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REVIEW: Sexiled: My Sexist Party Leader Kicked Me Out, So I Teamed Up With a Mythical Sorceress! Nov

Lol, that's a blast from the past - friends haven't used the word "Sexiled" since a couple decades ago

But of course, we had a different meaning for it

(Don't really know how the reviewer gave it an overall A even though giving it a B for art. Do they not average the scores, or does one have more weight or are there unshown categories?)

I had a lot of fun reading both volumes, and even though I'm a guy I could relate to some of the things they went through. My only gripe with it was that it didn't really have a single non-asshole male in either volume that were in more than a cameo. Overall would maybe give it a B or B+.
(Don't really know how the reviewer gave it an overall A even though giving it a B for art. Do they not average the scores, or does one have more weight or are there unshown categories?)

LegitPancake wrote:

I had a lot of fun reading both volumes, and even though I'm a guy I could relate to some of the things they went through. My only gripe with it was that it didn't really have a single non-asshole male in either volume that were in more than a cameo. Overall would maybe give it a B or B+. (Don't really know how the reviewer gave it an overall A even though giving it a B for art. Do they not average the scores, or does one have more weight or are there unshown categories?)

Pretty sure there's no formula, for any of the reviewers, and the "overall" score is assigned as subjectively as any of the others.

I wanted to believe your positive thoughts on this....but I just cannot stop shaking my head at the title. I mean my god these LN names now a days are just becoming ridiculous. I keep finding it harder and harder to give any a chance and take them seriously when it looks like a stoned teenager came up with the title while playing JRPG's.

Psycho 101 wrote:

I wanted to believe your positive thoughts on this....but I just cannot stop shaking my head at the title. I mean my god these LN names now a days are just becoming ridiculous. I keep finding it harder and harder to give any a chance and take them seriously when it looks like a stoned teenager came up with the title while playing JRPG's.

Agreed. And I think the problem lies with the Japanese rights-holders insistence on having a say over the English translation of titles. Hey, I get you need to have some sort of veto over titles, but really, you should probably start listening to localizers a bit more. It's the same kind of dopey refusal (most of the time) to let localizers translate OP and ED lyrics. I just don't get it. Japanese rights holders can be incredibly annoying at times.

Making Laplace spout random French words was a particularly inspired choice.

I have to admit that I'm in two minds about the word "Sexiled," since it's got another meaning in English, as one of the other commentors on here alluded to! On the other hand... it is funny. And I'm pretty sure it's one of the reasons the novel ended up massively selling better in English compared to Japanese.

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Making Laplace spout random French words was a particularly inspired choice.

How exactly? I am a bit worried as a native French speaker.

Frog-kun wrote:

I have to admit that I'm in two minds about the word "Sexiled," since it's got another meaning in English, as one of the other commentors on here alluded to! On the other hand... it is funny. And I'm pretty sure it's one of the reasons the novel ended up massively selling better in English compared to Japanese.

For reference what would a direct translation be of the Japanese title be that make this one, so much more funny that it would cause the difference in sales. Or is it the case that the English version was given a funny title well the Japanese version is just straight to the point what the series is about without being funny at all. Also, great review