It’s time for a camping trip! Everyone’s looking forward to spending a little time outdoors—until disaster strikes, that is. What will Elma do when she loses the youngsters in the mountains?
Camping and Magic school!! This series is just great! I love all the dragon girls and I just can't get enough of all the day to day, slice of life stories that this series presents!
There was a semblance of plot in this one! I love when this series has chapters that lead into character growth and development, but I don't like the way that the characters are portrayed visually. Elma and Kobayashi have to be the best dressed out of this series and that's saying a lot as they're the adults of the situations.
I have problems with Lulaco being around for a lot of the time, because I feel that if she's around she has to have Fafanir as a buffer and no kids. I could go into this further but that's probably a blog post.
What would I like more of? Kobayashi learning actual magic with Shouta! That was an excellent plot point! I would love to see her and Shouta practicing magic together and her finding out that she isn't just a human, that she has more to her and that she's just as important as her wife, maid, and daughters!!
Kanna is getting the face to face time with her dad that she apparently needs to have next volume, and while I know that Kobayashi is going to keep her child I've been greatly anticipating this face off ever since I saw the snips of it on tumblr!!
I decided to read the Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid manga because I was curious to compare it to the two seasons of the anime—which I liked a lot despite being uncomfortable with the way Lucoa sexually harasses an elementary school student—and I was a bit surprised to find that, unlike the other anime where I've read the manga or light novel source material, that the events are fairly scrambled. Things tend to happen in fairly different orders in the anime and the manga, and some events in the anime seem to have been created for the anime, while some bits of the manga are left out of or changed in the anime. Honestly, I think I prefer the anime, but it's interesting to see the source material, too. Hopefully the movie that came out in theatres this year will come out for home viewing, too, soon.
The second season of the anime seems to cover material through about two-thirds of this volume, so reading the whole volume means I'm now a bit ahead of the anime. (Although I'm not sure that there will ever be a third season of the anime, and the material in the movie seems to be from further ahead in the manga, assuming it is from the manga.)
I'm really enjoying reading this series. I'm glad I stuck around. Ok it's definitely not an epic like The Iilyad, & it's definitely nowhere near as serious as Citrus or Dome X Girl, & it's nowhere near as funny as Love Hina nor does it have a stellar cast like Yuuna & the Haunted Hotsprings or Yokai Girls, but it's still fun, engaging, & entertaining. This author, well he's like the Dave Matthews Band of manga. You pretty much know what you are getting before it starts. I'm not saying that's bad, just that you know what to expect. Good quality entertainment. Art, rough yet fun. Dialogue, a little silly at times, but good. Characters, loveable & adorable.
This volume features some of the last stories presented in the anime. After taking a trip to America and getting lost in the mountains wth her friends, Kanna finds herself asking questions about which side she should be on with the other dragons and Miss Kobayashi attempts sobriety only to meet up with a very mysterious individual. The book is full of greeat bits of humor, especially as Shouta and Lucoa attend a magic school in England. LOl. Yes, they make sure to reference to Harry Potter.
More of a 3.5 star rating; I really like that this volume showed a bit more of Shouta with him having to bring Kobayashi and several others to his magic school exam. It was very amusing to see just how much magic Kobayashi unintentionally knows and how nonchalant she was about it. Seeing the latter chapters of this volume focus a bit more on Kanna was also really interesting to see and with the cliffhanger ending, I’m very curious going into this next volume.
3.5 Stars. A very good volume from this series. Every character gets their chance to shine and the last chapter sets up the story that actually peaks my interest with the manga in the first place. I have to say the standout of this volume is Kobayashi acing a mage exam. For quite a while now I've wanted her to learn some kind of magic or something akin to it. Well she doesn't actually know how to cast it, it's probably the closest we will get and I am satisfied with it.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
If you wanna have some soft, funny and meaningfull reading during the weekend, and you've been following this series, this is your book. Easy read, good English version, art is as japanese as it can possibly be.
Sigue siendo super cute, y el cliffhanger en el que acaba tiene tela, pero no llega a llenarme de amor como el primero hizo. Aún así recomendadísima la serie y con muchas ganas de continuar al siguiente.
Still good comedic stories that help develop every character. We more so see the bonds between them strengthened or more information about their backgrounds. It seems with every volume the fanservice gets turned up slightly. It’s crazy how this volume was printed around 11 years ago in Japan!