The Magic in this Other World is Too Far Behind! Volume 1
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4.1 • 11 Ratings
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- $12.99
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Publisher Description
Suimei and two of his best friends find themselves mysteriously summoned to another world. There’s a cute princess, magic galore, a Demon Lord that needs to be defeated, and a world that needs to be saved—the works! Too bad Suimei isn’t interested. His friends are all too ready to play the parts of heroes, but Suimei just wants to get home. He has an advantage as a magician... but he’s in for a rude awakening when he finds out what actually passes for magic in these parts.
Customer Reviews
Good book
A Really good book in my opinion.
Hrmm? Not much happens here.
The title of this series tells more of a story than the 300 somewhat pages do. There are literally only 4 notable things that happen in this volume, and they are all kind of told in the title and the implied isekai genre.
*Spoiler alert* for what it’s worth?
1. Protagonist is summoned to another world.
2. Protagonist bullies an idiot.
3. Protagonist fights a monster.
4 Protagonist leaves town. (This is the epilogue)
The rest is a bunch of words that are often repeated a million times and not even in the same passage. There are often times when the protagonist reflects on moments that have already been described at great length, in equal, absurdly tedious length.
I understand a little about Japanese language and the need to repeat one’s self to capture certain nuances, I even appreciate it. I also understand that those nuances can often be lost in translation/localisation. However this is NEXT level. Almost as if it is written as a high school student trying to attain a certain word count as a prerequisite for a writing assignment.
I’m going to try one more volume in the hopes that one particular character gets fleshed out a little, but that is only because of my personal interests in characters that display masochistic tendencies.