Nomination Post:
骨ドラゴンのマナ娘 1 / The Skull Dragon’s Precious Daughter
Natively: Level 26
Full furigana: Yes*
Summary
An abandoned girl finds her way to a dragon’s lair, and becomes raised as his daughter. Later, the girl finds she has magical aptitude and finds her way back to human civilization, under the watchful gaze of her bone dragon guardian.
Availability
Physical: Amazon JP | CD Japan
Digital: Bookwalker | Kindle
Personal Opinion
A cute little found family story in a fantasy setting that I found randomly on Bookwalker for free (though that offer is likely over by the time you’re reading this, it ends tomorrow at time of posting). I had fun
Pros and Cons
Pros
- I found it a pretty cute found family story.
- Probably a decent intro to fantasy type manga as it doesn’t go overboard on the fantasy lingo.
- The art is very detailed
Cons
- I put an asterisk on the “full furigana” because this book really likes its furigana puns. So the furigana is often saying something different to the reading of the kanji.
- It’s on the higher difficulty of the book club. It’s about the same as Frieren, maybe a little higher depending on your tolerance for the aforementioned puns, but on the other hand it’s lower in text density.
- Eve is a small child in chapter 1, and so speaks in hiragana only. She grows out of it by chapter 2 though.
Pictures
First Three Pages of Chapter One
Chapter 1 is very low text density, even by the standard of this book, so probably worth looking into the additional pages for 3 more representative pages from chapter 2.
