Wortenia Senki

[macmandex]

Could have been one of the greatest novels, mangas, and or anime of all time! But the author lost respect for his story, his readers, his craft. Unless the was some extenuating circumstances, like loss of mind, or death and the story changed hands. There’s no excuse for the direction this writing took. Read it please read it. The high you will receive as this story starts is a leadership study on “okay all ya’ll doing this over and over? Well IM DOING THIS! YESSS! And it continues…. Then you’ll start noticing a pattern difference with the writing process that doesn’t get better only worst. The read becomes so frustrating, I exaggerate not. The desire to find one and commit a crime becomes real. This was years ago who knows maybe the author rehauled the story with a massive apology. Well don’t take my word read read it’s great for as long as it is. Maybe it’s a different writer for the manga from over a decade ago.

 

[JoichiroNishi]

Is it just me or this is rushed as hell, the world is a sewer of so much corruption, and, I don't know how to explain it, but everything feels artificial? As if my it's pushing my suspension of disbelief not with bullshit gaming systems, but with actions themselves. For example Spoiler alert

Spoiler

Meltina after talking so much righteousness, and the good side, suggests betrayal in a particularly gruesome way, Ryoma's reaction to the slaves was also too exaggerated, that man is as cold as an ice cube and reacts like that, without even mentioning that would be his fate if he didn't escape, the empire trying to take over the world without even considering what happens if the other nations decide to unite against it after seeing the danger

I don't know, things like that really tip me off, I'm about to drop it.

This world is a cesspit of corruption, which is apparently why they keep summoning East Asian people to lead their wars and armies. Lupis is basically the only royal/noble that isn’t corrupted by the world which leads her to making incredibly stupid and contradictory decisions. Meltina potentially starting another civil war behind her back is just one of the most egregious examples of this. Lupis either compromises or defers to others because she’s afraid of hurting anyone. Ryoma even says giving him a wasteland and a title instead of killing him or allying with him (alienating the nobles) was the worst decision she made. I’m still interested but a lot of WN/LN readers say this is the best part before it takes an immediate nosedive lol, so I’ll wait a bit before I drop it.

 

[AlfaT3]

the story line and plot are great, it's really a bother that the trad had done such a shame of a work on some chapters

 

[Erebov]

10-second summary of this manga...

 

[Nikodemsky]

It's on hiatus?

 

[akashi_is_luv]

Since the manga is too far behind, I read the LN but could not stomach it. I needed to skim through that mess to grasp the main plot because the author threw info dump to explain even the simplest, irrelevant thing for a whopping 3 pages.

At this point, I only occasionally check the LN for the storyline and see what Sodou's fate is in the end. I wish that mf faced the worst death.

Spoiler

Sodou let Seria (Helena's daughter) become a slave and then later saved her to trick her into working for him as an organization member.

 

[Lanfear]

Honestly the manga is superior to the LN imo. We are up to 26 novels so far and nowhere near the end of the series.

Why so many? The author spends an insane amount of time describing what every character is thinking at any given moment.

 

[Dzrian]

No more translations?

 

[Raieth]

Oof, it’s pretty obvious that the author has no idea how politics or world building actually works.

I’m at the beginning of the civil war for the throne and that black haired girl should be taken behind the shed not allowed to join meetings. She’s going to be a problem later.

The princess they are rooting for is an actual moron. Was she never taught statecraft? She is far to passive to be a ruler.

Digging magic being considered useless? Digging! The single most useful thing in society? That’s a sign the author has never done any kind of research on city/war planning, and/or is missing the ability to extrapolate real world results from his fantasy ideas.

Judging by the other comments I suspect it’s both.

As for the not having sex thing, I wish more authors were willing to have characters say, “nope I’m Ace” as that’s a fully valid reason on top of the, slaves have no agency and all sex with a slave is r*pe.

 

[Muffinas]

This reminds me of SAO so much and Solo leveling. The amount of Aura farming in this manga is insane. The MC is a genius who just knows everything, and gets lucky to be in the right place at the right time.