The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter

by Kazuki Irodori, Yatsuki Wakutsu

Genres: Fantasy, Manga, Romance
Pages: 176
Series: The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter (manga) #5
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Synopsis:

Tasked with investigating the church, this intrepid bean counter must somehow survive not just the potential political intrigue going on behind the scenes, but also the very air around him! Since magic itself is toxic to Kondou, stepping into a place so inundated could be considered a death sentence...! What's worse, his dashing knight captain, Aresh, gets called away to deal with a dangerous magical beast...

The fifth volume of Kazuki Irodori’s manga adaptation of The Other World’s Books Depend on the Bean Counter (originally a light novel by Yatsuki Wakutsu) is quite fun. Aresh is actually absent for most of the story, though we do see some glimpses of him and what he’s up to (slightly more than in the original light novel, though it doesn’t add new information as such), but we get a very extremely adorable scene where Seiichirou reads his letters… and hugs one tight.

It doesn’t quite get up to the end of volume two of the light novels, so the story has some ways to go, but for those only following via the manga, it does take a step forward, with Seiichirou beginning to accept his feelings for Aresh and understand his position properly.

Aresh’s controlling behaviour is also less of an issue in this volume than some of the others, since they’re apart. Still, that is a potential issue with this series, even if I found it seemed a bit less obtrusive in the light novels. It’s a pretty intrinsic part of the story.

Rating: 4/5 (“really liked it”)