Shoukoku no Altair Gaiden - Toukoku no Subaru - Vol. 6 Ch. 31
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Ohohoho, he's still alive. This three factions war might not be over, everyone will keep in check of one another. The Qin Prince who seems like a useful hostage at first can still play a somewhat active role, even if it's just as his retainer's puppet and symbol.
Thank you for the chapters
Thank you for the chapters
Compared to the original, I'm still not sure how I feel about this spinoff featuring magic instead of sticking to pretty hard alt history. Nevertheless the basic military back and forth on all the different levels of tactics, strategy, politics, and individuals remains solid and enjoyable. Plenty of wheels within wheels, multilayered plans and room for both upsets and for things to go exactly as one might expect too which itself is good in a series like this. Thanks for the chapters indeed!
I don't agree. This has nothing on the original series.
Yes, the magic is stupid and the prince should just be the prince and nothing of this gender-bender bullshit. But the main problem is that it feels weird that the factions are equally matched when the island was conquered at full strength and with all their royal family, special weapons, and super warriors. It seems like a cop-out just to have this story going and portray the protagonists as "geniuses" when clearly the antagonists are just posed as idiots by the author.
I definitely don't think it's remotely as good as the original. That said, I think you're being somewhat unfair to it as well. The impression I got is this is like an Iraq 2011 or Afghanistan 2020 sort of situation (less of a gap in fact). There's zero doubt that the great power could crush them like cockroaches... if it actually wanted to put in the effort vs domestic politics. America went in hard and overwhelmingly when it actually was fighting the existing power, and obliterated the opposition government "at full strength and with all their royal family (to the extent Sadam or the Taliban had a sort of royalty), special weapons (scud missiles etc), and super warriors" without the slightest difficulty. But there's a difference between that and staying power over multiple decades. It sounds like the only reason Cinili bothered in the first place here was because of the Prince pushing it as part of his "exile". They don't consider Kusanagi particularly valuable, nor should they on the face of it given the times. If the prince lost, that'd be seen as an embarrassing failure showing his further unsuitability (and in fact probably a lot of corrupt domestic players would be delighted if he had an enormous failure) but not something that'd reflect on the mainland, nor would it consider the place any sort of threat either. Hence why part of the threats going on between the princes involve effectively purposefully pissing off the mainland.
So while things aren't as well done, the atmosphere isn't quite as good, the characters not quite as varied, I nonetheless don't think you're right in saying it's in any way weird that an exiled prince with a colony guard wouldn't be the same as the main army. On the contrary looking back through history colonial forces were often the dregs in various empires. And the various back and forths are still ok.
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