Onna dakara, to Party wo Tsuihou sareta node Densetsu no Majo to Saikyou Tag wo Kumimashita

At one point, certain Japanese Medical school began deliberately lowering entrance exam scores for female applicants. This was because they seemed to be under the impression, that these young women wouldn't be doctors for very long, as they get married and leave their jobs.....*vomits at the words she just wrote*

Author Ameko Kaeruda discovered this, and was rather enraged, so she went on to write the Web Novel turned Light Novel, Sexiled, though I think a better name would be Lilliam, as it fits the story pretty well, and a lot of people will in fact, be confused by the title: Sexiled.

Tanya is a hot-headed young mage who tried her hardest to become an adventure, teaming up with her scummy child-hood friend, Ryan, and starting a party together, until of course Ryan kicks her out of the party because he thinks that he's "doing her a favor," because most female adventurers are looking to settle down as far as his dumb-A** can tell.

Tanya gets angry and we learn that the author has read Konosuba when Tanya goes into the middle of nowhere and spams her favorite spell, EXPLOSION!

[Megumin has entered the chat]

Anyway, Tanya accidentally releases the lackadaisical and egotistical, mythical sorcerous, Laplace. I believe it's pronounced more like Le place, as Laplace also tends to use a lot of French, like oui oui. The two end up teaming up to help Tanya get revenge, to help Laplace get into adventuring, and to make out for plot reasons, this is in fact, labeled as a Shoujo ai/yuri.

This is a really fun series, yes it has the whole revenge thing, but it thankfully doesn't take it to the sadistic extremes or edge that Shield Hero or Redo of Healer were up to. Tanya just wants to embarrass Ryan, and without spoiling anything, Ryan's own actions are what lead to a lot of the really bad things that happen to him. it comes off as though he's bitten more than he can chew.

This series has more than just a revenge aspect though, our heroes help each out and work to dismantle the sexist problems with their society, such as unfair systems or something small like the dress code, which is a nice lambasting of the tropes of female adventurers not wearing a lot of clothes.

There's also a certain kindness to the series, our characters help people, feeling sympathy for people, even if those people are monsters, or former enemies. It helps balance out the rage, revenge, and anti-sexism. it also helps that the characters never feel like their on a soapbox, or being preachy. Tanya doesn't talk down to Sexists, she yells at them or punches them in the face. She's a fairly simpleminded, hot tempered type as I mentioned previously.

This series can also be a lot of fun, when reading it, the characters did have their serious moments, but the series can often be rather comedic, at least in the first volume.

It's also worth noting, since people will wonder this, the characters are overpowered, but within reason, as this story more or less takes place after they've been through most of their training, and even then, Tanya does get a bit of practice in during the first volume.

And as one would guess, this is DEFINITELY a girl power story, which I personally rather enjoy. I've been enjoying the influx of good female rep. in fantasy isekai-type series like Kuma, Bofuri, Villainess, Spider, and now Sexiled. I also liked that the characters didn't feel like bland pieces of raccoon shaped wood, yes, that was a jab at Raphtalia from Shield Hero.

The only issue I have is that the LN will often skip over bits that aren't THAT important, but I think could be if things were a bit more fleshed out, though I guess that would be something for more of an anime, which I hope this series gets, though I doubt it'll meet the expectations of the visuals in my head.

That also reminds me, the artwork in this LN is amazing. Characters look expressive, detailed, cool, and cute at the same time. Kazutomo Miya did a FANTASTIC job with this series.

Another issue I have isn't much of an issue, but I....don't even know if this will ever get an anime, because at the time of this review, this is one of those series that's basically forgotten on MAL, so it could actually be over for all I know, doesn't help that the next volume looks very final, and that a third volume isn't listed. MAL has it listed as ongoing, but I really trust them, since this one has faded into the background.

In conclusion, if you think you might enjoy girl power lesbians getting revenge and helping people out of the goodness of their hearts, read it, the series has been translated into English physically and digitally. The volumes aren't that long, and it's not expensive on Amazon, so go out and get it. If you don't think you'll enjoy it, give the series a shot anyway, you might think it sounds bad, but it might pleasantly surprise you.

This has been N.G.Chloe, signing off

The story is nothing special. It's virtually identical to every other "overpowered main character does overpowered things" story with nothing to make it unique. This can sometimes be okay, but only if the characters are really good. They're not. The characters are abysmally bad. Every single female character is a good person and the victim of some man. Every single male character is a bad person and is committing some crime against a female character. There are absolutely no exceptions to this rule. In two whole novels, there isn't a good man or bad woman. This even extends to minor extras that only pass by for a moment of the story. If the author gives enough information to even know if the character is a man or not, there will be a description of some sort of crime or appalling behavior. This gets incredibly old and boring very quickly.