This unfortunately falls flat for me. The story is a bit too slow for my liking, and I really wasn’t able to get into the characters.

The Failure at God School, Vol. 1 is a fun new manga series following a young girl who faces the challenge of being a god with no powers in a school full of gods! When Nagi saves a lost child from a powerful negative force, a "Himiko" or god, nominates her to study at a school for gods-thing is she's never manifested any sort of power! As Nagi begins to make friends with the students in her classes, the mystery of her power begins to unfold.

This was a sweet fantasy story that featured friendships, magical powers, mystery, and a fun school challenge! I really enjoyed this first installment and am interested in reading the next volume in the series. I highly recommend this for teens+ as the story features teen aged characters and I think the challenges the main character faces could be relatable to the teen age range.

Thank you so much to NetGalley and Yen Press for providing an ARC in exchange for an honest review!

Thanks to NetGalley and the author for granting me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest rating.

Its like MHA if izuku didn't get his powers! A great first volume. Amazing art and story line!
My favorite character is the outcast who our mc adopts! However, all the main characters are great! (There's even a punch able one so we are well rounded)

I am incredibly grateful to Yen Press for accepting my request to read this manga. My request was based on two factors. One, it is written by the author of The Apothecary Diaries. Two, gods. The concept of superhumans being granted government contracts for god status at shrines really fit my reading style.

Nagi needs a himiko for her family shrine since the passing of her grandmother. She is dedicated to the quest to lure a god to the rundown shrine, her perfect attendance, and her twin brother. This way of living has made her into a tenacious student, and she catches the eye of a god and gets an invitation to himiko school. Not at all the way Nagi expected to find a himiko for her shrine. Unfortunately, no one knows her divine power and she is the failure at god school. Her group of friends, the divine powers, and multiple plot intrigues were all a joy to experience.

I look forward to the continuation of this series. Hopefully it is published long enough to warrant an anime some day as well. I need more of this series in my life.

Set in modern-day Japan, if heroes with unique (and sometimes strange) powers were categorized as “gods.” Children with these abilities are trained in special schools to go out into the world and use them to develop their skills. High marks for the likeability of the main female character and her hidden, unknown abilities. Outcasts come together, and an alliance forms a formidable team of friends. This is the first installment, but it sets up a great start with solid characters, problems, and a foundational world of rules and believability.

I’m giving it 3.8 / 5 stars because the word flow is difficult to follow, and sometimes, I skipped sections because the font style and placement were annoying. I read it as an e-book and am used to reading anime from right to left and turning pages from right to left, but the book was not set up this way, which made it jarring. I would still consider this a fun young adult graphic novel to read and recommend to this crowd. I anticipate that my interest will improve with future novels.

This is an honest review sponsored through NetGalley.

When I saw this new shojo manga series by Natsu Hyuuga, author of the Apothecary Diaries, was getting an English translation I squeed!

In this world gods are basically people with superpowers, and there are enough of them that there are special schools to help harness your powers. Nagi ends up at such a school, only no one (including her!) knows what her power is or why she has been sent there!

Volume one gives us a great intro to all of Nagi’s schoolmates, her family, and a mysterious god who manages to show up exactly when Nagi needs him (future love interest maybe?!)

This was an entertaining read and I can not wait to continue the series!

Natsu Hyuuga (author of The Apothecary Diaries) always does a really good job of very quickly establishing characters so they can move on to plot stuff with enough of a basis to build on. Nagi is a doer who’s already written herself off as “no one special” except it’s proven over and over again that she’s competent in non-magical and non-specialist tasks. We’ve also got a solid cast of characters in the first volume.

Plot-wise, it’s pretty light, but since this is only the first volume and the characters are well-defined, I’d say this is a solid start to the series!

Oh my gosh, I loved it and I can't wait for the new chapters! The story is very promising and the art style is so cute <3

The first volume is more of an introduction, so we'll se how it goes from now on.

I'd like to send my thanks to Netgalley, the publisher, and the author for providing a free pdf version of this manga in exchange for an honest review.

In Nagi’s Japan, people with special powers can become gods if they train in god school. They then serve in family shrines and bring prosperity to their neighbourhood. Nagi’s family shrine hasn’t had a god since her grandmother, who was their god, died, and their village is slowly going to ruin. Her older brother could be a god, but he’s a shut-in and won’t attend the god school. He only appears as a plush toy he’s possessing, speaking in Nagi’s mind.

One day, another family’s potential god, a little boy, goes missing, and Nagi happens to find him. But a malevolent spirit is trying to hide him, and she needs to fight mentally for them to escape, something she’s learned in order to keep her brother out of her mind. A god notices this, and days later, she finds herself enrolled in the god school.

She doesn’t have an auspicious start. Others have studied there since they were children and she knows nothing. No one knows what her power might be, and no matter how much the teachers try, nothing manifests. But she’s not helpless and she has her moments. And she makes friends. That comes in handy when their year is sent on a field trip to survive on the mountains. The volume ends in the middle of the trip.

This was a nice start for a series aimed at younger end of YA readers, but a bit hasty and confusing. There’s a light novel too and the artist mentions in the afterword that they had to leave a lot out, and maybe that shows. There’s no romance yet—Nagi is in junior high—although the young god has potential for romantic interest. But it was a fun read and the art was good. I’d read more.

The original story is by the author of The Apothecary Diaries, but this is nothing like that. The vibe is different, lighter and there are no mysteries, and the story is aimed at younger readers. Artist is different.

I thought this was really compelling. I had fun reading this, and I enjoyed the concept and the characters. I really liked the art style as well, though there were some minor issues with the translations but nothing enough to pull me out of the story. Really fun and I am excited for more!

Recommended readers: high schoolers, Apothecary diaries. mythology fans, cozy readers (at least this first book.)

Display ideas: fantasy high school, paired with non-fiction book on Shintoism, athletic lead characters,

Overall I liked this manga, and I recomend that any fan of apothecary diaries currently waiting for the next edition in that series to try this.

Thank you NetGalley for an eARC of this new series!

I got really excited about this when I saw that the author was Natsu Hyuuga. Apothecary Diaries is currently one of my favorite series. This first volume was a lot of fun and the series has a lot of potential. I'm not sure it can be compared very much to Apothecary Diaries. It has a pretty different vibe. Although I feel like Tsukuyomi is going to end up pretty similar to Jinshi.

I love how feisty the main character is. She's a lot of fun. The side characters are also great and I'm looking forward to getting to know them more.

The main character is a young girl just trying to survive in a world where those with powers are considered gods. After her grandmother, the temple’s god, passes away, the temple is left in need of a new one. One day, after rescuing a missing boy, something unexpected happens, and she finds herself enrolled in a school she never believed she belonged to. If she has powers, she has no idea what they are.

The artwork in this story is beautifully done and complements the narrative perfectly.

This was a good introduction to a manga. There were some minor grammatical errors that wasn't translated properly, but didn't detract from the story. I will be reading the light novel to this as well and can't wait for the next volume.

Thank you to NetGalley and Yen Press for the e-arc!

I am a fan of Natsu Hyuuga's work with Apothecary Diaries and I was excited when I saw they had a new series. The Failure at God School follows the journey of Nagi, a high schooler living in a world where gods and Himiko exist. While in search of a god, she is recruited into God school to hone her powers. I think this story starts off very promising but halfway through it fizzles out. I liked Nagi as a character but she was not carrying the story compared to the side characters. I also felt there were some time jumps that made it hard for me to keep up with the plot itself. I can say this may be a problem that only affects me so definitely still give it a chance if you like the synopsis or the author.