Katainaka no Ossan, Kensei ni Naru ~Tada no Inaka no Kenjutsu Shihan Datta noni, Taisei shita Deshi-tachi ga Ore wo Hottekurenai Ken~ - Vol. 4 Ch. 19…
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Imho, story itself is good old simple shounen. This kind of thing much better working in manga format. And manga have really good art, especially for action.
And, as shounen lover, could say, what sword fights without much magic or some op super power quite rare.
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Fascinating given how average it's been so far. Seems like things are actually gettng more interesting, but the Japanese is only 2 chapters ahead, so that doesn't explain it. Japanese taste continues to confound me.
Very good art, and fine story are more than enough to make a manga very enjoyable to read. Everything doesn't need to be Vagabond to be popular, far from it.
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I haven't read the LN or original VN, but if I could give my 2 cents just going off the manga, I think it's a combination of a low-stress, feel-good overarching plot combined with exceptional fight choreography.
Folks here have mentioned the art, which is pretty good, but not on the level of something like Berserk or Vagabond. Rather, where I think the manga truly shines is the thought put into the fight scenes. In most run of the mill isekai or shonen manga, the actual physical details of swordplay are glossed over. There's a flurry of slashes as the combatants move faster than the eye can see, they zip past each other with cuts appearing on their bodies after the fact, and so on. There's a bit of that in this manga, such as with the Knight Commander's battles, but for most of the other fights the artist seems to take care to portray the ways a swordsman would actually move and the various things he'd take into account in terms of the environment, the position of every part of his and the enemy's body, and so on.
These strengths are most evident in the fights Heimbritz has had. In his first training match with Beryl, the viewer is treated to the exquisite detail of how Beryl flipped his wrist to deflect Heimbritz's swing by catching the latter's blade with his own crossguard and then, in the same motion, bring his own blade overhead to bop Heimbritz. And then, in this current battle, we really get a sense of how brutal and no-holds-barred the evil assassin guy is, and just how Heimbritz can match him: Again, the artist depicts in detail how the combatants fight not just with their swords but their entire bodies, grappling with each other on the ground, breaking an arm, then stabbing a leg with a piece of wood. This makes for a much more engaging fight scene than you usually get in manga like this.
All this is combined with a story that itself isn't really as brutal and no-holds barred. Unlike Goblin Slayer, or much less Berserk (I love Berserk, so don't take this as a criticism!), the setting of this manga doesn't seem as utterly malevolent or callous towards its inhabitants. Indeed, Beryl's profound decency shines through constantly--the reader just has to feel a twinge of affection when he covers up the eyes of the girl who tried to betray and steal from him so a "child" like her doesn't have to see a scene of horrid death.
For a lot of people, especially older ones (like me ;_; ), I think that adds greatly to the draw of this manga. When you're old and your body is giving out, it's nice to withdraw even for a little bit into a fantasy where an old guy can still keep up with his younger proteges, and even more than that, where his compassionate and, for lack of a better word, soft nature is praised and tended to rather than coldly snuffed out. Combine that with extremely well planned battle scenes and you have a recipe for something with at least slightly wider appeal than the typical shonen.
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Sacrificing an assassin of such skill just to get rid of a tool like Twilight definitely wasn't worth it.
He ought to be the "your enemies don't care if you are tired or not and won't politely wait for you to catch your breath" kind of guy.
He ought to be the "your enemies don't care if you are tired or not and won't politely wait for you to catch your breath" kind of guy.
Bye.
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This manga hits on the art, style, pacing and execution. If it gets an anime they can’t slack on it at all.
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oh hey one of the few series i actually dropped because of how irritated i became with it
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Unless the sacrifice was to conceal something that was part of the greater plan. For example, if the sister is integral to the plan, can't have Twilight blabbing about where she is or who might have her.
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Muscles used: for pushing like he did you mostly use your shoulders, whilst the stabbed area only needs to be functional.
But get stabbed in the leg and you won't be able to walk since every single leg muscle is used for that.
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