Link:
- https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=122631
- http://www.novelupdates.com/series/because-janitor-san-is-not-a-hero/
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.
*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)
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.
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