My soggy knees shoujo trap. The positions are undeserved, the characters are undercooked, the MC develops deep relationships with emotional cardboard for little reason and with NO actual display of character development, the gore & violence is largely portrayed by the men, only two out of the half-dozen men presented are any means of Lawful Good—the rest are rapist, conniving assholes because either plot demands it or just no reason whatsoever. Oh, and the edge just exists for edge's sake. You'd think the author would have theming or reasoning to be dipping into Lovecraftian horror like premises with the monsters, but it's just done for cool factor (spoiler: the cool factor wears off fast).

Characters appear out of sheer convenience, and plot tends to happen without flow or coherency. The first big bad is TOLD as intelligent, cunning, charismatic, and influential. He is, instead, a bumbling dodder that explodes kids in a church for zero reason, stalks slave girl MC without manipulating or exploiting her...think SAO villain. No nuance, no brains, just rape. And all the men characters are like this.

The art is good in stills, but the action scenes are shoujo-esque in their awfulness in conveying motion, action, reaction, gravity, etc. You will not be able to follow a scene with any coherency, up to and including combat where she's ripped literally limb to limb but it's the wrong limb not one frame later.

The yuri is a pain in the ass because none of it is justified, displayed, or played out. The author is using heavy undertones to all but take the dolls in their hands, slam them together, ans scream "NOW KISS!" at the top of their lungs.

3/10 would not recommend to anyone.

- He's super smart and has taken over with influence & wits
- Kidnaps a girl in broad daylight
- Beats up a nun in broad daylight
- Defies a general's aide in broad daylight

Yup. Dropped.

And that's my cue to leave. This one isn't going anywhere particularly fast and the edge is done with no rhyme or reason. It's all pretty superficial instead of holding meaning or reasoning.

Can't shake the shoujo in this. Characters pop up when it's convenient instead of letting MC get her hands dirty. All women, all lacking any rounded character. And save for one lofty knight in the Hero's party, all the dudes seem to suck by default. Meh.

Someone asked in the previous chapter why this isn't more popular. I would hazard to say this chapter is why.

Called my bluff. Damn. I'll revise that theory, then.

The undertones still suck tho.

Author tipped their hand.

Flum is a demon, the chimera are either her doing or her influence, the Origin Church is likely demon-held, and there's too many yuri undertones for me to be comfortable with the C plot of the maid who is obviously either the Key To Everything™ or the Dark Lord in disguise.

Pulling on Lovecraft-like mechanics like this doesn't sweeten the pot when you know it's being taken so lightly. Eh, we'll see how it goes.

"Found you"

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NOPE

".....BUT WHY WAS HE BLACK!?"
Necrosis, failure of the liver to filter maladies that then show on the skin. Either or.

When you come for the King, you best not miss.

>God Weaver
>King
>Emperor
>Calamity of Dragons & Humans
>Realizing she could kill the Earth Dragons any time she felt like
>Realizing she could kill Alaba any time she felt like
>Kumo picked a fight with this monster-slaying monster

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"They wanted to gain accolades and rush to their deaths, so I helped them. Don't you think a bunker on the rear line makes a perfect target for cannon fire?"
- T. Degurechaff

Allow me to reply: No.

No, I don't need to read the source material. No, I don't need to give an author leeway or trust that they're mystically, for reasons us mere mortals could never understand, infallible in their own narratives. And no, I will not compromise my own principles to operate at the same level of love & awe you hold for this series.

It wows you. I'm glad for you. I don't necessarily have to be just like you, nor are your statements convincing enough to alter my judgment on this book. It's sloppy. It spends more time on a rolling B plot (humanity's slavery) than its very-necessary A plot (Light's revenge and solving the destruction of his hometown). The hook used to push plots forward (His Gaccha power), is abused and actually hinders the ability to relate to the humane themes of the story. Light is a walking god, bar none. His team consists of eldritch horrors, true ancestors, unstoppable sorcerors, etc. At no given point thus far has ANY major entity posed serious threat to Light or his army. It took 50 chapters to understand that at any point, Light & co could absolutely steamroll every single grouping who subjugate the human race in his world, and the only thing holding him back is the fish hook of the "who ordered the hit/murdered my village" mystery, and the faint possibility that MAYBE one of the tribes actually has a summon that can threaten his being. Took another 5 to conclude the author would not have the stomach to pen out the actual repercussions for committing to what in truth is THE most logical path for Light to take to accomplish all his goals. He's an unstoppable god dicking about on an adventure or six. It's fortunate that other series don't commit the same mistake, like The Executed Sage Reawakens as a Lich And Starts An All-Out War, or The Only Monster Tamer in the World.

And no, the manga doesn't encourage me to think otherwise. Which is why I read it in sparse bursts over the years.

None of what you're stating here is a valid sale. And the reason for that is one of the issues you state: "... in Light's heart for their heinous act back in Chapter 1 (Chapter 0 for both WN and LN) has shattered a 2-year long friendship he once cherished."

Take a step from the story and look at the meta. How does the READER understand the weight of two years without proper context clues? With very, VERY few flashbacks aimed toward the villains? Answer is, they don't. It's not covered (as of this chapter). So for all the reader knows, Light's making his way across the country on a homicidal streak against a party that tricked him in one labyrinth.

Yes, there ARE flashbacks, but they're usually filling in "How the villain got here" (which is background-detailing info almost completely irrelevant to Light's quest), or it's Light power-leveling in the Last Dungeon. Take those away, we're left to assume a complex relationship based on what the author TOLD us, but never SHOWED us.

Therefore, these actions after capturing feel hollow. We aren't shown the torture of his former comrades, we're told they're very painful and miserable. That isn't good enough for the shallow establishment of the primary plot. What we've been shown instead, in static repetition, is Light being underestimated, Light cock-slapping his opponents with this Lv 9999 skills, then Light hauling them off for some off-screen torture.

In short, it's a shounen OP adventure masquarading as a revenge story.

Marian no Danzan, Redo of Healer, The Hero Who Seeks Revenge Shall Exterminate With Darkness—in these revenge stories, the crimes are displayed, often in bullish & gory detail. The revenge isn't hidden away or neatly-filed, but brutal, well-earned, paced, and are typically karmic in view of the very crimes committed. Here, Light cockslaps the opponent in a manner appropriate to a shounen title and then files them away for maybe (hopefully) some later actual karmic punishment. It doesn't measure. As just stated, it's easier to take the story in as an OP main character in a shounen adventure book than as a revenge tale.

tl;dr Because the author's more interested in TELLING over SHOWING, the actual plot hook (the revenge) is just vanilla cringe.

Probably a classmate she just killed.

Distraction tactic means the third could triangle jump the pillars & wall just to get the falling momentum to rend the spider in two.

I remember why I dropped this. The translation is 15lbs of ass in a 5lb bag.

At first, I took this as a joke. But now, this dude has my respect.

Pitiful. Haru held a better outlook on soldier life.