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REVIEW: The Holy Grail of Eris GN 1




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whiskeyii



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 23, 2022 9:31 am Reply with quote
I’m happy to hear they’re aiming for a (slavishly?) faithful adaptation; light novel prose just leaves me feeling pretty cold for whatever reason, so I prefer manga adaptations when I can get them, and I was looking forward to this one!
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 23, 2022 10:40 am Reply with quote
A lot of light novels can be astoundingly overwritten, which may be what bugs you. I think this one is actually pretty well-written as these things go, but if the manga keeps up its current level of faithfulness, you won't ever have to find out!
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 28, 2022 8:04 pm Reply with quote
Princess_Irene wrote:
A lot of light novels can be astoundingly overwritten, which may be what bugs you. I think this one is actually pretty well-written as these things go, but if the manga keeps up its current level of faithfulness, you won't ever have to find out!


Not them but for me it's the opposite. I've enjoyed the manga so I tried picking up the LN and just couldn't get through it. LN writing is either overwritten or far too dry and direct and this falls under the latter category. The manga author's decision to repurpose a lot of the third person descriptions and general writing into Connie's narration and observations honestly helps tremendously and turns her into more of a living character.

The decompressed nature of the pacing works a lot better too. In the LN, this stuff with Pamela lasts for about a chapter or two whereas here, the pacing means everything is given weight. Connie's situation feels more desperate and hits a lot harder as you see how dragged out her ordeal is. And the art manages to take these bits of cattiness and make them feel genuinely menacing and unnerving. In the LN it feels like "okay, Pamela got hers" but in the manga, that same scene is now almost horrifying. In a way, these nobles are monsters who are about to (socially) tear Pamela limb from limb and the way they're drawn—hungry, bestial and almost demonic—reflects that well.

In fact, I'd argue that Momoyama Hinase is a straight up better artist than Yuu-nagi which really helps give everything in the manga that extra punch.

For me it's not even a contest. The story itself is great in either version but the manga is a genuinely better way of experiencing it and if (or more likely, when) an anime adaptation comes, I hope it draws more from the manga's presentation.
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