COME HELL OR HIGH WATER Now that Kaito Ukei’s been given another shot at life, he has set out on his journey to exact revenge on the party members who brutally murdered him. He walks... FULL DESCRIPTION CategoriesGenresfiction Sub-Genresfiction / science fiction / action & adventure Full Details
NewsletterDon't miss updates about our authors, including book tour info and new book releases. Full Description COME HELL OR HIGH WATER Now that Kaito Ukei’s been given another shot at life, he has set out on his journey to exact revenge on the party members who brutally murdered him. He walks this path of vengeance with the beastfolk girl Minnalis, inching toward the capital to carry out his plan. Their first stop along the way? The City of Learning, Elmia. There, he brushes shoulders with the band of adventurers who purged the place most precious to him...as well as the damned Eumis—the traitorous spellcaster who turned her back on him in his time of need! Product Details
LIFE AFTER DEATH Kaito Ukei was destined for greatness in his new world, landing himself the role of a hero and defeating the evil sorceress alongside a band of noble adventurers. When he's double crossed, though, and brutally murdered by his former allies, something inside him snaps. Death brings Kaito neither peace nor salvation. Rather, it instills in him a singular desire—to squeeze the life out of his blasted betrayers in the cruellest manner possible...! The strange twist of fate that gives him a second chance in the world with all his memories intact provides opportunity to do just that, and so begins his quest to stalk and torture the members of his former party in the bloodiest, unholiest, most sadistic ways imaginable! Nidome no Yuusha wa Fukushuu no Michi wo Warai Ayumu Genre Categories Category Recommendations The Husky and His White Cat Shizun
(Novel) Recommendations Author(s) Kizuka Nero Artist(s) Yomoya Yamo Year 2018 Original Publisher Kadokawa Shoten Serialized In (magazine) Comic Walker (Kadokawa Shoten) Licensed (in English) Yes English Publisher Yen Press (2 Volumes - Ongoing) Activity Stats (vs. other series) Weekly Pos #488 Pos #1366 Pos #1920 Pos #2598 Pos #2690 List Stats On 1304 reading lists Note: You must be logged in to update information on this
page. You must login to comment for this series! Registeran account. A lot of revenge manga are afraid to lean into the dark side and make the Main Character too ruthless, while others go so hard that the entire thing turns into an over-the-top black comedy. This manga does neither: the MC and his companion are both completely ruthless and just the right amount of unhinged, but none of it feels like a joke, especially since the targets of their revenge are so clearly (yet believably) evil that you can't help but hate them. I'm not gonna call it Shakespeare or anything, but it's pretty good writing for what it is. Sadly, both the manga and light novel have been on hiatus coming up on 3 years now, and apparently the original web novel chapters have been deleted by the author. I'm not sure what exactly happened but I don't hold much hope that the series will continue. Still, the 11 chapters that did make it out were pretty good, good enough that I'm going to dive into the light novel just to see what happens. ... Last updated on July 16th, 2022, 5:30pm If you like the revenge isekai thing, this one will do just fine. Some nice edge, a disgusting set of villains to kill/torture for their wrong deeds, a sexy former slave bunny-girl revenge-accomplice for the MC; the works. Not amazingly crafted but a fine story to pass the time. But eventually all momentum halts when they decide it's time to randomly stitch the MC's flashbacks and current day chapters. The flashbacks weren't even necessary because you already know what happened (he got betrayed), but worst of all it becomes confusing. Would have given it a 7/10 if not for this example of poor structure. Finally an Isekai manga where the mc isn't a disgusting goody two shoes or dense. I STRONGLY recommend this series for those of you who EXTREMELY ENJOY antiheros. Wew. Where do I begin with this. I know isekai aren't well regarded as paragons of good storytelling (because of the large influx of bad ones flooding the market and making supposedly better ones look bad) and I've more or less stayed away from them because of their reputation. Nidome no Yuusha (NnY; in it's comic form) is a steaming pile of trash. Pardon me for the hyperbole but I certainly felt that way when I read the first chapter (to be fair, I read up to Chapter 4 before dropping it). At it's core it's a revenge story in an isekai garb. I'll discuss why as a revenge story and as a story, it fails. Note: Spoilers if you haven't read the first chapter NnY's biggest failure is that it assumes the existence of a formula for a certain type of story guarantees it's success as a token of that story. (Now I don't know if that's what the author was thinking but it certainly comes off like that.) To see what I mean by my statement let me state the most basic formula for a revenge story: (1) a protagonist who was wronged and (2) an antagonist who wronged him. Given (1) and (2), make (2) as morally reprehensible as possible so that any action the protagonist commits is seen as cathartic. Note that I did not say the protagonist has to be morally right per se but all that it has to accomplish is to give a sense of satisfaction (i.e. catharsis) to the audience by righting the wrong whether by means of murdering the wrongdoer, torturing them, etc. (Though for a great story this is a bit more nuanced but this will suffice for our sake.) Given the above "recipe," NnY mostly fits it. It meets (1) and (2) and makes (2) a questionable bitch (although there does seem to be a logic that gives the antagonists arguments for the treatment of the protagonist some weight; more of this at the end of the review*) and yet it still fails terribly. So why does it fail? NnY's Failure Yes, the protagonist died but so what? Unless we empathize, root for, feel for, the character it is nothing but a plot point akin to a stranger dying thousands of miles away. The princess' pain on the other hand is real. We see it visibly in her face, in her words and while she certainly doesn't see the protagonist as a human, one thinks why not kill her instead of debasing yourself to their level? Our protagonist answers that his trust was shattered and his revenge must be served ice cold. Yet again who cares?. Who is this guy who we hardly know of? Why should I the reader root for him? No doubt betrayal is a bitch but how is it a bitch? Let me contrast NnY with another revenge story manga to prove my point: Berserk. Note: Spoilers for Berserk ahead Berserk has perhaps one of my favorite betrayals in manga that it builds up to meticulously over the course of its first half and when that betrayal hits. It hits hard. Unlike NnY, Berserk presents his protagonist Guts on a quest for revenge and gives us plenty of reasons why we should cheer him on (as well as reasons why we shouldn't but comparing the moral nuances between Berserk and NnY is unfair) like (i) the murder of his friends, (ii) the rape and subsequent PTSD of his lover, and (iii) the mutilation of Guts' body and the subsequent damnation of eternal struggle between him and demons. It's not like Guts' friends were a one drop thing. They were built up over the entirety of the first half (aside from the early chapters showcasing Guts as a loner) as a rag-tag team of drifters who have grown to love and trust one another. So when one of their own ends up massacring them for a second chance at life, you feel pained because you know these characters. You see none of that in NnY because it opted to jump for the revenge before the build-up. While it is possible that the story will give details regarding the protagonist's betrayal later on, the odious pacing and overzealous protagonist presented in the first chapter is striking and indicative enough of bad writing for me to give this a pass which, in the manga business, means death. So there it is. NnY is not garbage for the morally ambiguous actions of the character (as I see some readers comment) but because it gives us an early revenge without any catharsis. EDIT: I see in other reviews on other sites, the author in the novel reveals more in flashbacks but I still hold fast to my original criticism. *The princess might be somewhat in the right here depending if you agree with p-zombiearguments. It might be that the protagonist only looks like a human but has no conscious features that would make him a human (and given how he acted it might be true lol, I kid). Considering that the protagonist is not from the princess' world, it is possible that the protagonist is from a world where only p-zombies exist. So the protagonist status as a threat is possible as long as it is possible he is not a human. So the princess' actions, while lacking rigor, in practicality, were valid given that she wished to save her world/kingdom. ... Last updated on February 27th, 2019, 11:22pm This
manga might be a major turn off for most readers, but I really enjoy how twisted the MCs are. Isekais and mangas in general needs more MCs like this. You must login to comment for this series! Registeran account. |