Well, I didn't know this was based on a light novel. A Gentle Noble's Vacation Recommendation was actually different and not what I expected. This is a very slow and cryptic manga! I love the rhythm and the slow and odd pace of it not to forget that the main characters' relationship is...somewhat weirdly romantic in a sense. Lizel finds himself mysteriously in a totally different time and place. He doesn't panic, but decides to take this as a vacation and learn from the new place only to meet an adventurer, Gil. These two pair up and Lizel wants to become a guild adventurer too and somehow he knows how this world works to some extent. The setting felt cliched at first, but Momochi builds the whole thing in a way that you don't know what is happening and why. That's so refreshing!

The art is OK, nothing spectacular, but quite steady. Perhaps there's too many talking heads when you consider that this is a fantasy story and backgrounds should play a bigger part. Otherwise this is quite fine and interesting and I do hope Momochi can pull this off. The cover is great surely!

Definitely enjoyed this. I read a lot of manga and graphic novels and this immediately went to the top tier of my reads. Will definitely recommend this for purchase in my library.

The book opens with Lizel in an alternate world. He recognizes it very quickly and assumes that his king has sent him there for a reason. He is not naive but appears so to the people around him. So he hires a B-level adventurer, Gil. Hanging out with Gill will help Lizel figure out the world more quickly as well as keeping him safe.
The story was absolutely adorable and I loved the idea of it. Lizel is so unfailingly optimistic and blithe but, when we see his skills, we realize that he has reason to be. Loved the references to MMORPGs. Not a ton of action but made me happy to read.

Four and a half stars
This book comes out August 11th
ARC kindly provided by Diamond Book Distributors and NetGalley
Opinions are my own

I loved the fantasy elements of this graphic novel — not to mention the beautiful artwork. A wonderful reading experience.

This is the start of a manga series that very much feels like a video game from the start . You're with Lizel as he has begun to explore the new world he has wound up in and meets some very interesting guys.

However, when I say it reads like a video game I mean the tutorials. Even when he's registering with the guild it reads like you're going to be told where to find tutorials again if you get stuck. And that was kind of dull.

But the art is pretty and the characters were fun. I enjoyed getting to know them and getting the chance to preview this series.

This manga was super cute. It reminded me a little bit of Magi and Fairy Tail. It took me a little while to understand the guild system and to get invested in the story, but once I got into it, it was amazing.

The artwork in this manga is incredible and I loved the two main characters. They both have such opposite personalities, but together they make a really interesting and fun team. I ship them together and every one of their interactions made me so happy.

I was approved to review a digital review copy of this book on NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This review will be cross-posted on my book blog, Bookmarked, and Goodreads.

Thank you Diamond Book and NetGalley for sending me an eARC of this new manga! I was attracted by the premise and the art style, as I thought it a fresh slice-of-life spin on the Isekai genre featuring a vacation rather than panic, distress and life-or-death quests. While overall enjoyable, the first volume in the series presented some issues that prevented me from fully appreciating the story.

WHAT I LIKED

The art style is gorgeous. Detailed, expressive - a pleasure to look at. There is a lot of detail, dynamism and personality coming through in the drawing style, which made the manga particularly enjoyable to read!

Like I said, I was really excited about the fresh spin on the Isekai genre. It was refreshing to see a protagonist who, instead of panicking or getting into trouble immediately is level-headed and carefree enough to think about enjoying his break from the ordinary! 

I'm intrigued by Lizel. He's definitely hiding something - some secret or some skill - that will hopefully propel the narrative forward in the next volumes.

WHAT I LIKED A LITTLE LESS

I had two main issues and one minor issue with this volume: plot, character and time.

Plot-wise... there isn't much? Plot, I mean. There isn't a clear sense of tension or progression towards a goal; just events happening one after the other. It really felt like the story lacked direction or purpose. The city and the two worlds, too, feel anonymous.

Similarly, characters are disorienting in that the readers don't get any insight into their motivations or their lives. They just sort of meet and move on. For instance, towards the end, Lizel compares his companion to his king, but that comparison holds no weight since we know nothing about the king to make any sense out of it. The lack of drive on the characters' part negatively impacts the plot as a whole as a consequence.

Time progression is not clear. It always looks like it's either midday or morning: how much time has passed in the first volume, a day? A week? The manga would be easier to navigate with more time variety in scenes and temporal markers indicating the passage of time (e.g. "later", "the next week" etc).

Thank you to the publisher for giving me this copy in exchange for an honest review!

I thought this was ok. It started off with the coloured pages and I was shook and wanted to read everything. But the story kind of dulled down throughout the manga. I had little interest in finishing it but I'm glad I did because the ending was quite good again. The middle part felt quite like a "I don't know what to do now so we got to fill some pages." type of thing.

I really liked the characters and I thought they were very fun to read with and about however eventually they got quite dull as well and one of them very annoying in my opinion.

This manga wasn't at all bad I just didn't really enjoy it as much as I should have probably.

I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I enjoyed reading this manga and story... at least Volume 1 of the story. The story follows Lizel who is transported to a world that’s not his. However, he is able to speak the language and apparently still has a ton of money in which is can buy an entire bookstore... The world is very similar to his own enough that he understands the customs and what is going on around him. He quickly partners up with Gil, a moody adventurer, and they take on requests around the town to try to move up through the ranks.

Lizel is presented as a happy, calm, mysterious nobleman but you can obviously see that he is hiding something. Gil is grumpy but I liked it. He was a good balance to Lizel's character. The story has not-so-subtle hints that a relationship between these characters is in the cards for the future but was not explored yet in Volume 1.

The artwork is beautiful and the story and narration is easy to understand. I look forward to Volume 2.

I really liked the art, they are really pretty and the story is interesting but I wish it was longer, I can't wait to read the next volumes! It shows great potential, it was a quick and fun read.

This new manga series is D&D meets The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue. Lizel is transported to a new country, to acquaint himself with the new land, he hires B-level adventurer Gil. With Gil's help, Lizel also joins the adventurers' guild and must complete tasks in order to rise through the ranks. But Lizel's experiences, linguistic abilities, and technology from another world give him a leg up. And perhaps the naive noble will charm the pants off grumpy Gil-- or at least charm him into true friendship.

The ARC is a bit confusing-- and I can't tell if that is from how it was transferred for the digital reading experience and some pages made it out of order and/or some are missing or if I'm struggling more than usual with the manga format. Teens who want adventure are likely to enjoy this new series, but not much happens, action-wise in this first volume, so I'd recommend waiting to purchase for your library until more volumes have been published so that you may provide a small chunk of stories for your YA readers.

This was really lovely and sweet! I adored the art style so much, and I wish it had been longer because I'm already ready for more. I didn't realize it was an adaptation of a light novel series, but now I want to look into the source material because I could see this being the type of story I would really enjoy reading the original version of! It reminded me of so many JRPG games I've played over the years and that's a feeling that I wish more books gave me. ♥

*** I”ve received this ARC in exchange for an honest review ***

A refreshing manga that I really enjoyed reading! It combats the typical isekai trope of Earth to another world by adding a mystery of where the new world is in relation to the MC’s original world.

The art is fantastic. It’s definitely more of a BL-type manga, but it doesn’t detract from the curious team up between the noble looking dude and the powerful adventurer. I’m not usually a BL-genre person which is why I point this out.

I think for a person looking for a more laid back isekai that’s not a total harem or power play may find this more to their liking.

I'll start with the positive. The art is really nice and I like how the clean lines manage to keep the story going despite being light on detail.
However, the story focuses so much on setting up mysteries that (at least in this volume) you don't get to know anything about the characters or even what the plot actually is.
It might just be that the first volume wasn't enough pages to fully present the story, but I left with way more questions than answers. I get that the mystery of the noble's "vacation" is the whole point of the plot. I really do. I just feel like I didn't get enough information to actually care about him.

And after that negativeness... Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the early read.

Loved the character design here, and it's a cute beginning. Basically Lizel is a noble who tells us he was just standing in his room one day and then boom, he was suddenly in another world very much like his own, but clearly not. Being a resourceful guy, he quickly find a way to make money, first by selling something, and then by hiring a guy to help him be an adventurer. There are some D&D elements: adventuring parties, labyrinths, etc. and there is enough mystery behind Lizel, his new partner Gil and the world around them to keep it interesting.

This was super cute, and honestly there's not much I can say about it because manga are pretty short overall. I like the art, I liked the characters and I loved the story and when I felt like the author was explaining too much they actually stopped right at the moment where I felt like I might get bored. It was pretty perfect actually, the only thing keeping it from 5 stars is that it wasn't very action packed. Everything was a little too convenient and fell into place perfectly there was no excitement.

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A perfect entrance to a beautiful and imaginative world.
Now its nowhere close to reinventing the wheel, but as long as those are not your expectations and you just want a cozy medieval inspired story with likable characters and delightful adventures.
Also its impossible to review this and not being how BEAUTIFUL the art work is. Breath taking with a enough attention to detail to keep you entertained for many pages.

The only sad thing now is to wait for the next volume which I already want for myself.

Overall great story great amazing characters and beautiful art.

What would you do if you suddenly find yourself stranded on a different world? How would you haber the knowledge to survive and to mingle minewhile you want for your master to magicly retrieve you?

Those and much more are the challenges that Lizel has to face when arriving to Parteda, the capital of an strange land. But his luck (or something quite similar) never runs out, this time in the shape of
Gil - a mercenary/adventurer - that would become his partner and protector in what seems to be an unconventional friendship (?!) and a career in the arts of questing.

A sort of "forced vacations" that would intertwined the fate of both characters and would keep the reader enchanted by the author's art style, amused by the quest and expecting the coming events.

Review of an ARC provided free by Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

It was an okay book with a fresh take on the isekai genre. I liked the dynamic between Gil & Lizel and can see fans shipping them together. I also think that Lizel is secretly overpowered since he was a "Noble" in his world and I might buy the next volume to find out more. However, I felt like the current world in the manga was kinda boring and flat so it didn't really grab my attention too much. The artwork is nice and clean and what originally attracted me to this series. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Thank you Netgalley for providing me with a copy in exchange for an honest review!

I want to thanks Netgalley for this manga, and i will be honest in my review.

So the manga its about a noble man liziel, that one day whitout explanation arrived to a new world or so it seems, in this world he meet an adventurer b-rank class, named Gil, he offer a job for him to be his bodyguard, guide and other stuff. Gil helped him to be an adventur because that way he can see this new world .

One thing that bother me and i think it was the only one was that Liziel was already in this new world when the manga started, i could not see his world first meet him before whatever happen to him happen, but ommiting that the story was good, it reminded me the video games that i used to play, like the fire emble, and other of adventure, i liked that vibe. Other thing that i love ws the esthetic of the manga, everything was so beautiful and well made.

How to last chapter of this volumen ended make me want to read the second one, and know whats its going to happen to characters.
For me the story its good, the only things that bother me was how started, i would have liked to see how Liziel was in his world and the show us this new one, maybe in the other volumen the author would show us.

For me this manga deserve 4.5 star out of 5