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A review by jayecard
Sexiled: My Sexist Party Leader Kicked Me Out, So I Teamed Up with a Mythical Sorceress! Vol. 1 by Ameko Kaeruda
4.0
tl;dr: A very quick and fun read about girls in a fantasy jobline full of sexists, and how they won't let that stop them.
Short, simple, straightforward, satirical. And absolutely hysterical. I can open this book at any random page and will find a scene that will make me laugh. This book was written as an answer to all the male power fantasies, and has badass mage Tanya and ancient aloof sorceress Laplace get the revenge we honestly all have dreamed about at some point. It's a brief and a little too condensed story (I really wished some mini-arcs had gotten a bunch more in depth scenes) with an awesome cast of characters. A few points that I think potential readers will care about:
- This book really slashes through sexist happenstances like vegetables. I think most female readers will recall experiencing SOME of these, but hardly anyone will recall ALL of these. They are however certainly based on real issues. Notably, one arc is directly inspired by a Japanese medical university cutting female entrance examinee's scores so they would have less female students (which, yikes).
- This book isn't too particularly deep, it seeks to make fun of and get angry at blatant sexism, and it's GREAT at that, but it doesn't seek to do that much analysis for why the world is this way
- While this book LOVES dumping on good old "MMORPG female armor", one main character explicitely enjoys showing off her cleavage "because it's fun" and it's portrayed as perfectly fine
- One main character wants to follow what's in universe considered a traditional female gender role because that's what she wants for herself, and the narrative is fully supportive of her
- As the blurb describes, there is some girl-kissing, but this volume doesn't go to any tangible sapphic lovestory territory. I don't know about further volumes, it's possible, the author has written sapphic romance before, and I hope for it, but I'm in no position to make any promises.
I think what really does it for me in this book is the details. It's easy to write "haha dumb sexist man gets owned" (and admittedly this book can get pretty strawman-y), but Sexiled goes much further and writes female characters that have been affected by this world and how it affects them in ways that hit me pretty deeply at times - starting from chapter 1, and not stopping until the end.
Short, simple, straightforward, satirical. And absolutely hysterical. I can open this book at any random page and will find a scene that will make me laugh. This book was written as an answer to all the male power fantasies, and has badass mage Tanya and ancient aloof sorceress Laplace get the revenge we honestly all have dreamed about at some point. It's a brief and a little too condensed story (I really wished some mini-arcs had gotten a bunch more in depth scenes) with an awesome cast of characters. A few points that I think potential readers will care about:
- This book really slashes through sexist happenstances like vegetables. I think most female readers will recall experiencing SOME of these, but hardly anyone will recall ALL of these. They are however certainly based on real issues. Notably, one arc is directly inspired by a Japanese medical university cutting female entrance examinee's scores so they would have less female students (which, yikes).
- This book isn't too particularly deep, it seeks to make fun of and get angry at blatant sexism, and it's GREAT at that, but it doesn't seek to do that much analysis for why the world is this way
- While this book LOVES dumping on good old "MMORPG female armor", one main character explicitely enjoys showing off her cleavage "because it's fun" and it's portrayed as perfectly fine
- One main character wants to follow what's in universe considered a traditional female gender role because that's what she wants for herself, and the narrative is fully supportive of her
- As the blurb describes, there is some girl-kissing, but this volume doesn't go to any tangible sapphic lovestory territory. I don't know about further volumes, it's possible, the author has written sapphic romance before, and I hope for it, but I'm in no position to make any promises.
I think what really does it for me in this book is the details. It's easy to write "haha dumb sexist man gets owned" (and admittedly this book can get pretty strawman-y), but Sexiled goes much further and writes female characters that have been affected by this world and how it affects them in ways that hit me pretty deeply at times - starting from chapter 1, and not stopping until the end.