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Lycoris Recoil: Recovery Days

Author: Asaura

Illustrator: Imigimuru

Label: Dengeki Bunko

Release Date: 8 March 2024

My Score: 4/5

This a new short story collection for Lycoris Recoil. While the title is Recovery Days, I feel like there are only a couple of stories here that really fit that theme...

In the first story, Chisato discovers that Takina doesn't understand the appeal of going to the cinemas and makes it her mission to fix that. It's short and sweet. What's not to like?

In the second story, Ito drags Chisato and Takina in to model for her new manga. I have to say, even though it's been almost two years since the anime aired, Chika Anzai's and Shion Wakayama's performances are so iconic that it was still easy for me to recall their voices while reading their lines. This one had a few fun moments, but also had a lot of descriptions of guns, which I found boring.

I've got to be honest: I did not pay much attention to the next story as it was not Takina and Chisato-centric, and focused on a character who, to my knowledge, has no connection to any existing characters or events from the series. It focuses on a man who has left a yakuza group and is intent on getting revenge on the killer of the head of the yakuza group. The best part of it is an illustration of the girls going undercover in disguises.

The fourth story more than makes up for it in ChisaTaki content. In this one, Chisato gets sick and Takina looks after her. It's so sweet and cute. It is what I imagined when I heard the words "Recovery Days" and is everything I wanted from this collection.

The next story is Fuki-centric (!) and follows Sakura and Fuki on a mission. As excited as I was to see a Fuki-centric story, I have to say this one didn't appeal to me much. A lot of it is gun battles, which isn't something that I like to read in LN format. Still, it was nice to see Fuki again and so good to finally have a story where she's the focus. I'm still shocked there hasn't been a Fuki manga spin-off or something yet.

The final story is similar to the zombie story from Ordinary Days, except this time it's playing with horror movie tropes. Takina and Chisato wake up in a lodge with no memory of how they got there and soon discover they are being chased by a man with a machete. They quickly decide that it's a dream, and discuss various horror movie tropes while trying to survive. There's a weird thing in this story: the black guy dies first trope is not mentioned here. The reason why this is weird is that Mika is in this story, and true to the trope, Mika dies first. It's not even lampshaded. Instead, Chisato and Takina reason that Mika died first because he's the sexiest. I mean, yes, he is, but it's weird that this trope is not brought up at all when it's such a well-known one. Anyway, this one was okay. I don't think it was as fun as the zombie story, but it has some good ChisaTaki moments.

The volume wraps up by going back to that first story, showing Chisato and Takina after they watch the movie. It's cute and a good way to end the volume.

This was a good collection of stories that reminded me of how much I enjoyed the anime and how much of a good pairing Chisato and Takina are. I'm not sure that a lot of the stories really fit the theme of "Recovery Days", but it was a good time regardless. Also, I really appreciated how many illustrations there were in this volume. Every chapter had at least one illustration to accompany it and they were all top quality and well placed. I recently read the Frieren light novel short story collection, where the cover was the only real illustration, so I appreciated this a lot.

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✨ LYCORIS RECOIL: CHISATO E TAKINA TORNERANNO CON UNA SERIE DI CORTI SLICE OF LIFE!

Esatto, il nuovo progetto che ci avevano anticipato l'anno scorso si è rivelato essere una miniserie di 6 episodi dall'impronta, all'apparenza, più cozy e rilassata. Cosa fra l'altro gradita, da parte mia.

Ogni puntata sarà diretta da un regista differente, che si occuperà anche dello storyboarding. Shingo Adachi, ovviamente seguirà la propria creatura in qualità di supervisore, mentre il character designer Imigimuru (Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!, This Art Club Has a Problem!), per l'occasione, aiuterà anche con la sceneggiatura.

Se vi chiedete dove recuperare la serie originale, trovate tutti i 13 episodi sottotitolati in streaming su Crunchyroll.

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Chisato and Takina artwork drawn by Imigimuru, the character designer of Lycoris Recoil!

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by いみぎむる@imigimuru

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Make Heroine ga Osugiru! Vol.6 (light novel)