Majo No Tabitabi Light Novel The best thing about a journey is the experience itself not the destination. This is a phrase that has stuck with me while reading this book series over the past few months. I started reading it because the anime was unique. I wanted to continue exploring the different stories as the nonattached story writing style while utilizing existing character development was something I hadnt seen. So I started my journey by reading Volume 4. the book Amnesias past story was explained Why was I hooked on this book series? To put it simply Elaina. Here is a detailed explanation of why I like her as a character: Shes my favorite character of all time. Simply because of her personality. Her personality was shaped because of her not getting acknowledged as a good apprentice witch at a young age. She was a child prodigy passing the exams at the age of 14. While an average magic user struggles at 18 even. To become a fullfledged witch as an apprentice you need to be acknowledged by another witch. And because Elaina was a child prodigy no other witch in her hometown wanted to teach her. And when she was taken in by a mysterious witch there was no magic training for a month then she was bullied to desperation by her teacher. this will make sense when you read the story thoroughly This part made me attached to the character. And as she develops as a character further down the line her twisted personality being nasty or nice depending on the situation makes the stories touching. Because in her heart she has grown to be a nice person but because she was rejected when she was a child she keeps a devious approach to those around her. And shows her nicer side when she senses that the person she met is genuine with their intentions. With more and more interactions her character further develops and we see sides of her that most of us cant believe exists. Like one of the chapters in Volume 6 in which she acted like a tsundere cat girl. not going too indepth for obvious reasons Enough about Elaina lets talk about the structure of the story as well. At first it feels like a diary because there are stories with no context from our traveling witch Elaina. But as we go further in volumes the stories slowly connect and there are even long storylines that are quite well written. Especially to show a newly introduced characters past. Amnesia 4 Vivia 6 Frans Past 8 They allocate a good 4080 pages of story for their past making their interactions with Elaina much more engaging. And they reappear now and then in the disconnected stories making it delicate to see more of their interaction with Elaina. or each other I say the stories are disconnected but there is quite a bit of reference to the introduced characters past so you can not read out of order. I did and I had to reread it because of it It makes the story feel worse if you do not know the context so PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE dont read out of order. Enough about the story Now I want to mention the general positives that this series has. Afterwords I usually skip out on that but for this series I look forward to reading it every time as the author Jougi Shiraishi puts some of his odd thoughts in these like his childhood memories or recent situations which sheds light on where he got the inspiration for certain chapters. And it made me understand his motive for writing this series in general as well. Having disconnected stories feel connected instead of making one big storyline is a huge positive as well. It keeps the reader attached and makes them keep an eye out for the next volume releases. I have currently read through Volumes 38 This section is reserved to rate each volume and the impact that it had on me. Volume 3 6/10 The first three volumes of this series were written back in 2016 when this series was available to the public and because of that Shiraishi Jougi decided not to continue this. So Volume 3 was written as a way to end the series which did not do the job because of how awkward it was structured. The overall story structure was poor in this volume as well even though the stories were decent it felt odd. In 2017 this series gets officially picked up and in 2018 by Yen Press for English press so the story continues anyways. The next volumes are a big step up in both writing quality and storytelling though. If I only read the first 3 books Id probably rate this series a 7 at max. So youll see why the book series is a 100 for me in the Volume 4 part. Volume 4 10/10 A big step up from the last volume in almost every way. There are more connected stories the writing quality and storytelling are overall better and it contains one of my favorite story arcs for this series Amnesia This volume with its both dark and fun stories manages to place at second place for my favorite volumes for this book series. Now lets get to the reason why this volume is a 10/10 for me: I usually dont cry about an anime or a character in a book but this book did it for the first time... When you are miserable and have no one to turn up to there will be someone Even if it is a person you dont know. But when you find that person you will feel at ease. You will be scared if they will leave you or not because of the burden you carry but you still act carelessly. Because you know they care about you. And you know how to show your appreciation. Especially when the person that cared for you is on the opposite end of the stick this time. The person that is there for Amnesias hardships being Elaina and Amnesias expressed emotions exactly felt like this. And me being in a depressed state I related to this. A lot. After reading this volume I emotionally grew an attachment to both Elaina and Amnesia which I was not expecting. And I cried... Like a baby. Volume 5 8.5/10 Overall there are more positive stories in this volume they were wholesome. I always had a grin on my face watching Elaina being a TSUNDERE reading this volume. After reading this volume I decided that I will pursue reading this series until Yen Press stops pressing English books for it. I read volumes 4 and 5 in close periods so I made this decision at 4. After getting attached to Elaina as a character these interactions made more and more sense it was sweeter than anything and I fell in love with her even more. One thing to add from this volume Jougi Shiraishi the author starts interacting with readers more in the afterword they are always fun to read. Volume 6 9/10 Dark stories quantity increased quite a bit and in this volume the storytelling quality increases even more. There were some creepy stories which I enjoyed Elainas reactions to. The series starts to contain a lot more long story arcs starting from this novel which will take 1/3rd of the book. From this volume new characters that get introduced feel like they have something similar yet they feel different. Making them quite complex increasing the interaction quality. Especially with characters that were introduced earlier in the series. Volume 7 9.5/10 This is my favorite volume out of all the disconnected stories feel like they are all connected in unexpected ways the storytelling gets EVEN better and character interactions get much more engaging in general. This is the peak of the series qualitywise. Volume 8 9.1/10 This one is quite nice as well we get to cover a dark secret between Elainas teacher Fran and why she was a teacher like she was towards Elaina. We see a lot more old characters returning here as well which I was craving because the last one was in Volume 5 with Saya and Avelia. I overall enjoyed this journey and I want to continue supporting the series as reading this series gave me hope a light that I would not imagine finding otherwise. I am gonna keep an eye out for the next volumes peace I will edit this review as I read the missing volumes for 110 after I read 10 for future volume reviews I will make a new review page.