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Review – A Gentle Noble’s Vacation Recommendation, vol 10

Posted August 29, 2025 by Nicky in Reviews / 0 Comments

Review – A Gentle Noble’s Vacation Recommendation, vol 10

A Gentle Noble's Vacation Recommendation

by Misaki, Momochi, Lamp Magonote, Sando

Genres: Fantasy, Manga
Pages: 162
Series: A Gentle Noble's Vacation Recommendation #10
Rating: four-stars
Synopsis:

When Lizel mysteriously finds himself in a city that bears odd similarities to his own but clearly isn't, he quickly comes to terms with the unlikely truth: this is an entirely different world. Even so, laid-back Lizel isn't the type to panic. He immediately sets out to learn more about this strange place, and to help him do so, hires a seasoned adventurer named Gil as his tour guide and protector.

Until he's able to find a way home, Lizel figures this is a perfect opportunity to explore a new way of life adventuring as part of a guild. After all, he's sure he'll go home eventually... might as well enjoy the otherworldly vacation for now!

Volume ten of A Gentle Noble’s Vacation Recommendation features Lizel’s comeuppance for scaring Gil and Eleven: he’s banned from reading! This is cruel and unusual punishment, and regardless of how cute the moments are when Lizel begs Gil for reprieve, I feel for him.

The chocolate shop contract is kinda fun too: I love that Gil begrudgingly comes to visit them at work, but won’t even go inside, because ewww, chocolate. (All the more for Eleven, right?!)

Compared to the Variant Ruler storyline, this book is a bit of a break from all of that, just featuring the group hanging out, and explaining a bit more of their adventure to see the elves. I love that Lizel got them to attack Gil, and that Gil seemed to love the challenge (and could stand up to it).

I wonder when there’ll be another volume… I love these characters so much.

Rating: 4/5 (“really liked it”)

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Review – A Gentle Noble’s Vacation Recommendation, vol 9

Posted July 31, 2025 by Nicky in Reviews / 0 Comments

Review – A Gentle Noble’s Vacation Recommendation, vol 9

A Gentle Noble's Vacation Recommendation

by Misaki, Momochi, Sando, Lamp Magonote

Genres: Fantasy, Manga
Pages: 160
Series: A Gentle Noble's Vacation Recommendation #9
Rating: four-stars
Synopsis:

When Lizel mysteriously finds himself in a city that bears odd similarities to his own but clearly isn't, he quickly comes to terms with the unlikely truth: this is an entirely different world. Even so, laid-back Lizel isn't the type to panic. He immediately sets out to learn more about this strange place, and to help him do so, hires a seasoned adventurer named Gil as his tour guide and protector.

Until he's able to find a way home, Lizel figures this is a perfect opportunity to explore a new way of life adventuring as part of a guild. After all, he's sure he'll go home eventually... might as well enjoy the otherworldly vacation for now!

Volume 9 of A Gentle Noble’s Vacation Recommendation felt maybe a tad disjointed, because we’re lacking information about events until a flashback/explanation later, and this happens twice (once about how Lizel plans to defend the people, and then also about the promise he makes Gil make).

That said, it’s a great conclusion to this little arc of the attack on Marcade, and we see a lot of Lizel’s scheming. And it’s to be hoped that in the next volume, Gil and Eleven give him whatfor about it, for goodness’ sake.

There are some really fun moments between the trio, though most of the focus is on Lizel’s cleverness and his efforts to thwart Variant Ruler. The elves kind of come out of nowhere, and I felt kinda like I’d missed something, but they were technically somewhat foreshadowed…

Not my favourite volume in some ways, but I enjoyed it as always.

Rating: 4/5 (“really liked it”)

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