If you've seen the anime, then this only fills in some tiny gaps with regard to history and some other things the characters were thinking of.
Overall the story is good. I don't quite like how we need a male vessel to tour the story with, but Lafiel is strong in her own right and Jinto just looks like an ass.
Honestly I don't see how this is really "Space Opera" as it really only focuses on a small group of people, and to me a Space Opera, like a Soap Opera, focuses on groups of people.
This book only covers up to about the middle of the Lyuf Klowal part, around episode 6~7.

The only thing I find majorly wrong with this book is the use of Baronh all the time. It's like that one image:


Only the TL note is brief and then you have to glossary hop.

I was really disappointed by this. Maybe it's just the translation and the original Japanese novel is a masterpiece of science fiction. I just could not get through this without being bored out of my skull. What I got from it was a boy who's a subject of a superhuman space empire meets a girl who happens to be the princess of this superhuman space empire and an awkward romance ensues, while war also rears its ugly head.The writing was just atrocious, with info-dumping everywhere and character conversations consisting of constant streams of exposition. It's as if whoever translated Hiroyuki Morioka's work was terrified that he'd missed something out. Who knows, maybe it's like that in the original. It was a fairly breezy read, but I found myself skimming more often than not, when I should have been immersed into the world of this story and enjoying it.All in all, not the greatest introducer to the Crest of the Stars/Sekai no Monsho/Sekai Senki series. I'd recommend the manga or the anime. Also, volume 2 is out of print, so... grr, Tokyopop!!

Enjoyable read, highly recommend this series.v

Enjoyable read, highly recommend this series.

Enjoyable read, highly recommend this series.