Flowers for the Forest Beasts

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In a world dominated by swords and magic, Cleo lives his lonely life where he believes painting is his sole purpose to life. Since Cleo was born in a noble family, he must prove himself worthy to become the family’s successor by participating in a certain trial. As he enters the forbidden forest, Cleo encounters a beast that is half human and half plant. After being easily captured by the beast that resembles a human girl, Cleo plans his escape by attracting the beast’s interest and keeping Cleo alive. Out of his expectations, the time they spent living with each other made him feel unbelievably relieved. However their calming daily life did not last very long…

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Mori no Majyuu ni Hanataba wo
森の魔獣に花束を
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slay_mithos
slay_mithos
June 2, 2018
Status: afterword
It's not the best story ever, the characters are a bit shallow and you can see things coming from miles away.
There are a lot of descriptions and information blocks that add very little, the space could have been much better used to describe and flesh out the characters and their environment.

They are from radically different species, but it is more of an excuse than anything else as it doesn't build on these differences and/or similarities.

It is supposed to be a story where a strong human-looking beast comes to learn... more>> about positive emotions and appreciates art, but the storytelling manages to leave you with the feeling that the boy is a crafty monster tamer that made the monster that supposedly caught him into an entity that would not hesitate to sacrifice her own well being for him.

Don't get me wrong, it's not the worst thing I have read, by a large margin, it's just that it seems to be going for a certain feel and fails to deliver.

The translation is fine as expected from yoraikun, you are not going to have to suffer unedited machine translation, it is all in properly written English.

(I guess reading this after re-reading the cicada dragon one does hurt it a lot, as they are very similar on the subject matter but so different in execution and quality)

All in all, while it's certainly not something to remember for years, it's decent enough to waste a few hours if you are bored with nothing better to read. <<less
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ctcc42
ctcc42 rated it
March 28, 2019
Status: afterword
It's not easy to find a Monster Girl romance without a harem, or excessive perversion, but if you're reading this review, then your search is over. I think this might be the sweetest boy meats monster girl story out there.

There aren't many chapters, but each one is fairly long. In fact they are long enough that towards the end of the first chapter you might be getting a little bored of waiting for our girl in green to show up. That's not to say there is anything wrong with the... more>> MC, he is the week type but he isn't dense. It's just that he is a normal, if a sickly human being in a forest filled with dangerous beasts. He is realistic about his limitations.

The most disappointing aspect of this story is that it ends just a little too soon.

Spoiler

We reach the end at the point where the next step in the couple's relationship will be the happy go lucky hand holding lovey dovey cuddle time stage. We are right at the payoff point when the author skips out on us and leaves the rest to our imagination.

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StazDespond
StazDespond rated it
August 24, 2019
Status: afterword
this is the sweetest story ive ever read and I love it to death I wish there was an after story for this
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Garknight
Garknight rated it
October 15, 2018
Status: afterword
This novel is beautiful!

This simple story turned out to be so beautiful! What really made it stood out are the emotions that the main lead develops as the story progresses. The characters may seem weak at first, but that what makes their development beautiful! It really gives you a feeling of how beautiful and innocent an emotion called "love".

And at the end, it makes the readers contemplate how beautiful the ending is.

I would love to read some fanfics after the events of the epilogue. :D
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jazzykinns
jazzykinns rated it
June 25, 2018
Status: afterward
I admit I cried.

I'm partial to love stories. I adored this work.

I usually disdain soft heated self centered characters who never let themselves value their own self worth. Who's self esteem leaves them empty.

I usually dislike man eating monsters that kill and eat people.

But.

I love this story.
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itsxoi
itsxoi rated it
May 13, 2021
Status: prologue
This is too damn beautiful and heart-warming.

You may get bored at first for the first few chapters because it's too wordy but because of these descriptions, you may actually get attached to these characters; especially with how much they've grown.

But we really need more of that epilogue though hahahahaha.
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chande
chande rated it
February 17, 2021
Status: Completed
I simply love this. It's a sweet love story about a noble boy and a magical beast. Cleo lived his life without purpose and forced to take a life and death mission just so he could inherit the noble house. Although he didn't want the inheritance, he didn't have a choice except for completing the mission.

In the forest, he met the magical beast (whom he named Roselyn) and almost eaten by her. But then he poked her interest and she let him live by her side. Slowly, they became comrades... more>> and eventually fell in love with each other.

It's a pity that the ending is just too short although it still counts as a happy ending.

Spoiler

In the epilogue, it's mentioned that his family fell apart due to war. But there is no further information about his family's condition after that. I really wanna see his family member: the father who abandoned him, the stepmother who plotted his death in the forest, and the butler who never respected him, got their retribution and felt regret after looking down on him. It didn't happen of course. Well, at least the Grant house is no more.

I also expect a heartfelt reunion between Cleo and Roselyn after years of separation but the author just left it vague. Don't worry, they surely got back together as the hunter mentioned:

At midnight, in the forest depths, he heard the song of a man and a woman

“There must be faeries living in this forest.”

It must be a pair of loving fairies, the villages gossiped. For it was a happy song they sang.

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Ginko Biloba
Ginko Biloba rated it
July 8, 2020
Status: Completed
Although you might feel bored reading it because of some descriptions that seem unecessary, the actual plot of the story made it worth it. The ML was a good guy but not the kind of good guy who would be willing to help anybody and everybody just because his sense of justice says so. The ML also thinks of his own benefits when interactung woth someone as seen in his initial thoughts about the FL. As for the FL.... well she is the type who didn't want to take care... more>> of a dog but got attached to it after a few days.

The translation was good. Though the author's writing can be a bit wordy and can be compared as to how the new testament explained Jesus' ancestry, it is worth reading when you consider how the characters developed. And through the use of the reading skill called skimming all those seemingly unnecessary words used to describe the scene or stuff in the story can be skipped, so no worries, just activate that skill and you are good to go! <<less
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Sherrynity
Sherrynity rated it
January 26, 2019
Status: afterword
I'm not even sure why someone who didn't read it (and probably have a severe moodswing problem based on the reviews they previously wrote) gave this series a low rating, but who am I to judge?

It's a simple short story. About a boy who seeks for a place where he truly belongs. He was ditched in the middle of the woods and met a maneater-flower humanoid beast (alraune?). The whole plot is about how they grow to notice their own feelings and grow fond with each other.

Personally I think the... more>> epilogue is a bit rushed; I really hope to see more about the beginning of their love relationship in detail. But maybe an open end like that can be considered satisfying in its own way.

Big thanks for Yoraikun, for bringing this series to the surface. <<less
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Chuki Yuuki
Chuki Yuuki
August 1, 2020
Status: Completed
This is actually a really, really nice and a really, really sweet story. It's about a boy, who only ever received love from only 2 people in his life, struggling to find it in himself to live-a reason to live- and to find it in himself to love himself and life is worth living. It's about a beast, learning things she didn't know before from a boy she just meant: learning the joy and beauty that a song, a painting and plants could bring to oneself, learning about how to... more>> take care of another being asides from herself, learning how to cast aside her instinct and learn to be human, learning about emotions for the first time and learning that there's more to this world than hunting and eating.

Most importantly, this is a story about a boy and a beast who fell in love; with their own selves and with each other.

Gaaaah, honestly, this is amazingly sweet and short. <<less
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Ilisle
Ilisle rated it
May 29, 2018
Status: afterword
Some times, we need to get off from all those junk novels.
Some times, we need to think a bit more about life.

On the educative plan, there are a few things we can learn from this story.

1: Building a fire pit

2: Grafting a plant onto another

Emotionally, we can also dream or contemplate about this story. In the aspects of love and friendship.
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FreyjaVanadis
FreyjaVanadis rated it
January 9, 2023
Status: Completed
This is another one that deserves all the accolades it got. It is completely different from what I was expecting, and in such a good way! The power dynamic is totally reversed from the standard, and that catapults you into the story in a way I haven't seen before. The writing is simplistic but intelligent, and while the characters aren't all that well developed the author does an impressive job of showing who they are rather than telling us who they are. It is beautifully done and a pure story.
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Syntheticspirit
Syntheticspirit rated it
April 21, 2020
Status: Completed
I gave this a 5* because the score I originally had in mind, 4.5, rounds up to it. This story is decent enough, and the romance is okay.

Even though it's a nice story, something feels missing. Even though it focuses mainly on our MC and the FL, the world building still could've used more work. A LOT MORE. Without much world building, it felt as though I was just a spectator. This made it really hard to immerse myself into it.

The romance feels half-assed. You can feel them grow closer... more>> but the author skips out on any truly "romantic" scenes. Even in the afterword and epilogue, there isn't really much besides a vague implication. It could use more work but the interactions between them were (kinda?) heartwarming and made up for it.

The translation is absolutely phenomenal. Amazing job as always to these translators.

This story was heartwarming but that's about it. You won't truly feel immersed in it but it's a good read that can be sped through in 2-4 hours. <<less
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SassyCanoeWizard
SassyCanoeWizard rated it
December 3, 2019
Status: Completed
Sweet and warm story. Pleasant picture on cover. Yorai has translated a masterpiece once again
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ReadingSoul
ReadingSoul rated it
May 29, 2018
Status: --
You might think it's a bit early for a review (as this novel was just posted on the site), but this novel just has a s*upidly large amount of unnecessary descriptive text. Combine that with the sob story at the very start and the MC who's only character trait is being pessimistic (and likes art?).

I would save it for later, but I have no intention of reading so much for so little.

Also this a short story, but the chapters feel like they never end.

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Spoiler

Roselyne reacted strongly to that portion.
It's not as if the spottings of blue roses were few in number in the world. But their spotting sites shared a commonality, and they were often in the depths of forests humans rarely set foot in. What's more, if you tried to bring one back to grow more, once a week passes by, the blue color will drain away. Given a week, it becomes no more than an ordinary white rose. By the way, when a woman who was once a beauty completely changes in the span of only a few years, they might say, 'She was a blue rose'.
Whatever the case, blue roses were rare. While he had no intention to take one back and succeed the Grant House, since he had come all the way there, he did think he might as well see one at least once.

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^they do this with just about everything if you are fine with 90% of the novel being that have fun it's not for me <<less
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Araefis
Araefis rated it
July 12, 2023
Status: afterword
The premise is really straightforward:

"Our boy Cleo meets a flower girl beast and thus their unique relation begins."

The novel description already recaps a huge amount of the story, but I still think it's a decent read.

... more>> It has its ups and downs. It's interesting to see how the timid boy and the kinda bratty and innocent girl beast interact with each other, but it also makes me wanna sigh at times.

This story is mainly about a boy pursuing his long-desired painting career while being held hostage, but most importantly, about how both of them, despite their differences, find comfort in each other.

There's almost no setting at all —it's mostly just the two of them roaming in a forest— and the writing and narrative are far from perfect, but they serve their purpose.

The ending also has a nice twist, making it a solid 3.5/5.

Its main "flaw" is that it doesn't stand out, and it has nothing memorably good. It's just a laid-back story, even if the MC is always fearing for his life.

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HarukaNise
HarukaNise
December 31, 2021
Status: epilogue
I loved it, I can's say it's perfect and all but you guys should read it.

I don't know how to describe since I'm not good with descriptions but yeah 👍

I got emotionally invested, I'll give it a 4star rating
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