2013-03-04, 09:52 | Link #3142 |
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Is this story any good later on? I read the first volume and it was decent, but 2,3,4,5 made me think the author is going down hill fast.
At first I thought it was cool to see guns in a LN, but by the time is volume 3 everyone is slinging magic. Bullets get fired so recklessly to a totally useless effect. The whole hysteria mode thing get used so many times it make me wonder if 1/10 of the volume involve the author telling us about hysteria mode or it is variant. By the time Sherlock Holmes himself show up it became a joke. Not to mention the author's overwhelming need to insert all the villain girls back into the story to be a harem girl. Riko was interesting V1, she was not in V4, for the author has to insert a law about juvenile crime to make it ok for her to come back from bombing an Airline. Oh, there is also Aria's Mom's 890 years old prison sentence, which is also an absurd plot point. Maybe I am just silly expecting a harem LN to be somewhat interesting? |
2013-03-04, 22:07 | Link #3144 | |
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I don't think he even establish it. Given the idea future world is full of crime that people now draft high school students as armed axillary police (Yet paradoxically deny them the right to kill), then the future of the world is damn grim. Yet...there is little sign the world is any different than present day Japan (or England, or China, whatever). In fact the whole environment appear to be "Classic Japanese High School" setting, except with a Fire Arm law that is way liberal than anything current world situation with exception of lawless state like Somalia. The author could had made the story a lot more interesting to see the MC and Aria take down more mundane foes(Italian Mob, Japanese Yukaza, or Chinese Triad, etc). He tried to make the SS Division (I.E magic users) to be some ultra-secret group, but practically ever female character introduced have some kind of ability, and all enemies must be spell casters which completely diminish the mystique of the "mysterious I-U" rather fast. I find Riken the Sniper girl to be the most interesting of the group, because she actually HIT her target now and then. So there is the crux of what I am asking. Does the story get better past V4...or does it make even less sense? |
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2013-03-05, 00:47 | Link #3145 |
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Makes even less sense i think. Still a fun ride if you like some of the characters. Riko is my number 1 tho, her lolita fashion style plus her character development = win win. Reki got second place only cause the development came later but still just as awesome.
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2013-03-05, 20:54 | Link #3147 |
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Good thing I stopped at V 4 with Aria start firing lazer beams then.
Also, as a final point, I noticed in V 1 the story mentioned Aria being taken back to the London Butei office. I wish it was the London Police, because the way this is sounding, "armed mercs" effectively has replaced police as head of law and order. Life is weird, isn't it. If not for lolis and romance comedy, the back setting of Hidan No Aria may be one of the most Deystopian outside cyberpunk series like Deus Ex. |
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It could had been great watching them fight each other over the world. But noooo, in V4 suddenly all her crimes get erased (I don't know about you, the stuff she did in today's world would land her in Fed Max if not death penality), and she join the harem. I see Diurnal, the mysterious descendant of Jon Arc, and what she do? Join the harem in like...5 minutes. If all these criminals warrant did crimes that goes up to 200-400 years, then how is they are left free to go to class while Aria's Mom end up in jail for upward of centuries? Just how messed up is this future world's legal system? Quote:
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2013-03-06, 09:36 | Link #3158 |
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While I am no fan of bleach, I think Bleach handle the it better. In chapter one we already "see" magic when that girl walk through the MC's bedroom. So we know magic is not that common.
Here, we have the ultra secretive "Magic user" at school, and they are no longer a secret by volume II. I-U being this super powerful organization? Well, the #2 showed up in what? Volume 3? Not to mention the "Professor" himself showed up in V4. Make you wonder if it is not much of an organization than a regular club. So even for shonoen battle mangas, it has very low value other than Rom-Com stuff. The other problem is the hysteria mode thing. At first the author tried to scientifically explain hysteria mode as sexual arousal lead to chemical production etc etc...then by V3 everyone is shooting fireballs from their palm anyway. I think my favorite volume was actually V1, where Riko did that plane hijacking, bomb the plane, and fled, and with his fellow Butei's help, they were able to land the plane safely. After that....not so much at all. |
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