Yumi Tōma

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Oh my goddess!

Kirsten Simkiss

I think this one probably deserves 2.5 stars, but I leaned toward three on it probably due to nostalgia.

I want to preface this by saying that I absolutely love the actual manga for this series. I have always loved them, especially as the art style continued to develop and shift. 

Second, I do want to say that I'm reviewing an English translation of a story initially written in Japanese. I'm hopeful not too much got lost in translation, but it is always something to take into account.

First things first, I thought the characters were very well written. I felt no disconnect from the characters in the manga at all, which is always important. I know Yumi Tohma is the Japanese voice actor for Urd and I applaud her for getting all of the characters emotionally right for the book.

This story, however, was just not that interesting to me. The plot seemed needlessly stretched out. They spent a great deal of time trying to show Belldandy and Keichii's strained relationship, but I really think they spent too much time doing so. There wasn't a single scene with Megumi where she didn't constantly egg on her brother to go for it with Belldandy in some fashion. They also spent way too much time describing details of things that, in the long run, didn't really matter at all. It was just a little too much fluff fairly consistently. It also doesn't appear that, given the plot, anything actually got fixed from the main story. It seems time is doomed to repeat itself again in the hopes that they manage to get it right this time.

I'm not sure where in the story line this book is supposed to take place either. Obviously, it's not one of the manga stories, but it's something I considered. 

Overall, I think I'll just stick to the manga. I'm a little too attached to the artwork in them to prefer novelized stories about them.

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