Zero no Tsukaima
Apr. 23rd, 2007 01:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lilfluffThe above, which seems to be translated as The Familiar of Zero, is the title of another series I think I shall be keeping watch for. Zero is apparently the worst student at her academy of magic. When a new teacher asks for a volunteer among the second year students to try out, "The most basic of alchemy spells" Louise the Zero's volunteering causes quite a deal of fright (with the quiet bookworm student simply walking out into the hall while another student's pleas for a different volunteer provides a distraction).
Poor Louise, she avoids punishment for the damage caused to the classroom only because it's ruled that the teacher was partially at fault for ignoring the warnings of her incompetence from the other students. Unfortunately when some of her classmates taunt her later she declares that she will summon the greatest of all the familiars at the next day's ceremonial familiar summoning. What she gets is a Japanese high school student named Saito. Who only reluctantly agrees to be her familiar after first trying to run away, then spending a night chained up on a pile of straw facing the choice of, "Do my menial chores or I won't bother feeding you."
You know, let's stop feeling sorry for Louise. How about Saito? Pulled from home, a slave in all but name since this fantasy world's laws now only see him as a familiar, with a sorcerer who is more than happy to pass on all the bullying she's received as a master.
This looks like it could be an amusing comic fantasy. Apparently it has been picked up by Geneon, but it doesn't seem to be on the release schedule yet.
Poor Louise, she avoids punishment for the damage caused to the classroom only because it's ruled that the teacher was partially at fault for ignoring the warnings of her incompetence from the other students. Unfortunately when some of her classmates taunt her later she declares that she will summon the greatest of all the familiars at the next day's ceremonial familiar summoning. What she gets is a Japanese high school student named Saito. Who only reluctantly agrees to be her familiar after first trying to run away, then spending a night chained up on a pile of straw facing the choice of, "Do my menial chores or I won't bother feeding you."
You know, let's stop feeling sorry for Louise. How about Saito? Pulled from home, a slave in all but name since this fantasy world's laws now only see him as a familiar, with a sorcerer who is more than happy to pass on all the bullying she's received as a master.
This looks like it could be an amusing comic fantasy. Apparently it has been picked up by Geneon, but it doesn't seem to be on the release schedule yet.
