Man this manga is my guilty pleasure. Such a simplistic concept yet its so great.
There's no guilt here. This is a genuinely good manga. It knows how to pace, it knows how to characterize, it knows how to show a mystery and let you try and figure it out before telling you, it's a refreshing take on a common concept, and its got a really great and engaging plot.
This isn't isekai trash, some LN that got a manga adaptation and doesn't know how to actually build a world so it relies on the work done through popular games. This is an actual-ass Manga. Enjoy it.
Ginko seemed like she was having fun fighting door guy
Cause she was. Ginko loves to fight, and
wants to die in battle. The wish that brought her here was one where she could finally die a warrior's death. It's one of the twists that makes this such an interesting manga, because most of the time if there's cultural clash its between the more egalitarian transported character with a more rigid and oppressive world. Here, the last time humans have fought each other is beyond the living memory of even elves and dwarves, the idea of killing or even
hurting another person is deeply disturbing and even when characters are threatened they don't like to even entertain it.
Ginko doesn't give a shit. Ginko wants to die. Ginko has killed so many people she can't remember them all. Ginko has an utterly insane worldview that, while familiar to us because of our understanding of Bushido, is appropriately shocking and horrifying to the people around her, and takes the demons by complete surprise too. She'll cut her arm off because she owes a debt. She can't be moved by hostages because she's sure the hostage wants to die because they were captured. When the goblins fused together to create the goblin king, she was like "hey now it's not fair let me do this alone cause there's only one of them." She has attempted to commit sudoku already. SHE KILLED HER DAD IN CHAPTER 1 THAT'S HOW SHE BECAME A SAMURAI IN THE FIRST PLACE
While Ginko is our protagonist and our window into the world, we see ourselves reflected more in the people around her. Good folks who don't want to die but are willing to fight to help others. Inquisitive and kind scholars, people trying to make up for what they see as past mistakes, people who train to try and keep the ones they love safe. It makes us root for them, and root and care for the world. Then there's Ginko, who hugged the severed head of someone she killed because he said she, too, would one day die in battle and that was just the nicest thing anyone could've ever said.
Of course, the manga doesn't need to dwell on this. Because it actually knows how to characterize people and pace a story. You can even forget that our main character's entire motivation is to get herself killed, because the adventure is so gripping and alive. But that she's totally bonkers is one of the strong points of the manga, and it will show itself whenever she gets to try and get killed.
