Isekai Walking - Vol. 4 Ch. 30 - Head-to-Head Battle
- Thread starter MangaDex
- Start date
Dex-chan lover
- Joined
- Jun 18, 2018
- Messages
- 1,531
Given what I heard about the later developments of the story in the novel, I'd say this is as good of a point to end it as any.
Just a small tragedy.
Thinking about just considering it the real ending and not reading anymore, letting it remain neat.
Just a small tragedy.
Thinking about just considering it the real ending and not reading anymore, letting it remain neat.
Dex-chan lover
- Joined
- Jun 26, 2018
- Messages
- 2,825
Not the worst ending i seen, so honestly i would not be mad about it.
Just very disappointed.
Supporter
- Joined
- Apr 26, 2018
- Messages
- 1,889
How bad can it get, spoiler?
Dex-chan lover
- Joined
- Feb 18, 2023
- Messages
- 929
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.
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.
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.
Last edited:
Dex-chan lover
- Joined
- Oct 10, 2019
- Messages
- 1,526
thx for the tls
Dex-chan lover
- Joined
- Nov 20, 2018
- Messages
- 5,157
@panzerkampfwagyu, @Chizan, @MontDilanus1343,
I've been sticking it out in the faint hope that the publisher of the manga told the writer that the novel has to be ignored from the point at which it became unrecoverably bad. I'll stop reading the manga if my hopes are disappointed.
I've been sticking it out in the faint hope that the publisher of the manga told the writer that the novel has to be ignored from the point at which it became unrecoverably bad. I'll stop reading the manga if my hopes are disappointed.
