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Log · 2013-07-09, 09:41

Eh.

Might as well contribute something.

For harem fans and the likes.

I present you 魔技科の剣士と召唤魔王 (not nearly confident enough to translate it into English). It's pretty standard as a harem genre LN but lacks the annoying traits that a lot of harem LN's have. It's also translated into Chinese.

It's pretty new (only has one volume thus far) and given the recent uprising trend for harem LN I have a feeling that this one's going to be fairly popular. I would bet that it has a decent chance of being turned into a anime.

Spoiler for review:

To make a brief summary of the setting basically 15 years ago the world discovered magic as well as mythical beings (basically beings from various legends) in another dimension. Humankind learned to summon these dangerous mythical beings and use their power to great effect. 7 country's formed contracts with these "gods" and gained their alligence as a result. Gods will chose their summoners on their 14th birthday and give them a stigma. Schools have been set up to train summoners and magical swordsman (basically bodyguards that give the summoners time to cast their spell) as a result.

15 years latter after the finding of magic Kazuki Hayashizaki is chosen as a summoner and given a stigma to indicate that. This is surprising since males aren't chosen as summoners due to their low amount of mana compared to females. As the first male to be a summoner Kazuki is under a lot of scrutiny by almost everyone.

To complicate matters his sister (who's a magical swordsman) is against him going into summoner school to train there as a summoner. Because summoners and magical swordsman have a cat mouse thing going on where summoners look down on magical swordsman as inferior so his sister naturally is against him going there. She'll stop him even if it means going to war (bro complex is strong in this one).

Kazuki however is determined to thrive in summoner school and have already determined to give it his all. Even if he's the lowest ranked student (ranked E) and his fellow students intend to demean him he'll prove himself as the strongest summoner.

Does this sound like IS? It should.

However it lacks the annoying violence that Ichika recieves on a routine basis. Well there's some verbal insult going on here and there it's mostly free of female on male double standard violence which I know grates a lot of peoples nerves when it comes to harem LNs.

It's male lead is also decently OP which I know a lot of people enjoy. He's a magic swordsman training as a summoner. His summoning allows him to take and use other girls summoning spells as his own provided said girl has a high enough affection for him which as you can imagine has the potential to turn very, very OP. His own abilities as a magic swordsman is very high.

As for the characters personality, it's pretty standard for a harem LN. There's the bro con deredere not blood related sister, the tsundere childhood friend (which the main character conviently forgot about), the kind sempai with a dark edge behind her kind mask, the nagota yuki clone, and the tomboy girl.

Well these characters are hopelessly cliched they also aren't annoying. Even the tsundere (which I know a lot of people hate) is fairly harmless with her insults and quickly warms up.

It's fights are also decently written with some creative power usuage and the plot develops nicely (for the 1st volume a least).

All in all not a very exceptional LN but worth checking out for harem fans or action fans.

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Log ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ Join Date: Apr 2012	Eh. Might as well contribute something. For harem fans and the likes. I present you 魔技科の剣士と召唤魔王 (not nearly confident enough to translate it into English). It's pretty standard as a harem genre LN but lacks the annoying traits that a lot of harem LN's have. It's also translated into Chinese. It's pretty new (only has one volume thus far) and given the recent uprising trend for harem LN I have a feeling that this one's going to be fairly popular. I would bet that it has a decent chance of being turned into a anime. Spoiler for review: To make a brief summary of the setting basically 15 years ago the world discovered magic as well as mythical beings (basically beings from various legends) in another dimension. Humankind learned to summon these dangerous mythical beings and use their power to great effect. 7 country's formed contracts with these "gods" and gained their alligence as a result. Gods will chose their summoners on their 14th birthday and give them a stigma. Schools have been set up to train summoners and magical swordsman (basically bodyguards that give the summoners time to cast their spell) as a result. 15 years latter after the finding of magic Kazuki Hayashizaki is chosen as a summoner and given a stigma to indicate that. This is surprising since males aren't chosen as summoners due to their low amount of mana compared to females. As the first male to be a summoner Kazuki is under a lot of scrutiny by almost everyone. To complicate matters his sister (who's a magical swordsman) is against him going into summoner school to train there as a summoner. Because summoners and magical swordsman have a cat mouse thing going on where summoners look down on magical swordsman as inferior so his sister naturally is against him going there. She'll stop him even if it means going to war (bro complex is strong in this one). Kazuki however is determined to thrive in summoner school and have already determined to give it his all. Even if he's the lowest ranked student (ranked E) and his fellow students intend to demean him he'll prove himself as the strongest summoner. Does this sound like IS? It should. However it lacks the annoying violence that Ichika recieves on a routine basis. Well there's some verbal insult going on here and there it's mostly free of female on male double standard violence which I know grates a lot of peoples nerves when it comes to harem LNs. It's male lead is also decently OP which I know a lot of people enjoy. He's a magic swordsman training as a summoner. His summoning allows him to take and use other girls summoning spells as his own provided said girl has a high enough affection for him which as you can imagine has the potential to turn very, very OP. His own abilities as a magic swordsman is very high. As for the characters personality, it's pretty standard for a harem LN. There's the bro con deredere not blood related sister, the tsundere childhood friend (which the main character conviently forgot about), the kind sempai with a dark edge behind her kind mask, the nagota yuki clone, and the tomboy girl. Well these characters are hopelessly cliched they also aren't annoying. Even the tsundere (which I know a lot of people hate) is fairly harmless with her insults and quickly warms up. It's fights are also decently written with some creative power usuage and the plot develops nicely (for the 1st volume a least). All in all not a very exceptional LN but worth checking out for harem fans or action fans.