Cute, if a bit generic, shoujo manga. The protagonist Liselotte is a cheerful girl with a sad past-- she is living in the remote wilderness having been exiled from a life of wealth and nobility-- but she stays almost stubbornly positive despite that. Her companions are a set of twins who live with her as her servants, but it's in typical shoujo manga fashion where they have a more friendly and caring relationship. The cuteness of the twins' character designs and their funny and adorable interactions with Lise are alone enough to keep me reading for now. However, there's also an intriguing love interest who enters the story early on. Naturally he's an untalkative mysterious bishounen but he seems to have a past with Lise, so I'm sure there will be more development later on.

The story follows Lise and her companions living in a house near the so-called "witch's forest", which is exactly what it sounds like: a forest where witches live. This is by far the most intriguing thing about the manga, and while we don't learn very much about it, Lise already has a brush with a witch in this first volume, so it'll only be a matter of time before the witches take a greater role in the story. ( )

Too dry, boring, and bland. I don't know why Liz and that guy like each other so fast. I'm just not invested enough to read volume 2. ( )

This is very cute and gentle, to the point of being bland. My main complaint though is the word balloons. They float all over the place, sometimes covering the faces of characters, and are often difficult to trace back to the start of the sentence being spoken or even the character speaking them. Maybe they are being deliberately employed to obscure the fact that nothing much is going on here.

Ho-hum. ( )