Published: 2017
Pages: 180
Genre: Manga, Fantasy, Romance
Lullaby, and Good Night...
After mistakenly putting Elias under a sleeping spell, Chise can't find a way to wake him up! She turns to Angie for help, and brews a potion meant to undo the spell--but the process is so exhausting, Chise ends up falling asleep herself. Upon entering a dream world, she crosses paths with the person she least expected: Cartaphilus. But something's off--the amoral alchemist seems to have lost his threatening edge. Meanwhile, in the outside world, trouble is brewing...on a dragon-sized scale!
Kore Yamazaki's mystical manga is absolutely spellbinding, and this volume is no exception. Volume 7 picks up after the cliffhanger in Volume 6, and soon resolves the chaos. If anything, I felt like this was resolved a little bit too quickly - it didn't keep the momentum and suspense of Volume 6. It felt more like an afterthought before Volume 7 spun its own story. But, that's a minor grumble, as with all previous volumes of this fantasy-romance, I sped through the pages.
As I've found previously, my favourite moments of the series are the sweet, everyday interactions between the characters so I really enjoyed the section where Chise met up with Angelica and her family. It was wonderful to get a deeper view on some of the minor characters in the series. I also really enjoyed meeting some of Renfred's friends (or colleagues, may be more accurate. Does that man actually have any friends?) and found Torrey to be especially delightful. A nice zing of energy added to an often sombre cast of characters.
While the artwork is beautiful, it's the strong thread of story and the developing relationship between Chise and Elias that keeps me coming back to this series.
A small criticism of this volume is that the artwork became quite dark towards the end, so it became difficult to see what was happening clearly, but with extra studying it became easier to unfold.
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