Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?! Vol. 1

As a person who was Manga first for this series, I think that this manga is judged by the wrong metrics, and thus gets somewhat undeserved ratings. Here's my theory - since you can never put as much detail in a manga as a light novel anyway, Nekomint didn't try to "retain as much as possible", but instead to create a second trap to pull in those the web novel (b/c if you can read Japanese, you can easily read the "trial version" off Narou) didn't hook. So not only does this manga put the weight on selling the characters more than the plot, it also tries to take different paths from the novel. For example, the LN started with Adele (Misato's new "vessel") on her bed, and without any obvious trigger the memories started coming back and we are introduced to Misato (in effect, we never saw Adele) and her life and her post-death interview, blah blah. One has to understand that the title already establishes the protagonist as OP, and she wants to be Average (an arrogant thought reserved to those who were Exceptional). Not an encouraging start and a jaded reader's patience is already very thin. So instead the manga soothes you with cute Adele and there's a clear trigger. The interview and the explanation of her powers are also cut to essentials, and we transition quickly to the next major point and the protagonist's big redeeming feature - she doesn't really want her powers! Yes, they made it before the reader gives up! One also quickly gets the sense that Mile (what the fused Misato and Adele will call themselves) and Adele have very similar personalities, which is desirable because the original's unconventional decision for a "reactivation" at 10 years age begs the question of what happened to Adele's personality upon reactivation. Maybe Misato deserves a second run, but not at the expense of ... anyway, the manga solves this problem by showing you "Before" and "After" reactivation, and one is soothed by how much of cute Adele actually survived. In the original, I suspect the author took until the start of the Hunter School deciding if Mile will work better as "mostly" an 18-year old or 10-12. Manga comes down firmly on the 10/12-year old option (the novel eventually settles on this), which I think is another reason why the school stuff was reworked as a flashback and cut to the essentials - some are ambivalent but others were clearly made with Mile as 18 years old and she can actually be somewhat ... rough - a combination that works better in writing than drawing. Instead, you get a somewhat reworked entry to the Hunter School that emphasizes on showing Mile's desires, fears and kindness. By the end of it, you should be deeply sympathetic to Mile and also like her companions. Now, with that Lead-In, you will be able to enjoy the Light Novel more, and you will favorably interpret Mile's wrinkles. The manga artist is a rookie, and you can see the rough edges from time to time. Yet there's also a sense of love radiating from the images. For example, the non-descript hunter school classmates of Mile actually got unique character designs though they'd barely be seen again. If the manga artist loves the series, well maybe we should give it a chance as well. The character design is slanted towards the cute side, though the characters can actually look kind of cool too. Which is again, a different path than that taken by the LN illustrator (the later LNs start doing a better job of cute). Besides, since there are so many illustrations in a comic and only a few in the light novel, the comic should form the basis of what comes up when you imagine the characters, which will increase your enjoyment reading the text. BTW, specific to the English version, frankly the Manga is the first competent translation for Average where I am not thrown out of my seat reading oddities and errors, so it has to be given credit on this note as well. So there it is, an unconventional manga that does its "mission" of supporting the franchise very well.

It was a gift for my daughter, and she loves it. Wants to collect all the books.

This is another one of those reincarnation stories that's becoming rather popular in Japan now in manga and anime. There's also an anime series that's available for viewing on Crunchyroll, and a light novel series as well. I haven't read the novel series, but there are definite story differences in the manga than in the anime. (In the anime for example, after meeting her new friends the heroine sets out with them to save serval children in the village who've been kidnapped, something that doesn't happen in the manga.) This was an entertaining read, however it was a bit confusing for me at first because the sequence of events is told out of order. In chronological order, here's what happens in the first volume: in a fantasy world, one that resembles renaissance-era Earth but one where magic and monsters exist, a horse-drawn carriage is transporting a group of people through a forest to the kingdom of Brandel. Inside the carriage a ten-year-old girl, Adele von Ascham, tells the other passengers about how her father and stepmother sent her away to the boarding school Eckland Academy. Then the carriage is attacked by a band of bandits. Adele (who is a magic-user) tries to drive them off by summoning water spears, but her spell goes out of control and a huge body of water appears and splashes over everyone. After getting doused with the water, Adeles old memories come back: in a past life she was a Japanese schoolgirl, Kurihara Misato, from our world. Kurihara was exceptionally intelligent and a straight-A student, however her peers resented her for this and shunned her, preventing her from making any friends. Then on the day of her high school graduation she saw a little girl on a bike fall over and land in the street just as a truck was racing by. Kurihara rushed out and pushed the little girl out of the way, only to get hit by the truck and die instead. In the afterlife she met God, who told her she would be reborn into another world. Kurihara asked that in her next life she be an average, ordinary person, feeling that this would make it easier for her to blend in and make friends, and thus she was reborn as Adele. After recovering, Adele is visited by a floating nanomachine, who says her magic is powerful because she has extremely strong thought pulse transmission. He says her power is roughly half that of an elder dragon, the most powerful being in this world...which means her magic power is 6,800 more powerful than the average magic-using human. Adele freaks out, as this was not at all what she asked for! Later she arrives at Eckland Academy, determined to fit in and not let the others know about her extraordinary abilities. At school she soon makes friends with three girls: Marcela and her two companions, Aureana and Monika. Then one day while in town Adele spots a carriage escorted by men on horseback coming through. The townsfolk tell her it's the princess paying a visit. When a young boy gets too close, a guard starts viciously beating him to obstructing the way. Adele jumps in the way and forms a magic forcefield between her, the boy, and everyone else. The people all wonder how anyone could produce such a thing. The nanomachine reappears and tells Adele this is not something any other human could do. Adele freaks out, fearing everyone will learn her secret, then comes up with the idea to lie to everyone and tell them she's a goddess who momentarily took possession of an ordinary young girls body, that they must cease their attack, and that when she leaves the girl will have no memory of being possessed. After the incident Adele thinks she's in the clear, but then she's visited by a messenger from the palace who tells her the king requested her to come to the castle. Adele is worried that this will further screw up her plans for a normal life, so she tells the messenger that there was a mistake and that Adele is someone else. Adele then leaves behind Eckland Academy and her friends, changes her name to Mile, and enrolls at the Hunters Prep School where she meets a new batch of (all female) friends: Mavis von Austien, a knight, Reina, a combat mage, and Pauline, a healing mage...and the rest you can find out from reading the book.

Great book.

When Adele is ten years old, she regains her memories of a previous life, which ended when she died saving another. Those memories include a post-death interview, in which she is rewarded for her sacrifice by being given a new life on a world of swords and sorcery. She was also offered special abilities, to compensate for being in a rougher and more-dangerous world than ours, but she declined. She had been exceptional in her previous life and hadn't enjoyed it. This time she wanted to be average. What she got was a very idiosyncratic sort of 'average'. I found the light novel delightful, and I got the manga when it arrived, for another interpretation of the story. It was not a successful adaptation. Too much story is compressed into too few pages, and the result did not flow well. What made the novel work was not so much the dry narrative of events as the protagonist's quirky social interactions - and mediocre social competence. That was most of what got left out of the manga.

I did like this manga, but I have to say I liked the Light Novel better, that's why I gave it 4 stars instead of 5. They also cut out some of my favorite parts in the book, but I understand that they couldn't fit everything in the manga. If you don't want to read the light novel this is fine but I recommend the light novel.

After reading the light novels the manga had something missing. Some of the key details were taken out or addressed differently

The heroine claims to want to be ordinary in order to make some friends, however, once she achieves friendships, she ditches them at the drop of a hat in order to hide any extraordinary abilities. Abandoning the reason and goal for her request in order to cling to the method. I find the ninny severely unlikable.

El artículo llegó a tiempo y en muy buenas condiciones sin defecto alguno.

無料のネット小説で気に入って買ったのですが、小説ではなく、漫画版でした。でもそのおかげで、うちの小学生の娘も喜んで読んでいました。おすすめ。

I love how sweet this story is it makes me smile and giggle in excitement. Mile and her team is just amazing I first started watching the Anime but the Manga is just as good just gotta use a little imagination

It is a fun story about being OP but wanting to be just average. I have only read 4 chapters of the first volume but I started from the anime and the manga is not disappoint and I recommend it to all fans of iseki.

Funny, Witty, Enjoyable Fantasy