Thank you so much to Kodansha Comics and NetGalley for providing me with an e-ARC; it is greatly appreciated.

What a funny little book ! Based on the description I was thinking this might be a manga where it's several stories in one that all take place on the island. Instead we follow our main character, Hayasaka, and the events that occur after she finds a bizzare looking idol on the beach. She cleans it up, takes it to a shrine, and following the lead of a local folktale, prays to it for help. This seems to bring the idol to life, but he has grown to the size of a child, which is just straight up creepy !

It's quite lighthearted at first as it establishes the characters. There's a humorous undertone throughout most of the story, as the characters simply do not know what to make of this idol turned "God." However, by the end of the manga you can definitely see the sinister side of this good fortune, so it appears that the story will get darker as it goes on.

Since this is the first volume, it's mostly about establishing the setting, characters, and situation, so that we're on the same page as the main characters. Due to this it is more dialogue heavy, which I did not mind at all. I felt like this book accomplished quite a lot for a first volume, and ended in a perfect spot to just give the reader a taste of the darkness of the God's power.

Overall I'm really looking forward to continuing on with this series. It's exactly as NetGalley bills it, a "bizzare, supernatural new story." I did see that it came out in its original language, Japanese, back in 2016, and there are currently nine volumes released there. I'm hoping that this is good news for the English translation, as I am ready to jump into the next volume !