Monday, June 5, 2017

The Redo of a Healing Magician: Transcendental Healing of Instant Death Magic and Skill Copying (Novel): [My Comments/Reviews/Spoilers]

Kaifuku Jutsushi no Yarinaoshi: Sokushi Mahou to Skill Copy no Choetsu Heal (Novel): [My Comments/Reviews/Spoilers]

Link:
Status (of the novel): Ongoing
My Reading: Reading & On Hold
My Comments/Reviews/Spoilers are Based on: Web Novel up to: Web Vol 1-2, Vol 3 Ch 0-1 (Translated)

Atmosphere: Semi-Light & Dark Fantasy
Type (Transported to Another World): Reincarnation to the Past
*Cause of Death (if known): No Death
*Reincarnation: MC former-self 4 year ago
*Initial Abilities Gain after Reincarnated (If any): None, An inner voice telling him to get stronger.
Previous Life Basic Information: A Male, 18 year old (educated guess). Healer Hero
Other World Setting (World/Backdrop Setting): A Fantasy Sword and Magic World. Medieval. There are Monster and Other Race.

Main Character: Human Male, 18 year old (educated guess). Healer Hero (previous life), Human Male, 15 year old. Healer Hero [MC four year ago] (new life)
MC Personality/Character: Unsure of what his previous personality/character was but it was probably a naive villager that was tricked and uses until broken as a person. MC self-admit that he is a broken person. Our MC is a sadistic manipulative person with some humanity left. We can call our MC a half crazy person with the way he think (inside his head) and he already develop a twist logic with his thin skin (patience) when being push.

A character guessing our MC character (Web Vol 2 Epilogue):
A hedonist who does not believe in anyone apart from himself. His personal principle is to always decide on his feelings, not about loss or gain, but he becomes an extreme realist during the implementation phase, taking the opportunity to get profit as well. He thoroughly prepares to do fun things, removing the anxiety factor, chooses what he can do and calmly implements it. The troublesome type. On top of not being able to predict what they will do, when they need to take action, they come at you with a plan with no gaps. At one glance, he looks mad, but he is actually not a lunatic. If he was mad, he would not be able to take such systematic actions. Rather, he may enjoy being conscious that he is mad.  

Romance:
There are nothing you could call normal romance if there any.

Mature Content (Subject, Topic, Content, and anything that may be inappropriate for general reader):
  • Sex (imply)
  • Rape (imply) - homosexual, heterosexual, reverse rape, gang rape.
  • Killing (normal)
  • Torture (Physical, Mental, and Sexual)
My Comments/Reviews/Spoilers: Our story begin with the climax battle between the party of hero and the demon lord. The other combatant hero fought with the demon lord but was overwhelming by her power. There our MC who was seen as a trash and a backup potion for them was ignoring their order to heal them and step froward and defeat the demon lord himself. Our MC who was drugged, abused (physically and sexually), and uses for many year discover the whole scheme/truth of this demon vs human war after he finally gain poison resistance to the drug a few month back before this final battle. That a certain country wanted a magic object which is in the heart of the demon lord. There MC planned and execute the plan to uses the same magic object that kept a certain human country into going into war with the demon. With this magic object, that certain human country plan to conquer the world. Unlucky for that certain country, our MC uses it in hope to change his past and get his revenge on who did him wrong. Our MC target for revenge is his hero party member and that certain country. (For more information about the hero party and the above mention, go read; WEB Vol 1, Prologue and Web Vol 2, Ch 16). 

Story so far after the above:
Vol 1: Our MC is now 14 year old turning 15 in a few days is just a normal village boy. However for some reason our MC is hearing a strong inner voice to tell him to do something and get stronger. For no reason other then a gut feeling to trust that voice, our MC did what the inner voice told him to do and gain an eye power that told him the truth (of his other life and his desire for revenge). Our MC now know the truth (gain back his other life memory) start preparing to gain the ability to have poison resistance a kick start. There our MC follow the same route as his old life when he turn 15 year old. MC is invited to the castle and treat as honor guest as a Hero. He then has his virginity taken and then enjoy a life of lust for a few day until he did his first healing. There MC still follow the same path but steal other people EXP and ability in secret. Still following the same path, MC refuse to heal after his first heal, was drugged and then was uses and abuse (physically and sexually [mostly by male]) until MC gain poison resistance a few month later. MC then scheme and execute the plan for revenge on his first target (first princess of a certain country/ Magic Hero) after breaking out of jail. After get rid of the guard, our MC trick then trap the first princess in her room before he physically and sexually torture her like she order her male subordinate to do to him when he was drugged. After torturing her, he suppress her memory and then give her a new identity as his loyal servant and lover. He then fake the princess death by fire and then escape with the princess. (note: I think the MC is just making an excuse not to kill the princess but it not that he can't or won't. He can and will.) MC enter a town know for it outlawness. It seem there a problem with the water in town but it doesn't concern MC. MC then bought a female child demi-human wolf as his slave while baiting her of her revenge against those that turn her into slave and save her village to gain her loyalty. MC did save the village and that slave was turn loyal.     
Vol 2: Due to MC forgetting to kill a certain person when escaping the castle with the princess and the saving of the demi-human village, it rouse the military to the lawless town. While trying to leave to another town, he encounter the sword saint (female) who he fail to negotiate to let them go so he fought her. He won by inserting a memory of the dark secret and dealing the kingdom she is protecting. Being overwhelming by the memory she fainted. When she woke up, our MC act out with the princess in telling a story that half true (kingdom darkness) and half false (about MC party and purpose) about the darkness of the kingdom. While be in a state of confusion by the story and affect by lust drug cause by MC, the sword saint give her first time (virginity) to MC. After that event the sword saint help MC gather information while the wolf girl cautious MC that the sword saint look like a friend of her that became a troublesome lover with the way sword saint acting toward MC. MC noted and move on as more trouble is on the horizon. MC home village and it people are killed and those that still alive are held hostages to bait MC out. MC finding out many fact that anger him and though he kill, scheme, and  expose the kingdom darkness in a grand way to the public while escaping capture after he done that.
Vol 3 Ch 0-1: MC head toward the demon control/own territory.
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It a revenge novel, don't expect a normal MC. The mature content (both sexual and inhuman stuff)  on this novel are all borderline. It "dark fantasy" so expect bad thing to happen but the atmosphere is not that dark, it just cruel. Any further and the rating would change. There no "light" moment without thinking there some evil plan behind it. Our MC is not overpowered but he does have unique skill that make him strong. 

Overall, it a OK read if you like broken MC with revenge as a goal who don't mind using any method including (inhumane) to do the job.

Saturday, June 3, 2017

Because Janitor-san Is Not a Hero (Novel): [My Comments/Reviews/Spoilers]

Yomuin-san wa Yuusha ja Arimasenno de (Novel): [My Comments/Reviews/Spoilers]

Link:
Status (of the novel): Ongoing
My Reading: Reading & On Hold
My Comments/Reviews/Spoilers are Based on: Web Novel up to: WN Vol 0-1, Vol 2 Ch 1-49 (Translated), Web Novel RAW Up to: WN Vol 6 Ch 113 (Google Translated)

Atmosphere: Down to Earth & Semi-Serious, Grey
Type (Transported to Another World): Summoning (Group - School, 79 individuals)
*Purpose for Summoning (if any): Whimsical order from the Royal family 
*Summoner (If known): Magic User
*Initial Abilities Gain when Transported (If any): None (it was stolen)
Other World Setting (World/Backdrop Setting): A Fantasy Magic & Sword World. Medieval. There are monster and other race.
  • The novel may described the world as in between the industrial revolution and World War II, but in place of machines there is magic. However that doesn't stop it from being a medieval world since not everyone can uses magic. The most common form of distance travel are sail ship and horse carriage.
Main Character: Male, 26 year old. Japanese Nationality. High School Janitor.
*MC role in this summoning: Have his blessing (sword) stolen while the blessing was happen, he was suppose to be a summon as a "hero" like the rest but now he a "nobody".
MC Personality/Character: Best describe as an underdog with an underdog/loser mind set at the beginning. However he become somewhat of an apathy person who indifferent about the other world. One of the other worldlier describe our MC as stubborn, eccentric, and narrow-minded but still have  compassion to help people within his reach. Can be cold and ruthless at time. Sometime MC go philosophical on us when he thinking about something. Like to draw as a hobby. (but there always some type of message behind his art as they interpret it). Seen as a person who out of touch with society that not going anywhere, a person who lack a goal in life.
MC Ideas, Creations, and/or Recreation from his previous life (Either make it himself or have someone else make it for him): None/Not Yet

Mature Content (Subject, Topic, Content, and anything that may be inappropriate for general reader):
  • Attempt Rape that turn out be an Act (officially called extreme Sexual Harassment)
  • Attempt Rape
  • Rape (aftermath statement)
  • Torture (Off Screen and just stated as fact)
  • Sex (imply)
My Comments/Reviews/Spoilers: The best description of the story plot would be the 2nd link.

Here how the story so far:
Vol 0: Get summoned and MC has his sword (blessing) stolen while in-between world in front of the goddess who was giving the blessing. The goddess felt sorry for the MC and decide to do what she can to help by alternating his exit point in this summoning and give him a year supply of food and a magic book.
Vol 1: Our MC is drop on top of a mountain top cave. There our MC spent over an entire year on top of that mountain along side with a magic beast that look like a snow leopard. It was originally just MC, the parent magic beast, and her child up on the mountain top but the mother was hunt down and killed by people because some noble request for it (to show off). For a whole year after the parent magic beast die, MC and the child live on the top of the mountain alone. One year later, another group of hunter came to the mountain with the goal as last time but this time they brought a "hero". Not wanted to be kill, our MC lurk a group of monster to attack the hunter. Probably out of whim our MC didn't kill the student hero (female) and took her away back to the cave. She was allow to leave as long as she don't talk about MC but when she headed back down to the village, she discover she was charge with some crime that she didn't do and head back to the cave to hide. Our MC went down to the village and start gather information and join the hunter guild (think of them as adventurer guild in other novel). Having to meet and deal with both fool and asshole people (inside the guild and outside), then finally a group of religious people came to help solve the student hero innocent. During the time before her trial and during the trial, the hero student was attack by assassin. She was proven innocent of any wrong doing of the crime that was put on her. The hero student who stolen our MC also came to the trial. He met our MC in a secret talk which didn't transmit to his companion which try to kill our MC later. However they fail and was about to be kill by MC when the "thief" blessing hero stop him and tell MC to let them go (completely ignoring the fact that they try to kill MC). MC and that hero fist fight to see whether to let these people scot-free or prison. While both side use underhand method (MC hit the hero in the family jewel, while MC got shot by magic gun from outside interference from one of the hero companion). The MC was proclaim the winner but it was not a happy ending for the MC as he has gun shot wound. Without saying a word MC left while still healing with his snow leopard. (Note: while it true they were sent to prison, they got out of prison just as easily when requested by that same hero who lost to MC. Personally as the reader I would called this hero as a selfish brat who playing hero for his own self interest while saying it for other or protecting them He don't self reflect and even blame adult for most of his problem.) 
Vol 2: While riding on a sail ship, our MC was throw overboard by the weather and got stuck on some island. He was rescue not long by a group of hunter and brought to nearby city. There our MC was told in a message to stay in the city by his traveling companion until they meet up there. While wasting time, our MC decide to buy a slave (that is still legal in this country that he wash up on) that wouldn't betray him. He bought a bat beastman (female, 30 year old) who turn herself into a slave to pay off her drunken and violent husband debt and at the same time divorce him while holding a desire to found her child killer after she is bought. In this country beside slavery that is still legal, female are not allow to divorce their husband unless they turn themselves into slave then there status as a normal person is voided. After MC bought her, he train her to be a hunter. During this time, her former family member started to bother and interfere with MC. In the end a bunch of behind the scene stuff happen and MC kill his slave former family member leader and her former husband in a duel. She herself is set free from slavery but still has a debt. MC left town with his snow leopard afterward.
Vol 3: Part 1: The ship that MC want to ride will not be in port until several month later so our MC is going to stay around the local area to waste time. MC encounter trouble with a little girl that try to kill him for revenge and meeting a teacher hero. Our MC travel around the local area as a hunter, from fishing village to a forest village. Save an abandon disable baby dragon. Met a bone race. Save a fishing village from pirate. Learn how to made herb medicine from a grandma. Slept with a "sex worker" after he fail his hunter promotion exam. During a festival where our MC invited the "sex worker" to town, the town was attack by monster. They repel the monster but the little girl try to sneak attack MC but end up killing the "sex worker". MC got piss off at that action and start a duel with her and killed her. Part 2: Retook the promotion test and pass but turn down the promotion after he was request to do a mandatory quest to take down the bone race. Went to forest village get some wood to build shield. MC was force to do the mandatory quest and accept his promotion by being blackmail by a student hero while using the hero teacher as a front. A three way murder plan was activated: student hero want to uses our MC by telling him to murder the teacher hero (while later kill MC too). While teacher hero plan to murder student hero (unlikely to do it even if he plan to) because he fear the student plan to use MC until of he become no use then kill him. While our MC don't trust the student hero and he won't kill the teacher hero knowing that hero teacher is in no position to do anything, so our MC plan to kill student hero by the assistant of the bone race that they are chasing after. Student hero die and no one the wiser as everyone believe it was the bone race that did it.
Vol 4: Our MC travel on a ship and land on a place that very similar to a Chinese culture. Stay at port until the ship can leave again. Explore ruin and got acquainted with a friendly local hunter. Got introduce to a "geisha" place and was requested to act like a bad customer to train a rookie. After several event, our MC help paid off that rookie debt before leaving port.
Vol 5: Landed in the desert port. Did some quest, meet new people, and even watch over a rookie hunter. However that rookie die when he finally become an independent hunter. Several hero student are also there but left MC alone and not bother him while they did some behind the scene work to clean up some dark secret of the country. By the end of the volume, while doing a quest our MC and other hunter fell down a hole to a ruin. Most hunter return after getting out of the hole while our MC is still down there that caught his interest.
Vol 6 Ch 112-113: MC while still in the ruin, he draw a picture of a forgotten goddess statue of the land before exiting the ruin. Encounter a dark elf that give him a ride to the nearest village.  
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It a story about an underdog trying to live a decent life and living but every so often there an asshole  or two trying to bend the rule to their own advantage and screwing the MC up. It no wonder the MC hasn't gone mental on them yet. If this novel use another summon character in this novel as the MC then this novel would most like become a dark fantasy genre but it not. This is NOT a dark fantasy novel but it close to it. This novel already has shown us that people with special background can get away with almost anything even high crime as long as they leave no solid evident behind or argue someone else out of high crime with their position. It closer to reality then anything else given their level of civilization. There often a sense of sadness or loneliness at the end of each volume but not always. Can be depressing (reading) at time. Our MC is not OP but he not weak; he average compare to other hunter.

I guess this is written in a way that it is shown from a common folk point of view. While the "hero" is causing change all over the place. From killing dangerous monster to introducing a new type of government systems; In another word: culture invasion. Hero are both liked and hated from many point of view that are affect by the hero activity. An example is when a hero did something like dive a dungeon and introduce more gambling game. This cause some common folk to lose their job while at the same time some rich person gain a new business idea.

Another thing, when MC try to make people keep a certain promise. Those that can keep their  promise are either people that have experience the short end of the stick or they themselves are in no position to tell other people about it. While those that can't keep their promise are people in some high position which cause them to directly or indirectly break the promise in some loophole of the promise.
 
Overall it an ok read.