstore.
Well, that’s all from me for today. Thank you so much for stopping by, and I’ll be back soon with more geeky content.
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