Chronicles of The Hardships of Komachi in The Sengoku Era

No cover — Rosebay (Kyouchikutou) 夾竹桃: Chronicles of The Hardships of Komachi in The Sengoku Era

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One fateful day, a girl time slipped into the Sengoku Era. It was an abrupt enough event to be dubbed god’s whim, done to sate hellish boredom.

The girl has no power to change the world. She was a very ordinary, common, and plain girl that can be found anywhere. And that girl can do no more than a single thing.

Survive the Sengoku Era ——– that’s all.

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Kirk Moodey reviewed Chronicles of The Hardships of Komachi in The Sengoku Era by Rosebay (Kyouchikutou) 夾竹桃

Time traveling Japanese farm girl with pet wolves

4 stars

The summary is a dirty lie. She knows how to do one thing - farm. Although I guess that is technically surviving, it /does/ have the power to change the world.

Due to having access to only a partially translated English version of uncertain legality, this is a 'did not actually finish'. I'm sure I could painfully blunder my way through a machine translation, but I'd rather not. The brief read I had was enjoyable and had only some very one sided romance, which seemed to be a plot convenience for getting the main character cotton seeds. I liked reading about how something as simple as knowing how to cultivate mushrooms could make you rich, and I enjoyed reading about farming, history and forestry, which the author seems to have some actual knowledge of, although it was definitely clear that sometimes the author went a little further than their actual …

The summary is a dirty lie. She knows how to do one thing - farm. Although I guess that is technically surviving, it /does/ have the power to change the world.

Due to having access to only a partially translated English version of uncertain legality, this is a 'did not actually finish'. I'm sure I could painfully blunder my way through a machine translation, but I'd rather not. The brief read I had was enjoyable and had only some very one sided romance, which seemed to be a plot convenience for getting the main character cotton seeds. I liked reading about how something as simple as knowing how to cultivate mushrooms could make you rich, and I enjoyed reading about farming, history and forestry, which the author seems to have some actual knowledge of, although it was definitely clear that sometimes the author went a little further than their actual area of expertise so take everything with a grain of salt. I'm guessing this is probably a freebie web novel (not entirely sure - alas, my Japanese is almost nonexistent, and the translator notes didn't say but they did include an author's note in one chapter, which is common for web novels and very rare in actual published novels) and thus without an editor, so I don't demand too much from those except entertainment.

I'm a sucker for time traveler goes back and changes things stories, but too often they don't seem to have any actual plot to them. This one hints at a deeper plot just as I was starting to get bored with the farming, which is a nice relief, but I literately can't say what happened next. The pacing could perhaps be just a touch better, but that's to be expected from this sort of novel.

The wolves are slightly more realistic than some depictions, in that the author gets it correct that they don't really bark, but they still come off as slightly too doggish to me, and too slow - they chase a guy and somehow don't murder him even though wolves are faster than men. Wolves are pretty hard to write correctly, I guess; I see mistakes in writing about them all the time. Still, the novel was free and I have no regrets about it, so I can't complain too much.