Shounen wa Kisu de Mahou wo Copy-suru. ~13th Dokuritsu Majo Shoutai no Kiseki

[wuhugm]

Original Title : 少年はキスで魔法をコピーする。～第十三独立魔女小隊の軌跡 (Shounen wa Kisu de Mahou wo Copy-suru. ~Daijuusan Dokuritsu Majo Shoutai no Kiseki <The Boy Copies Magic with Kiss. ~The Record of 13th Independent Witch Platoon>
Author : Masaichi
Status : 14 WN chapters
Length : 0.05 Million Japanese Characters

Webnovel : Syosetsu

Spoiler for Synopsis:

The country of Levre is a Witch Kingdom. In this Kingdom, girls are born with the power to wield magic, 1 type of magic for each person, in the form of magic circuit engraved in their throat. With the existence of witches, naturally females are holding the power in this Kingdom, and it became a matrilineal society.

Levre Kingdom shares her border with the most powerful militaristic country on the continent, The Steiden Empire. One day, the old Emperor of Steiden proposed to The Queen of Levre but rejected disgracefully. For that reason Steiden started their invasion on Levre.

Initially, the witches easily fended off the invasions, but eventually started to get impoverished by the endless attacks. It's at that moment The Queen heard of a rumor about a boy who possesses abundant magic power yet unable to use magic because not having a magic circuit. She ordered him to be recruited and assigned to the frontier fortress, Margo Fortress.

The boy name was Van. Despite being a son of a viscount house, being a male makes one to have lower position in society, and on top of that it was revealed that he was a child from affairs. With his magic never blossomed, he was eventually demoted into a farmer until he was recruited into Margo Fortress. There, he finally discovered that by kissing a witch, he can copy the magic circuit in their throat, and with his greater magic power he can utilize those magics better than the witches themselves. But the act was accompanied by Van's sudden personality change into a brute, and for a fortress composed mostly of girls, his existence might become a greater threat than The Steiden Empire itself.

Spoiler for FAQ:

1. Is the MC OP?
Maou lvl OP

2. Is this a harem?
Yup

3. Is there snusnu in this novel?
I don't know yet

From the author of Saratoga so it will be good~

[Kyureki]

Been a while since I've seen you start a thread for something with low chapter/word count.

[wuhugm]

^Because Saratoga is really good, and while this one has more serious tone than Saratoga, I think it will retain similar level of quality with it.

Btw, MC's initial rank is Sergeant. This is military so everyone has military rank attached to their name.

[darkofficer]

Don't know why but the synopsis gives me a weird fanfiction like feeling.

[Kyureki]

^ It probably has to do with the part about turning into a brute. That's almost screaming H plot.

[darkofficer]

^ I think more about the part about copying other people power's and being far better at it

[Kyureki]

True, there is that as well.

[wuhugm]

Power stealer/copier should have it's own genre, yes?

In the past, like in the times of Law of Ueki, mimic ability is solely reserved for bad guys

Btw, it seems here, the copied magic is being replaced every time a new one is received, maybe because a person can only hold 1 magic circuit.

[Kyureki]

....So he has to kiss every time he wants to switch magics. Whooo boy, I can see that getting messy quite quickly. >.>

[kaikalaila]

A brute huh? So he is overcome by the dormant feeling of lust due to working on the farm all this while?

[KuruluciaFalFairia]

kiss to unlock power?, where do i heard this before? :thinking:

[wuhugm]

^Cliche boi~

^^Where's the Brazzers logo lol~
This version of brute is kinda interesting though.
He becomes unable to think anything other than the girl he kissed, becoming madly in love with her and rape her, and will protect her no matter what even if he has to kill people, even girls

[Rasty]

^ How does he manage to kiss another girl in that state? And has he done somehting bad already to his previous girl after switching?

[wuhugm]

^But he hasn't kissed another girl, so I dunno~

Btw, reading this author's works, it makes me thinking about is there a need to make an isekai MC to be reincarnated/teleported Japanese? Doing it like this author is great, just make a local MC. Having a Japanese MC just leads to Jap culture import to isekai, like food and modern tech, just ruining the story imho.

[Rasty]

^ I partially agree and partially disagree.

In most seriees not much tweeking would be needed to make the guy local and it would fit great, on the other hand sometimes the reincarnation settign isn't bad.
As for the import, this part is plain stupid. In the first place there is no way one highschooler (or whatever) is capable of replicating Earth knowledge. Leaving out food, that I would seriously doubt anyone without spending his whole life can replicate from different ingredients, the guys always making lots of machinery is just strange. There wasn't even the technology to work with iron (except primitive one, but guns would be impossible) in middleages, not even speaking about chemistry etc. knowledge (nice thing you know ingredients of gunpowder, but are you capable of finding them? the names should be different, or the ingredients itself unknown). The idea of replicating current technology with highschool knowledge (that is not centered on how to really create the things anyway) is just flawed.

[wuhugm]

^Indeed

I think the readers/commenters also have faults in this. Usually when the MC is a Japanese, especially older ones, commenters will make comments like "Why is this guy so stupid?" or "He doesn't know how to make xxx!?" or even straight "Have him invent xxx". If even once the Jap MC "invent" something, it will have high possibility to be repeated later, inventing more and more, eventually becoming a kind of Deus Ex Machina. Basically just stealing Earth's idea to solve problems. That Maoyuu Maou Yuusha was the one responsible for all this I think? The first time someone cheated by revolutionizing farming method etc using Earth's techs.

[kaikalaila]

Oh, something an obsessive yan? haha

Because Isekai genre is booming now, I guess.

[Rasty]

^^ Yeah, though Maouyuu doesen't even have Japanese character (while Maou is generally Japanese in all but nationality). But Maouyuu does not go much further than the farming cheat (having not read the whole of it can't say for sure though) and generally doesen't go into bringing systems (especially financial) that are unusable in middleages.

It's so often that authors use their partial knowledge about something, ignoring the disadvantages and prerequisities for the thing to work. You can't really bring paper money into middleage illiterate society as nobody is gonna believe in the value of some "picture". There were even sereis using government bond (wtf, that doesen't work so good even in modern world) and presenting it as genial idea. Not even speaking about the democracy all the MCs keep pushing to the poor serfs (they don't even want the freedom and don't have the knowledge and logical thinking for the democracy to work anyway, not even speaking about means of communication for them to make any decision on country level in reasonable time and cost).

[wuhugm]

^Later in Maouyuu they brought compass, printing press, cola and shit, oh even guns in the end lol
Never understand why people like Maouyuu so much, it's just cheating.
Imagine this in Sun Tzu's Art of War : Outnumbered? Invent guns. Just lol man.
Dungeon Defense's Dandelion's solution to his lack of funds also similar to that which is why I hate that part.

Paper Money won't work anyway since unlike coins with intrinsic value, Paper Money needs an institution like country to guarantee it's value. In the age where countries rise & fall, Paper Money will literally become scrap paper once it's country gone.

Bringing modern guy and system into isekai just potentially breaking the story. If the main theme is not turning isekai into 2nd earth, might be better to use local guy instead.

[Rasty]

^ I never read so far as I read it in english and never transfered to japanese (also it being in drama format makes it a bit hard to read it for a long time). The part about logic behind the war was really nice though. It also might have been the first series where Maou + Yuusha cooperate to reach some goal (and Maou a good guy, or rather girl).

I generally dislike modern knowledge in fantasy (even if it could work). I get modern knowledge + history, where it is the only possible cheat, but if you throw magic into the mix I don't feel like modern knowledge is welcome neither that it makes good stories.