“Ex-prisoner maid Elma's extraordinary skills unintentionally disrupt royal palace life while trying to be "normal."”
Shaba no "Futsuu" wa Muzukashii
シャバの「普通」は難しい
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Synopsis
Ex-prisoner maid Elma's extraordinary skills unintentionally disrupt royal palace life while trying to be "normal."
Elma, who was raised in a prison, was pardoned and released. Though she tries to heed her mother's words to be "normal," while working as a maid in the royal palace, her outlandish abilities and behavior end up shaking it up in its entirety. Completing a job in one morning that would take four people an entire day, brewing tea that tastes like it was blessed by the heavens, cutting up a giant tuna with one stroke, even surgical procedures more esoteric than healing magic are her specialty. "This much is normal outside of prison, isn't it?" The curtain opens on a story of an inadvertently peerless girl who had intended to be normal. (Source: Kadokawa, translated)
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A self-contained story.
No sequels, spin-offs or alternate tellings — Shaba no "Futsuu" wa Muzukashii begins and ends here.
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A Manga Publication
- Format 76 × 12 ch × vol
- Total read 10h 08m approx
- Published Sep 2018 – Apr 2026
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M49786 catalog