Isekai Walking - Vol. 4 Ch. 30 - Head-to-Head Battle

[SpecialProjectY]

Well, mc not being op and actually receiving a near fatal would is refreshing, he just needs to stretch his legs now...

 

[TestAddress]

New series: isekai cripple

We'll he ain't walking out from that, that's for sure

 

[TestAddress]

Well, mc not being op and actually receiving a near fatal would is refreshing, he just needs to stretch his legs now...

Grimsargh also has an mc that is lame.

 

[Extreme-Tactician]

Sora was so focused on protecting Rurika and Chris, he failed to utilize parallel thinking to higher levels. He was concentrating on dodging and attacking, he failed to realize he was draining his stamina very fast. It's like in Dark Souls, Monster Hunter, or God Eater. You can keep dodging and attacking all you want, but you have to pay attention to your stamina, or your gonna end up exhausted.

Rurika and Chris realized he was using some sort of skill to augment his abilities. They wanted to help him, but Chris couldn't aim her magic, and Rurika was busy fighting off the last of the wolves.

Luckily for Sora, Goblin's Grief was able to do the rest to scare it off. But that wound he suffered is very deep. He's probably broken a few bones at least, and all that wound probably affected some of his internal organs. What's gonna happen after this? Will he and Chris confess their feelings? I sure hope so!

 

[Hikineet]

Thanks for the chapter.

 

[Seinvolf]

Thank u always for ur great work...
^^...

He forgot walking...
(OωO`)...

 

[notinnocent]

RIP mc. I'll leave this 🥒 for you

 

[zokoi19]

Do you really want to know? Which arc?

Non-spoiler summary is WN is R15+, which you wouldn't get from reading the manga thus far.

People are in for some tonal whiplash.

Spoiler: General trends, not events

TL;DR: Series undergoes a lot of "tonal shifts". Like his "Walking" skill becoming irrelevant [JP WN comments/reviews on Kakiyomu point this out]. Manga being fluffy at the start will make that shift worse. I have concerns how they will adapt the WN's basic plot into Manga form without off-putting their original "happy-go-lucky adventure / SoL" audience.

As best as I can recall (it's been months): becomes your standard "Kingdom is actually evil, demons are the good guys". But it was interesting up to and including this point; it was well-executed. Kingdom was involved in a lot of unethical things, that I don't want to type out. Including how they were summoned, and what happens to summoned people. Slavery. Mind control collars. Generational stuff. Eugenics. One of the characters that joins them. And content of some of MC's adventures and who he meets up until then (and what happened to them/missions they are on). Orcs. Absolute slap on wrist (plotwise) for Kingdom involved.

It got a bit gritty. I'm not sure how they are going to adapt it into a PG8 romance-adventure-comedy manga. Let's just say MC here dodged a bullet by being thrown out, and potentially much worse. The slice of life you see here with the two girls is actually mild, and sets a lot of his goals and objectives for later on. (Yes, the girls DO eventually accomplish their objective with MC's help. At least the Kingdom arc was tied off.)

When it got worse: a lot of artificial drama with forced villain of the goddess. Author wasted a lot of text trying to justify it. But it basically boils down to "she ruined the world and made it a living hell (orcs, etc) because she was lonely". Since other gods went down to world, to live with their races. Somehow expected this as justification for her behavior. Something about her power source, megalomaniacal behavior, and sudden (failed) heel-face-turn trying to protect said source.

I stopped reading when it became a "collect the plot tokens in each dungeon across the world to undo the damage she caused". The justifications were too shallow. And the Dungeon chapters (remember: tonal shift) dragged in all arcs, and realized I tended to simply skip them a lot. Even if his Walking skill gets power-scaled out, spending entire chapters about "Dungeon diving" in a "travel the-world-and-see-what's-different adventure novel" was off-putting. And I'm not even sure if there was progress in the romance sub-plot.

thank you for the spoiler, it helped me decide whether to continue this or not

 

[TestAddress]

RIP mc. I'll leave this 🥒 for you

I really wished he died back then instead of getting an immense harem and a list of unusable one-time powers.

 

[SpecialProjectY]

Will he and Chris confess their feelings? I sure hope so!

I love your optimism, but you should be aware how things are going...

 

[Smokeball]

It'd be super hilarious if this is actually the end because it got axed lolololol

 

[screamdoom]

ded

 

[ciera]

F

 

[FinaruVictory]

Hope his skill carries over to his new wheelchair or his adventuring days are over.

 

[AmethystLord]

He'll just walk it off in the next chapter, won't he?

 

[Illusione-Tempus]

Do you really want to know? Which arc?

Non-spoiler summary is WN is R15+, which you wouldn't get from reading the manga thus far.

People are in for some tonal whiplash.

SPOILER STUFF

Geez when you said tonal whiplash I didn't think it'd go on a complete 180

 

[Aichan]

Why are you mad? It's just a prank, bruh!

 

[idc_sao]

Do you really want to know? Which arc?

Non-spoiler summary is WN is R15+, which you wouldn't get from reading the manga thus far.

People are in for some tonal whiplash.

Spoiler: General trends, not events

TL;DR: Series undergoes a lot of "tonal shifts". Like his "Walking" skill becoming irrelevant [JP WN comments/reviews on Kakiyomu point this out]. Manga being fluffy at the start will make that shift worse. I have concerns how they will adapt the WN's basic plot into Manga form without off-putting their original "happy-go-lucky adventure / SoL" audience.

As best as I can recall (it's been months): becomes your standard "Kingdom is actually evil, demons are the good guys". But it was interesting up to and including this point; it was well-executed. Kingdom was involved in a lot of unethical things, that I don't want to type out. Including how they were summoned, and what happens to summoned people. Slavery. Mind control collars. Generational stuff. Eugenics. One of the characters that joins them. And content of some of MC's adventures and who he meets up until then (and what happened to them/missions they are on). Orcs. Absolute slap on wrist (plotwise) for Kingdom involved.

It got a bit gritty. I'm not sure how they are going to adapt it into a PG8 romance-adventure-comedy manga. Let's just say MC here dodged a bullet by being thrown out, and potentially much worse. The slice of life you see here with the two girls is actually mild, and sets a lot of his goals and objectives for later on. (Yes, the girls DO eventually accomplish their objective with MC's help. At least the Kingdom arc was tied off.)

When it got worse: a lot of artificial drama with forced villain of the goddess. Author wasted a lot of text trying to justify it. But it basically boils down to "she ruined the world and made it a living hell (orcs, etc) because she was lonely". Since other gods went down to world, to live with their races. Somehow expected this as justification for her behavior. Something about her power source, megalomaniacal behavior, and sudden (failed) heel-face-turn trying to protect said source.

I stopped reading when it became a "collect the plot tokens in each dungeon across the world to undo the damage she caused". The justifications were too shallow. And the Dungeon chapters (remember: tonal shift) dragged in all arcs, and realized I tended to simply skip them a lot. Even if his Walking skill gets power-scaled out, spending entire chapters about "Dungeon diving" in a "travel the-world-and-see-what's-different adventure novel" was off-putting. And I'm not even sure if there was progress in the romance sub-plot.

Reminds me of A Rank Party wo Ridatsu Shita Ore wa, Moto Oshiego Tachi to Meikyuu Shinbu wo Mezasu how that shit started offf pretty fluffy and a straight up tone shift to some fucked up shit for no reason.

 

[MontDilanus1343]

Reminds me of A Rank Party wo Ridatsu Shita Ore wa, Moto Oshiego Tachi to Meikyuu Shinbu wo Mezasu how that shit started offf pretty fluffy and a straight up tone shift to some fucked up shit for no reason.

I read the WN/LN for that too. That's actually not that bad, since it's "only" one arc.

To be fair, it's more the fault of lazy JP isekai worldbuilding in the first place, than the story as presented.
JP Isekai trope template has young teenagers literally fighting for their lives against Eldrich horrors and abominations.
Universes set where entire teams are brutally murdered -- routinely -- but offscreen, for the JP author's "sensibilities".

The very fact they try to set "fluffy" stories in such grimdark (fridge-logic) universes is the actual fault.

Very, very few properly acknowledge the brutality of the world setting vs fluffiness -- or tone down trope-universe lethality.
(i.e. Doesn't take worldbuilding shortcuts, throws out entire trope of of A-F ranks, battle-oriented missions, JP stereotype mobs.)
"Kukuku....... He Is the Weakest of the Four Heavenly Monarchs" does this well, if you're interested.

 

[Guolker]

This series without Sora won't be the same.
Dammned!