This Dungeon Grew Mushrooms WN ch1 - ch68 - Very similar to <I am a spider, so what>. In the plot set up. A monster tries to escape the dungeon and make it in the world, Mushroom in this case. There isn't really a highlight but solid and not too boring adventure. 7/10

<They don't know I'm too young for the adventurer's guild> vol 1 - the ending made my cry so it's better than most. The slow grow, and lack of gradeur is to my liking 8/10

<The Otome Heroine’s Fight for Survival: Volume 5> - My favorite murder-hobo is back with a new arc. Good pacing so far, but I feel like there are too many reincarnators amongst the side characters that affect the story negatively. The pace of the volume itself is very fast, and there is a lot happening, including the deaths of long-time featured characters. And then it ends on an interesting setup/cliffhanger for the next volume. Great series.

<The Twelve Kingdoms Book 1> - I hate MC. It goes beyond just disliking her. I think she is battling it out with the Mushoku Tensei MC for my #1 spot for most hated MC. The problem with that is that she is suffering through the entirety of the whole book, and I don't care one way or another. She could die right there at the end, and I would just think "great, next volumes MC is hopefully better". And if it were the Rudeus type of hatred I feel for the character, I would at least be able to enjoy her suffering, but it's more of the indifferent, annoyed type, where I just wish she would suffer somewhere else where I don't have to read about it. The series is supposed to be great and a classic, but volume 1 here was a letdown. The world-building was only hinted at since we didn't see much of it yet. Let's see where this is going in the next volume. Maybe MC will even change after everything she had to go through in this volume and stop being such a whiny and passive damsel in distress.

<Witch and Mercenary Vol. 1> - This is a great classic fantasy-adventure story of two unlikely protagonists venturing into the unknown. The unknown turns out to be a lot more mundane than I hoped, but it's still an entertaining read.

Witch and Mercenary Vol. 2 - It's becoming clear now that this should be called "Mercenary and Witch" since the focus is very much on the Mercenary with the Witch locking herself away in her room for the longest chunk of the volume. It's a shame since she is clearly the more interesting character.