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MFrontier
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Unexpected romance pairing of Mikako Komatsu and Junichi Suwabe. I didn't think Junichi Suwabe could still get this kind of role!
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Rosiero
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Okay, so what *is* he capable of? Given the general caliber of light novel heroes, I'm on the side of the people in the city. And if even the princess knight doesn't know, why does she keep this guy around? Why are blurbs for Japanese media always so bad at actually explaining a hook and just go "oooOOOooohhhh, it's SO INTERESTING I swear! Wanna know why it's interesting? I guess you'd better watch/read it!" |
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chronos02
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Marketing materials aside, this is actually a pretty fun series to read. There's of course the mystery of why she's keeping the guy around, but it goes, obviously, much deeper than that. It's a more classic adventuring series more akin to Louie, the rune knight and Orphen than other more videogamey world kinds of fantasy adventure titles.
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Alan45
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Rosiero wrote:
That would be a major spoiler. Your patience is requested.
Because he is good in bed? Why else would a princess have a kept man. |
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Yune Amagiri
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While reading the first 2 volumes i also felt some 90'- early 2000 antihero works vibes. Can't say that i was hoping for an adaptation but why not.
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BlueAlf
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I didn't expect an adaptation so fast.
I guess the novels must have been some sort of a hit. |
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Marimer Est
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Ooooor...the industry is doing what it's always done and mindlessly latches onto the latest thing at any given moment and hammers the life out of it straight into oblivion. I couldn't care less about more braindead isekai garbage, but even I can tell this is crazy premature. Or....they just wanted cheap garbage for quick money. I noticed that the last volume was in early 2023, while the priors had consistent releases. So...either the series finished after only four volumes, which is weird for the genre, or the publisher didn't want any more of it due to poor sales or reception, which is common for the genre, but weird for an anime adaptation to be greenlit after it. It kinda reminds me of the "Candidate for Goddess" situation, when the "it thing" was endless mindnumbing Evangelion clones. They greenlit and immediately began production of that before the manga even, like, had a story. Things were pretty bad back then, but it still doesn't even begin to compare to the insane trend happening right now. I won't be shocked if a new isekai novel is announced with an anime adaptation of it announced at the same time. |
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Hal14
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This isn't an isekai Also, there is a slightly different synopsis that was used in yen press reveal article from a year ago: animenewsnetwork.com/news/2023-07-01/yen-press-reveals-16-new-licenses-5-new-audiobooks-4-webcomics/.199860
Not particularly original sounding but slightly better than the synopsis used in this article |
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Andrew Cunningham
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The fifth volume came out in September 23 and started a second arc. That's certainly a relatively long gap, but hardly unusual. Some authors are just slower writers, and if they're heavily involved in the anime adaption, that can slow things down even further.
This tweet says the sixth volume is being held up by the illustrator's illness. |
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yeehaw
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I was also thinking that. I'm sure it makes sense in the series but it's a weird description for sure |
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