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Hmmm.. I don't think this was set up as a LN ad as such. Nor did it meet Axe-kun, per sé.
It's a full and complete "origin story" in and of itself. This is more of a proper adaptation of what you can expect of a first volume in one of the major multi-volume fantasy cycles, where each part of the larger story is contained within a single book, and quite often each major "arc" published as a trilogy.
(Western publishing has its own Immutable Thradhithions....)
I've a feeling this one was intended to only run as long as this, and that any wonkyness is more of a result of a misjudgement in scripting/pacing regarding the finite amount of pages.
So a "promo" because it does help introduce a segment of the market who ordinarily don't actually read to the larger story.
And "Axe-kun" because it could have had another volume.... But that would mean only more Mopey MC Doing Depressed Soulsearching While Cockblocking Himself. ( and that.... has a limited, and quite saturated, market... )
As-is, well done. With a "proper" resolution and an open ending that leaves room for much, much more.
But honestly... The rather Angsty and quite convoluted morality pulpit-pounding has me turned off from this one.
If the LN continues with this trend it's more for the people who rave about "Waiting for Godot".
It's a full and complete "origin story" in and of itself. This is more of a proper adaptation of what you can expect of a first volume in one of the major multi-volume fantasy cycles, where each part of the larger story is contained within a single book, and quite often each major "arc" published as a trilogy.
(Western publishing has its own Immutable Thradhithions....)
I've a feeling this one was intended to only run as long as this, and that any wonkyness is more of a result of a misjudgement in scripting/pacing regarding the finite amount of pages.
So a "promo" because it does help introduce a segment of the market who ordinarily don't actually read to the larger story.
And "Axe-kun" because it could have had another volume.... But that would mean only more Mopey MC Doing Depressed Soulsearching While Cockblocking Himself. ( and that.... has a limited, and quite saturated, market... )
As-is, well done. With a "proper" resolution and an open ending that leaves room for much, much more.
But honestly... The rather Angsty and quite convoluted morality pulpit-pounding has me turned off from this one.
If the LN continues with this trend it's more for the people who rave about "Waiting for Godot".