It's About the Journey
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Alegría "Joy" Rodriguez-Thayer had been many things: a typical American corporate drone, an armchair linguist, a starving musician, and most recently, struggling to make ends meet with a mid-tier non-profit job after being widowed at 40, dreams of world travel stifled and ultimately shattered by a lifetime of missed opportunity.In another time and place, schoolgirl Izumi Yoshiko looked forward to her Coming of Age Day, having lived her whole life in the rural town of Takasane-machi in the land of Mikata-no-kuni. Being one of the few in her town born pureblooded human, she eagerly awaited the prophecy that she would become host to a "reborn soul".With their meeting, they set off to go see this great new world and make new friends along the way. The destination doesn't matter: it's about the journey.
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- Status
- Hiatus
- Year
- 2022
- Author
- AnimeBirder
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- 5.0/ 5.0
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- 8
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- 1,839
Chapters(6 total)
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- TheLeakingPenRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0Advance notice. I am friends with the author, but those who know me knows that means I tend to be MORE eviscerating.
This review is as of Chapter 2, things are likely to evolve and change. Hopefully for the better.
It's about the Journey promises to be a mellow, slice of life travelouge of a story, and I am here for it! After some well balanced tropes to open the story, we are looking at an interesting world of known and unknown, and we get to explore it with the MCs as they explore the world together.
The interesting concept is that the Isekaied protag is going to SHARE a body with someone who grew up in the new world, which is perfect set up for a wide variety of interactions and shenannigans. Characters have a good voice, still being developed, but you can feel the individuals in their dialogue, which is always nice. I am especially looking forward to seeing how their voices will evolve as they speak to each other mentally.
The story could use an editing polish ,but minor typos, nothing agregious. Grammar is sharp, word choice is pleasing and meanings and context clues are made clear in any case of jargon or other languages.
Speaking of other languages, the fact that the writer is a multi-lingual student of linguistics shows in the use of an evolved, far future version of Japanese that is strung through the world. Its weebtastic but feels very accurate. I'm looking forward to more.