Cute

This reminds me of Bride's Story! The art is beautiful. I love historical manga. Definitely going to read the rest of the series.

This was a very sweet story!

I like the slice of life and the fact that there's very little forced drama. On the other hand, the eyes in this book are terrifying.

(3.5/5)

I think a lot of reader's first instinct might be to compare this to series to A Bride's Story.

Yes, this is a historical romance. Yes it focuses on marriage and the growth of a couple. But it's very different from A Bride's Story, both in location -Tibet- and character. They're working with two dynamically different eras in history too.

These stories are so different, in fact, that I don't think it's fair to compare them.

So I won't. Instead, let me tell you about Blissful Land.

Blissful Land follows up-and-coming doctor/herb enthusiast Khang Zhipa and fiance/dye enthusiast Rati, two youths living in 18th century Tibet who met by chance. Unbeknownst to Zhipa, he's set to marry Rati, a girl who he believes has been brought to his village to marry someone else.

From there, we start to get easy-going peaks into the beginnings of their life as Rati moves in to Zhipa's home ahead of their pending marriage. You can already see that this will be a love match, intonation, despite being arranged: I look forward to seeing that develop.

The story isn't doing anything completely new: it's historical romance with a healthy heap of slice-of-life, but honestly that's just so nice to tuck into sometimes that I don't mind. Not every story needs to do something new: it just needs to execute it's story will, which I honestly feel they Blissful Land does quite nicely.

I really quite liked this first volume: I'll definitely be continuing into the next as soon as I can!

I really enjoyed this story, it's quiet and sweet, about family and love. A young man learning to be a doctor meets his wife-to-be, who has come to stay with his family before the wedding. In this first volume, we see them starting to get to know each other, learning about each other, and developing a friendship. They each have something they love- he loves all things herbs, she loves dyeing and weaving, and they discover their loves are complimentary to each other, which was really adorable, I thought. The artwork is gorgeous, and adds so much to the story. I look forward to continuing this series!