Rating (Out of 5): ~3
Publisher: Shojo Beat (VIZ Media)
Release Date: May 2019
Volumes: 6+
Spoilers?: Light.
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Goodreads Synopsis:
Faced with the choice of being married to a strange spirit or being made into dinner, Aoi creates a third option for herself!
Aoi Tsubaki inherited her grandfather’s ability to see spirits—and his massive debt to them! Now she’s been kidnapped and taken to Kakuriyo, the spirit world, to make good on his bill. Her options: marry the head of the inn her grandfather trashed, or get eaten by ayakashi. But Aoi isn’t the type to let spirits push her around, and she’s determined to redeem her grandfather’s IOU on her own terms!
Aoi wasn’t the only orphan her grandfather Shiro took in. Before she went to live with him, he rescued the spider demons Akatsuki and Suzuran and put them to work as unpaid servants! Now Aoi is questioning everything she thought she knew about her upbringing. What was Shiro up to? And more importantly, does that make the spider demons family?!
Aoi Tsubaki inherited her grandfather’s ability to see spirits—and his massive debt to them! Now she’s been kidnapped and taken to Kakuriyo, the spirit world, to make good on his bill. Her options: marry the head of the inn her grandfather trashed, or get eaten by ayakashi. But Aoi isn’t the type to let spirits push her around, and she’s determined to redeem her grandfather’s IOU on her own terms!
Aoi wasn’t the only orphan her grandfather Shiro took in. Before she went to live with him, he rescued the spider demons Akatsuki and Suzuran and put them to work as unpaid servants! Now Aoi is questioning everything she thought she knew about her upbringing. What was Shiro up to? And more importantly, does that make the spider demons family?!
Review:
Aoi ends up helping this spider-yokai couple at the inn. There's
tension and misunderstandings, and one of them works at the inn. Aoi
gets between it and so tries to help them resolve their issues. This
involves going back to the human world, which is dangerous for the
yokai, and could mean an escape for Aoi.
It says a lot that Aoi decides to go back to the yokai inn. She's
seemed to have grown closer to the ogre, as well; they've formed some
kind of friendly understanding through all this.
The end of this volume felt a bit like an ending, even though not
much has been resolved. It felt like Aoi had accepted her position,
that she's at the inn for good and will continue finding her place
there, whatever it is.
But it's clearly not the end, I have two more volumes to read right
now. Honestly, the characters and plot felt rather forgettable to me
in this volume. I'm very meh about this series, but I guess I'm going
to try for a bit longer.
A review copy was provided by the publisher, VIZ Media, for an honest review. Thank you so, so much!
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