Manga: High School Prodigies Have it Easy Even in Another World 3

High School Prodigies Have it Easy Even in Another World Vol 3
Rating: 3/5
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Source: Copy courtesy of the publisher in exchange for an honest review! 

Conquering the Findolph domain was child's play for the high school prodigies! Now on the path to all-out war with the empire, they embark upon their next feat, which is...starting their own religion?! To help save the people from the tyrannous empire, the prodigies aim to rapidly expand their sphere of influence by casting themselves as gods and angels while wielding their special skill sets for the common good. They're ready to make history by winning over the hearts and minds of the people, one believer at a time! 

It's Akatsuki's time to shine as they need him to help start up a religion, to help get the people invested in a revolution. With the added bonus of helping them look in to the legend of the seven heroes which will hopefully give them a clue about getting home. 

I did think we'd focus on that more than we did in this volume but we only see a little of it in the beginning. Then we watch them sort some other bits out, and get to meet the new Commander of their army and get to grips slightly with the two different kinds of spells that exist in this world. 

Volume 3 see's something developing between Tsukasa and Lyrule thanks to Masato's help with a little misunderstanding, this could potentially add in some romance and some angst as our prodigies seem to want to go home. 

Things don't really heat up until we move on to Elch and Shinobu, as thanks to them we get to head out and explore a new village which has an undercurrent of shadiness about it. It all seems fine on the surface but there's a sense of something...wrong about the whole place and then it gets quite dark quite fast. 

For the most part, volume 3 is quite slow and my interest wasn't really piqued until the shady village but what frustrated me with this volume is that once that plot thread with the village was getting good and providing some intrigue...we switched back to the others and it slowed down again.