Terrence's Reviews > A Lily Blooms in Another World

Kind of a middling one-shot. It had its moments, and you can feel the slight flavor of Sexiled in it (in particular the whole two women discovering that their world is misogynistic and fighting against the norms aspect shines through in parts). But there's a lot of very passive scenes; lots of skipping scenes and only talking about them in retrospect (Miyako gets tuckered out from the farm work and stick gathering that we never see; Miyako gets flustered when she sees Fuuka's beauty in the bath which we only hear about after they're both long out of the bath; even the ending, there's a fade to black / wake up and boringly describe what kind of happened). It's a pretty small scale plot too with not a ton of detail on the setting or scenery. It started in a way that seemed like it could get interesting too as Miyako performs a ritual announcing Fuuka's arrival to her relative's land that involves lighting a fire pit to alert nearby creatures. But then it just got dull. And it wasn't just "cute slice of life", it was just boring. The most exciting bits were healing a little girl by gathering a flower and learning how to make an indoor bath.

Miyako isn't that desirable either, she's just less of a POS than Fuuka's relatives and Klaas "narcissist" Reinhardt. It's your typical make the hero look good by making everyone else look terrible. Her best attributes are she's cheerful and got that "Bakarina" loveable dunce attitude to her (and I guess she can cook). I still don't get how Fuuka is supposed to fall for her. I wouldn't feel excitement in her situation from these 14 days.

It's definitely got some fun comedy moments, but nothing that will really stick with me.

Magic exists in this world, but we only really get to see the medicinal advantages to white magic. War also exists in this world, but we're far removed from that. The plot adds convenient elements when it needs them without having fully set them up (something something sacrifice ritual for a river project we never mentioned before; something something controlling an Undine makes you some high class of noble should you so choose which we never set up).

There's a lot of good ideas. I like the idea of the flavor text everyone ignored for what was in the actual plot of the Otome game becoming integral to getting an unintended ending. I love the idea of running away with the villainess, but maybe less the idea of lazing about in a house for 14 days. I really wanted to like this one, it just wasn't that interesting in the end.