Post what you’ve read this past week (June 12-18)
The Demon Sword Master of Excalibur Academy. Sensing that his end is near, the Undead King, one of the Dark Lords trying to take over the world, uses a reincarnation spell to return 1,000 years later. He awakens to a world at war with mysterious creatures called The Void.
I read volume 1 and I’m halfway through volume 2. I’m not sold on this one. The main sticking point for me is that the protagonist has been reborn as a 10 year old human boy (instead of his previous immortal Undead King self) and has his human emotions reawakened. So one minute he’s reflecting on how he single-handedly destroyed armies mercilessly in his past life, the next he’s getting bashful because a girl got too close.
It also seems like they’re building him up to be a faux villain who was just misunderstood or whatever in his past life. He wants to rule (both in his past and present life), but his goals beyond that are kinda vague. I guess I’ll stick with it a bit longer and see how it goes.
he’s getting bashful because a girl got too close
Oh God, that’s one of those I should add to my LN pet peeves post. But I guess that falls under the “passive main characters” category as well. If LN characters are written as a self-insert how socially inept have the Japanese target audience have to be…
Due to the release of a certain ARPG, I didn’t read much this week. The only LN I’ve read was Enough with This Slow Life! I Was Reincarnated as a High Elf and Now I’m Bored: Volume 2. This series has an interesting quirk that I haven’t seen anywhere else yet. The story is written from a macro point of view. Entire decades are flying by in single chapters. As an example:
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this volume starts with MC picking up a little boy, at the end of the volume the boy is in his 30s or so.
4/10 timeless elves, plus a bonus point for the uniqueness.
Last volume of So I’m A Spider, So What… wow what an unbelievably mediocre end to the series. Pointless battles, handwaved solutions to major conflicts, and a lack of long anticipated emotional reunions. Hell, half the epilogue was the same repeated statement that characters were never seen again. Not that I’m surprised, the series started strong, peaked early, then went down hill after that, but I was still hoping for at least a little meaningful satisfaction at the end. 3/5 for the Lightnovel and the series as a whole.
I dropped it the after the volume where almost the entire thing was just from the side story’s POV. I always thought I should maybe pick it up again, but reading your post now I’m happy that I didn’t.
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