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REVIEW: The Honor Student at Magic High School GN 1




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Vaisaga



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 03, 2015 11:41 am Reply with quote
I only like Miyuki to a normal degree so I much prefer how this spin off gives more screen time to Honoka and Shizuku. The artwork is iffy in some places but overall it's nice and certainly better than the art of one of the other adaptations.
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SilverTalon01



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 03, 2015 3:53 pm Reply with quote
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It is a bit off-putting that both Sato's and Mori's commentary in the back of the book makes it sound as if this is somehow a “lesser” version of the story, generally because it focuses on the girls, but in all truth that doesn't actually affect the book; it's simply an irritant for some readers.


I'd say they're probably calling it a "lesser" version of the story because Miyuki has a significantly smaller part in literally every single important event in the story, and this follows around Miyuki (and the girls).

Doesn't necessarily mean everyone will enjoy it less.

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Interestingly her family tries their hardest to cover it up, partly because of laws against magic use against another person, but we get the feeling that there's a reputation and/or family image issue at play as well. Since Tatsuya is generally reviled by the family, Miyuki must therefore be their big hope, and it looks as if any steps necessary will be taken to protect her and preserve her image.


It isn't really about her image or reputation; they just don't want attention drawn to her because they don't want anyone looking too deeply. In fact, her using magic isn't against the law.
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Glupscher



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 05, 2015 6:52 pm Reply with quote
So they basically translated the Japanese title to the complete opposite. Rettousei = bad/underachieving/inferior student, and suddenly it's honor student? Or am I missing a joke here? Anyway, I absolutely love the Light Novels, and to an extent the anime, but the manga is pretty bad imo. The anime pretty much focuses on the action, the light novels focus on the setting and technical details, while the manga doesn't really excel anywhere. It's still worth a read tho.
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Vaisaga



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 05, 2015 11:55 pm Reply with quote
This is a spin off manga focused on Miyuki (hence the Honor Student), not one of the novel adaptation manga.
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SilverTalon01



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PostPosted: Sun Dec 06, 2015 2:36 am Reply with quote
Glupscher wrote:
So they basically translated the Japanese title to the complete opposite. Rettousei = bad/underachieving/inferior student, and suddenly it's honor student? Or am I missing a joke here?


Yeah, I think you're misunderstanding. The Japanese title for the main series, both anime and LN, is Rettousei. For some dumb reason, the official English translation is Irregular (which isn't even close to the same...). This is suppose to refer to Tatsuya who is the main focus of the series.

Anyway, like you said, honor student would be the opposite of Rettousei, but that wasn't a translation error. The Japanese title of this spin off uses Yuutousei which is suppose to refer to Miyuki.

Although, at one point in the afterwards, the author actually says jokingly that he should change it to Yuutousei because Rettousei doesn't really describe Tatsuya anymore.
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