Rejected by the Hero's Party, a Princess Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside (Manga), Vol. 1

真の仲間になれなかったお姫様は、辺境でスローライフすることにしました (Manga) #1

by Mutsuki Higashioji (Artist), Zappon (Original Story), Yasumo (Character Design)

“people like you are called heroes!”

Before she reunited with Red in the quiet town of Zoltan, Princess Rizlet of Loggervia was renowned not only as royalty but as the brave warrior Rit. She even enlisted as a mercenary to defend her home against the demon lord before the Hero’s party stepped in! But after going their separate ways, she finds herself…suddenly thrown out of her own country?! Now Rit has no choice but to embrace her new, untethered life as an adventurer, traveling wherever the wind blows―though who knows where in Avalon she’ll end up…

Genres: Manga

180 pages, Paperback

First published July 26, 2022

About the author

東大路ムツキ

Reviews

[Susanna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Princess Rizlet is the hero of the Duchy of Loggervia after a devastating war. People are starting to talk she should be made the queen even, but the chancellor Julian schemes to have her exiled from the country instead, for rather odd reasons. She ends at the frontier town of Zoltan and becomes an adventurer there. The volume consists of her quests as an adventurer, except she has to start as a low-level adventurer instead of her own A-rank. And instead of clearing dungeons, she solves mysteries.

The contents don't exactly match the title of quiet life, but the stories were fun and illustrations were good if typically sexist, though nothing to require the explicit content warning that's on the cover.

I received a free copy from Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.

[Adam · Rating 3 out of 5]

i didn't find the story to be very engaging and I don't understand why Rit's blessing is different even though most of her backstory is the same. I'm also not sure where this is in the timeline and if Gideon or the Hero will have any part.

[寿理 宮本 · Rating 3 out of 5]

I picked this up because I was confused why the difference, but also because the new copy is shrink-wrapped in the store, which normally means "explicit content"...

Well. I don't know if my calibration for "explicit content" has been thrown off by the sheer volume of weaksauce pornography, but I didn't find anything THAT bad...? Certainly not on the level of outright pornography and sexual assault *by the so-called "hero"* (which astonishes me that THAT isn't shrink-wrapped in the store). Like, the worst I can see is a monster licks a young girl in a way that *could* be sexual but is more understandably "wants to literally eat her as dinner as opposed to a sexual encounter"...

Is that the difference? Since a child is involved, shrink-wrap? Like, Made in Abyss was the same—there's a single panel of a child stripped naked and hung by her arms or whatever as punishment. Hmm.

I guess I just find it confusing. As it is, anybody can just stroll into the store and thumb through the "adventures" of a shitty dude playing at being hero but secretly molesting LITERALLY EVERY WOMAN. Relatively clean book like this? Gotta buy it (or tear off the shrink-wrap in the store without paying, I guess, if you want to be a terrible person).

...the story, right.

So, this is a kind of "alternate history" version of the "normal" timeline from Banished by the Hero's Party, but with some difference I don't really follow. Rit still has her brassiere showing the whole time on her adventures, though—is that strategically good? I feel like it's not, but manga characters generally suffer from Male Gaze and have really no clue how to manage their assets, as it were. (Other than to complain if they don't have enough of them, especially when standing next to someone with abundance.)

Rit's alternate story does at least feel like the sort of thing she must have gone through in the other timeline when searching for Gideon/Red, though. At least there's that! But it then feels like, is he going to show up later? Also, she wasn't actually "rejected" as per the title—she just didn't join the hero's party. I guess that's a marketing decision to keep it vaguely like the original's title? I don't know.

On the whole, okay but nothing to write home about (even though I did, haha... well, not to MY home). A little weird for fans of the original, but an interesting thought exercise, sort of like Riche having to start her life over almost from scratch for the SEVENTH TIME.

[Kenny Ketner · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's alright