Studio Ghibli has the movie and I have read the book and it's precious.
Elliot Brooks 168K subscribers · Feb 8, 2026
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I think in that book's case, while it does feel like you literally just walked us off a cliff, there are a lot of things that get introduced in the second book and there's a big shift that I think it makes sense to kind of have a more formal separation.
In the Raven Scholar specifically I noted in my review for The Raven Scholar that it is not romanty or fantasy romance. It's not. However, I do think it's written in a similar style but that doesn't mean that it's romanty.


