Dahlia in Bloom 1-8:
More than just the last week, but I finally caught up with the translations.

The story is fairly mundane for a, isekei fantasy world light novel. No major meta plot, no level grind. No major world building. No major fights. No real enemies. It is basically a light character drama slice of life. So far, maybe 6 months have passed in 8 volumes, and the main, so obvious even a horse sees it, romantic subplot is unchanged. The main character is something of a mary sue with everything tending to work in her favor (cold open, otome like dumping scene included.)

Normally I’d be bored with this. But the business/inventor subplot is fun and the characters are very well written, especially the way their interests and back stories tie together. It is character driven and uses the characters well.

Sadly it does not look like the anime has done a good job showing any of the stories charms, but I’m a few episodes behind so maybe it gets better.