Kenja no Deshi wo Nanoru Kenja - Vol. 16 Ch. 97 - Since Then and From Now On

[shitko]

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck

 

[ConstantErasing]

That's a rather meta way to axe the manga adaptation, I kinda enjoyed it. Sad to see this one go though, by the standards of isekai it was good.

 

[Grimm030]

Dang, I was hoping this one would keep going but another one bites the dust. At least we still have the LN.

 

[Sophie_Hokhmah]

I cant even call it an axe, since it ended in the exact point where the latest arc ends (the one before current one afaik).

And if y'all think it was rushed, not really(?)! Like, they skipped a trip back from Mira which touches a bit more on the politics of that region of the world - and another nail in the board of "our peace treaty is about to end so we need to gather our powerful people again" - and more descriptions of food and spirit bonding. It's been ages so I don't remember if the house-spirit has already evolved from shack to big house... and some things like that.

All in all, I think manga ended in a great place. Quimera Clausen is def the Big Bad of the story and it deserves all this focus on, imo. The oni thing is good to mention but it only becomes more important after this arc, again, maybe I'm misremembering.

I think manga visuals makes a lot of the story a bit better paced and livelier to read, making an already light-hearted story (seems strange to say, I know, but it is very feelsgood, breezy prose) even lighter. Mira is cute. A bit of a pervert, sure, but the story never goes too much into it, except the one-per-volume gag of Mira going to the bathroom to urinate... oh well lmao
good reading

 

[deadvote]

end ?? must be axed but thank too for translate it until it end

 

[Zblurth]

ngl I dropped this a long time ago and just came to check the last couple of chapter and... well I do not feel like I missed that much of an interesting ride seeing how the character interacted but then again judging on the couple of last rushed chapter is not quite right lol...

 

[Kuroageha]

More than axe it's the artist being burned out by doing this series for so long. Same happened to the artist doing Railgun manga he also got burned out.

 

[PoDH]

Dude why people keep calling it "axed"??? I imagine "axed" is when the manga was abruptly stopped. This one has clearly runs its course. Since nowdays most manga is not original source (aka there is novel/game source of it), most manga are now made based on the contracts.

 

[Nanaca]

Such an unsatisfying ending for me. So much was left unexplained, but it got AXED instead. 10 years just for a MEH ending IMO

thank you for translation this series until end guys

Most LN adaptations end up being incomplete. It's a lot more expensive and competitive to run a manga series than to publish a LN. If you want to know the rest, just read the novel, which even has an English translation, unlike many others.

 

[Nanaca]

Dude why people keep calling it "axed"??? I imagine "axed" is when the manga was abruptly stopped. This one has clearly runs its course. Since nowdays most manga is not original source (aka there is novel/game source of it), most manga are now made based on the contracts.

People call "axed" any manga that gets a rushed ending due to external circumstances. Situations where the author doesn't even get a chapter or two to give at least a nominal wrap-up are very rare. Magazine planning is done long-term, so unless it's something extreme, the author would get an advance notice.

And no, most manga series these days are still originals.

 

[Pinnaclen]

I guess this one finally ran its course and met the chopping block.
was a fun ride at least!

 

[monkey123]

There are almost no hentais of this? What's going on?! Mira needs to get lewded.

 

[SpiritedBreak2]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo my favorite TS loli manga! That's why there hadn't been updates in a long while... the manga got sacked and the author was given two chapters to end things up.

I only picked this up within the last year and really enjoyed it. Even to this day.

It's another manga relegated to LN jail. I have a lot of trouble imagining characters and monsters when they are not shown to me and so, light novels are really hard for me to get interessed and keep being interessed.

I might give Kenja a try though since we get portraits of all main characters at the end of this final chapter.

But, hey, Mira saying "I'm cute!!" with a peace sign at the end gives me a bit of life (pronoun is probably "washi" but if it was "watashi", author probably read my mind and made her accept her new gender).

The ending is OK. The page before the scene with Mariana is probably the last page adapted from the LN.

Now, the only thing I worry about is the translation of the LN itself. Apparently translation is way behind original Japanese. I found a place to get the first 17 but I'm worried for the translation of the future stories after volume 17.

 

[Lolilith]

Thank you for finishing the whole manga! But man, I see a lot of good manga getting axed lately. This year is not very good lol.

 

[Prominis]

It's been a long time. The Chimera Clausen arc felt long, drawn-out, and not particularly captivating. Putting aside how the main character and their peers would be able to singlehandedly win wars on their own, the arc did a poor job enforcing stakes for the new characters or pushing the main character to meaningfully engage with the underlying themes outside of "hurt innocent spirit = bad".

Maybe it was done better in the novels? Some of the earlier plots, while now incredibly cliche, have some stronger moments inbetween.

 

[Amatsukaze_KaiNi]

Yeah, definitely axed, god dang. All this for a decade. Well, at least it got a proper ending.

 

[DaoFox]

shame the manga ended... but honestly not surprised. Soooo many of the panels were of the lowest passable quality that it would be preferable to just read the novel which seems to have gone faaaaar further.

One of my big regrets though is that the person who was translating the novel while posting their own no longer seems to have their site up anymore v.v I enjoyed their novel quite a bit too and was hoping to read more of it someday v.v