Forum - View topicREVIEW: The Strange Adventure of a Broke Mercenary
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Merxamers
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Unfortunately, I think the reviewer is being far to soft on this series. Nearly every plot point is beat for beat copied from Goblin Slayer, except he inserted his own copy of Guts as the lead character. This may not be a problem if the reader hasn’t read Goblin Slayer, but in that case I’d heavily recommend they read that instead.
Even worse, this is by the same author as New Game+, which one may recall was cancelled when racist dog whistles referencing WW2 atrocities were discovered in the books. Even beyond that, the casual attitude towards violence against women in this book reminded me a lot of why I dropped New Game+. I think it’s unfortunate that the publisher chose to license another one of this author’s works. |
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Yune Amagiri
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I haven't read the 3rd volume yet but the first 2 were much better than what i expected, while there are multiple similarities with GS, they're not so blatant to regard this one as just a watered-down version of the earlier ( I do read GS ). The more than an acquaintance but less than a friend dynamic between the 2 main characters is my favorite aspect of this serie, i'd like to see the kind of duo more often.
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Casval Rem Deikun
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A lot of series follow the whole gimmicks of, ranks, guilds, classes, etc. It gets pretty tiring, especially when you finally find a fantasy series that's not a isekai but it has to have these ridiculous staple bits always attached to them. As a huge fan of Goblin Slayer, it absolutely feels like it, but just a dumb cast around it. You have a slice of life-idiot-version of Guts and crazy possessive girl that uses him cause he's too dumb to speak up.
Honestly, great review. The rating is completely accurate for this series and I can assure you it stays like this for a good while.. I wish more authors who want to delve into fantasy would stop adding the whole "but this is how fantasy is with ranks etc" and just make their own world and not follow every Dragon Quest, D&D scenario. Strive to be like Berserk, Guin, Tolkien, anything. Every series just starts to feel like a bogged down version of a better series it's trying to be like instead of focusing on what it wants to be. |
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LegitPancake
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So only the author's first series, New Life+, got cancelled, but he himself is still getting publishing work on other series? Wasn't the main thing about his racist tweets? Yea the LNs had some disturbing details if you looked closely, but it seemed like most people were offended by his comments...
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whiskeyii
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I mean...the entire premise was based on a Japanese guy who delighted in slaughtering Chinese people during the First Sino-Japanese War--and on a meta-textual level, it's during the Second Sino-Japanese War that Japan perpetrated its most infamous war crimes against the Chinese people (which it's still really, really hesitant to publicly acknowledge)--who then went on to kill even *more* people after the war had ended being reincarnated to live his best life, so like...the whole idea is pretty yikes from the get-go. You just don't know the MC's backstory til way late into the books, from what I can tell, so it feels pretty disingenuous to have an isekai about what is essentially a war criminal and just kinda' sweep it under the rug like that. (I presume we wouldn't be having this conversation if the war criminal bit was a thematic plot point, but no one who ever mentions this series seriously ever treats it like this is meant to be a redemptive story, so...) That said, I will be so, sooooo happy when fantasy light novels finally ditch this gamefied aspect of fantasy mechanics. I love my MMOs, RPGs, and D&D sessions as much as the next nerd, but hey, that's why I *play* them. I don't want to *read* about them; who actually enjoys reading the Player's Handbook (and is not actively prepping for a campaign)??? Give me a lush fantasy world any day, please! I'm dying over here! EDIT: edited for clarity, as I got my wars mixed up |
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