{"id":10020,"date":"2022-12-12T11:22:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T11:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=10020"},"modified":"2022-12-12T11:44:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T11:44:33","slug":"dahlia-in-bloom-crafting-a-fresh-start-with-magical-tools-1-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/dahlia-in-bloom-crafting-a-fresh-start-with-magical-tools-1-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Dahlia in Bloom: Crafting a Fresh Start With Magical Tools #1-5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Madougushi Dahlia wa Utsumukanai<\/a> turned out to be a fairly entertaining pseudo-Cinderella<\/em> story.<\/p>\n

It splits its time between relationship development, both with the central couple and assorted side characters, and occasionally technical crafting segments not too dissimilar from Kajiya de Hajimeru<\/a>‘s. Which is to say it classifies cooking as a crafting discipline.<\/p>\n

No joke, at least 30% or so of each novel is food and drink-related with the main saving grace being that they are not pagecount-starved. So you still get quite a bit of magical tool making, amusing character interactions, business development, and class-based anxiety.<\/p>\n

Only real potential issue with it is how the two leads doggedly insist on considering themselves ‘just friends’ despite being a couple in every way that matters… though personally I kind of find that refreshing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Madougushi Dahlia wa Utsumukanai turned out to be a fairly entertaining pseudo-Cinderella story. It splits its time between relationship development, both with the central couple and assorted side characters, and occasionally technical crafting segments not too dissimilar from Kajiya de Hajimeru‘s. Which is to say it classifies cooking as a crafting discipline. No joke, at least 30% or so of each novel is food and drink-related with the main saving grace being that they are not pagecount-starved. So you still get quite a bit of magical tool making, amusing character interactions, business development, and class-based anxiety. Only real potential issue with it is how the two leads doggedly insist on considering themselves ‘just friends’ despite being a couple in every way that matters… though personally I kind of find that refreshing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[28,594,595,64,510],"class_list":["post-10020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-related","tag-fantasy","tag-hisaya-amagishi","tag-madougushi-dahlia","tag-romance","tag-young-adult-novel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}