RE: What BlackAeronaut is Watching (Was Magical Girl Spec Ops)
06-13-2019, 09:08 AM (This post was last modified: 06-13-2019, 09:10 AM by ECSNorway.)
06-13-2019, 09:08 AM (This post was last modified: 06-13-2019, 09:10 AM by ECSNorway.)
Yeah. Apparently there is a light novel series, I'm keeping my eyes out for a translation.
Another novel series I've recently started is "The Magic In This Other World Is Too Far Behind!". At first it comes off like a standard isekai -- three teenagers are summoned to another world, one of them is the hero, one is the girl, and the hero is supposed to defeat the Demon Lord.
Reiji, the Hero, is all for it, shonen hero all the way, and throws himself into things enthusiastically.
Mizuki, the Girl, is right there alongside him, crushing on him, learning magic to fight alongside him, and so on.
Suimei, isekai-jin number 3... is Not Happy. He thinks the whole 'defeat the demon lord' quest is suicidally stupid and just wants to go home. He refuses to go and gets very upset when he learns that they don't have a way to send the kids home, so he sulks around the castle while the others train and such.
Now, in most stories, this would be the guy who eventually gets co-opted by the villains to turn up by surprise as an antagonist to the Hero round about 2/3rds of the way through the story. Kind of like Yui Hongo in Fushigi Yuugi.
Nope. Suimei is, in fact, the protagonist. This is his story. You see... as you've probably guessed from the title... he's a mage. Reiji and Mizuki, like most of the general population, have no clue about this, because The Masquerade. And Suimei isn't interested in letting on to anyone that he is, because he doesn't want them finding out.
Nope, he's gonna do his own thing, and set everything up so that -- if Reiji and Mizuki survive -- he'll have a way home ready and waiting for them when it's over. And he's swiftly discovering that Earthly magics are centuries more advanced than the other world's.
Needless to say, he's a shonen protagonist, the plot ain't gonna let it be that easy for him.
This series has been released on Kindle for a while by J-Novel Club, but they're finally doing a hardcopy release.
Another novel series I've recently started is "The Magic In This Other World Is Too Far Behind!". At first it comes off like a standard isekai -- three teenagers are summoned to another world, one of them is the hero, one is the girl, and the hero is supposed to defeat the Demon Lord.
Reiji, the Hero, is all for it, shonen hero all the way, and throws himself into things enthusiastically.
Mizuki, the Girl, is right there alongside him, crushing on him, learning magic to fight alongside him, and so on.
Suimei, isekai-jin number 3... is Not Happy. He thinks the whole 'defeat the demon lord' quest is suicidally stupid and just wants to go home. He refuses to go and gets very upset when he learns that they don't have a way to send the kids home, so he sulks around the castle while the others train and such.
Now, in most stories, this would be the guy who eventually gets co-opted by the villains to turn up by surprise as an antagonist to the Hero round about 2/3rds of the way through the story. Kind of like Yui Hongo in Fushigi Yuugi.
Nope. Suimei is, in fact, the protagonist. This is his story. You see... as you've probably guessed from the title... he's a mage. Reiji and Mizuki, like most of the general population, have no clue about this, because The Masquerade. And Suimei isn't interested in letting on to anyone that he is, because he doesn't want them finding out.
Nope, he's gonna do his own thing, and set everything up so that -- if Reiji and Mizuki survive -- he'll have a way home ready and waiting for them when it's over. And he's swiftly discovering that Earthly magics are centuries more advanced than the other world's.
Needless to say, he's a shonen protagonist, the plot ain't gonna let it be that easy for him.
This series has been released on Kindle for a while by J-Novel Club, but they're finally doing a hardcopy release.