The Ideal Sponger Life: Volume 11 (Light Novel)

The Ideal Sponger Life: Volume 11 (Light Novel)
Author: Tsunehiko Watanabe
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2023-04-06
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1718364229

Burdens on both Aura’s time and body mean it’s finally time for her to appoint a prime minister and marshal. While the lightening of the load couldn’t be more welcome, the risk of those appointments pushing the country away from her control is stronger than ever. With both that potential and her husband’s future in mind, she grants Zenjirou a dukedom to help maintain the balance of power. Coupled with even more guests from the Twin Kingdoms, the prince consort is in for a fair amount of personal upheaval, but now his wife wants him to head to the Northern Continent with his likely concubine-to-be as well! It’s going to take quite a bit for Zenjirou to feel comfortable with the journey, but their current guests just might have the solution...

The Ideal Sponger Life: Volume 3

The Ideal Sponger Life: Volume 3
Author: Tsunehiko Watanabe
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2021-06-18
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1718364067

This is the third volume in the saga of our beloved “sponging protagonist,” and at this point, “sponging” is the last thing he’s doing. A year has passed since his marriage to Queen Aura of Capua, and the capital has welcomed their new child and heir to the throne, Carlos Zenkichi. The kingdom is busy with festivities to celebrate the happy news, but something more ominous has reached Aura’s ears. Margrave Gaziel tells her that his territory has had no salt for a year, and with his lands lacking both sea and rock salt, it could spell the region’s end. While the queen immediately orders an investigation, Zenjirou’s free time is becoming more than he can handle in the inner palace, and he starts to investigate what advancements might be made to move their nation forward.

The Ideal Sponger Life Vol. 11

The Ideal Sponger Life Vol. 11
Author: Tsunehiko Watanabe
Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2022-06-21
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1648279600

Queen Aura's second child is coming, and with it comes all the perils of politics and pregnancy. Having a baby in a world without modern medicine can be a frightening enterprise, and Zenjiro is committed to doing whatever he can to protect his beloved wife. That goal in mind, he resolves to master the challenging magic of Teleportation. With that power, Zenjiro could summon the finest magical healers of the Twin Kingdoms in the blink of an eye, but learning such an advanced spell will take all his grit and determination. Meanwhile, the nobles of the kingdom plot to use Aura's absence from public duties to claim new powers and privileges for themselves...

The Ideal Sponger Life: Volume 1

The Ideal Sponger Life: Volume 1
Author: Tsunehiko Watanabe
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2021-01-27
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1718364024

Yamai Zenjirou is your everyday office worker in modern Japan. One morning, he suddenly finds himself summoned to a tropical world where dinosaurs roam the land. He is told that this is the kingdom of Capua and the person who summoned him - its monarch, Queen Aura - wants him to marry her and leave his old life behind for a life of carefree extravagance as her prince consort. The reasons for her offer are many and varied, but she needs an heir, and she wants him to be the one to provide it! If he accepts, he’ll never have to work again, lazing around in luxury with no worries other than securing the kingdom its next monarch. Certainly, sleeping with the buxom beauty is far from a hardship, but is everything really as it seems? He’ll also need to give up everything he knows on Earth. Is he ready to drop it all at a moment’s notice for her sake? And how well will he be able to navigate the politics, people and culture of this new world if he does?

The Ideal Sponger Life Vol. 4

The Ideal Sponger Life Vol. 4
Author: Tsunehiko Watanabe
Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2019-12-10
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1645053539

Two years have passed since Zenjiro was summoned to a kigdom in another world and married its beautiful queen. Now, Zenjiro and Queen Aura celebrate the birth of their child--the young First Prince of Capua---and the realm celebrates with them. Yet while Zenjiro is busy adjusting to his new life as a father, a bloody massacre breaks out along the vital Salt Road. A company of knights and warriors rides to do battle with all manner of wyverns, even as a delegation arrives from the Twin Kingdoms with an agenda all its own!

My New Roots

My New Roots
Author: Sarah Britton
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Total Pages: 585
Release: 2015-03-31
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0804185395

At long last, Sarah Britton, called the “queen bee of the health blogs” by Bon Appétit, reveals 100 gorgeous, all-new plant-based recipes in her debut cookbook, inspired by her wildly popular blog. Every month, half a million readers—vegetarians, vegans, paleo followers, and gluten-free gourmets alike—flock to Sarah’s adaptable and accessible recipes that make powerfully healthy ingredients simply irresistible. My New Roots is the ultimate guide to revitalizing one’s health and palate, one delicious recipe at a time: no fad diets or gimmicks here. Whether readers are newcomers to natural foods or are already devotees, they will discover how easy it is to eat healthfully and happily when whole foods and plants are at the center of every plate.

The Ideal Sponger Life Vol. 6

The Ideal Sponger Life Vol. 6
Author: Tsunehiko Watanabe
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-09-08
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1645057429

PLENTY OF FISH IN THE SEA A young girl calling herself Princess Freya arrives in the Kingdom of Capua, claiming to have sailed from across the northern sea! With Queen Aura preoccupied with matters of state, Zenjiro is sent out to the port city of Valentia to see if he can establish profitable trade between the continents. It’s Zenjiro’s first-ever journey out of the royal palace...what could possibly go wrong?

The Ideal Sponger Life Vol. 3

The Ideal Sponger Life Vol. 3
Author: Tsunehiko Watanabe
Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2019-09-17
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1645051455

When he chose to leave Earth and marry Queen Aura, Zenjiro learned that his blood carried an otherworldly ancestry...but it turns out his family tree had more secrets than anyone imagined. The children he and Aura hope to have together could upend the world's peaceful order, bearing powers no one expected. It'll take all of Aura's cunning to navigate intrigue between kingdoms, even while Zenjiro prepares for the possibility of a new addition to their royal family.

The Ideal Sponger Life: Volume 12 (Light Novel)

The Ideal Sponger Life: Volume 12 (Light Novel)
Author: Tsunehiko Watanabe
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2023-06-08
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1718364245

After a long and perilous voyage across the intercontinental waves, the Glasir’s Leaf has finally reached the Northern Continent. Princess Freya makes the decision to dock in the port of Pomorskie, a country relatively free from the church’s influence. Zenjirou rewards his subordinates with the chance to stretch their legs now that they are finally back on dry land, offering them money and time to do with as they will. But when one of them runs into a young orphan who has pressing information to share with a priest, the prince consort quickly finds himself acting as a go-between. Even on a whole new continent, intrigue seems to dog his steps as the orphan boy brings word of an impending attack on the country!

The Ideal Sponger Life: Volume 14 (Light Novel)

The Ideal Sponger Life: Volume 14 (Light Novel)
Author: Tsunehiko Watanabe
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2023-11-23
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1718364288

Now that Zenjirou’s adventurers on the Northern Continent have come to a close, he and Aura finally hear what made Lucretia so worried—secrets of the White Empire’s remnants and the hidden history of Utgard. Unable and unwilling to ignore the information—as questionable as it might be—the queen decides to send for the former king of the Twin Kingdoms. The meeting needs to be secret, though, and Margarita’s interest in Völundr is the perfect cover. Although Zenjirou has only just returned home, he soon finds himself heading out to the Twin Kingdoms to fetch the royals both publicly and clandestinely. Everything has started to unfold at once with gifts from the Four Dukes, lessons from his wife, and even communications from yet another country in the North. Zenjirou will have to navigate them all, even if it means any hope of regaining his ideal sponger life is all but lost.