Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?!! Manga v.1 – Funa (Funa - Illustrator Nekomint)

“Didn’t I Say, etc.” takes a common light-novel theme - someone from our world is reincarnated in a sword-and-sorcery world - and takes it somewhere quirky and interesting. The protagonist did not benefit from being exceptional in her first life, and asked to be reborn with average abilities. An odd sense of ‘average’ was applied.

I enjoyed the light novel considerably, but the manga did not work as an adaptation of the story. Too much story was squeezed into too few pages, and the result did not flow well. It was the social dimension of the story that made the novel work - the protagonist trying to fit into one milieu and then another with her combination of extraordinary abilities and social cluelessness - and there was hardly room for that in the manga. There was barely room for a skeleton of a story, fleshed out with scenes that worked in the novel, but didn’t make a lot of sense in the manga because most of the context was missing.