Bluesteel Blasphemer Volume 1 eBook Ichirou Sakaki, Tera Akai, James Rushton, Kevin Steinbach
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Yukinari Amano loves guns. After reincarnating into another world, the young man goes on a journey with Dasa, the younger sister of the girl who gave him a second life. However, while on the road, the pair are attacked by a local deity—an "erdgod." No normal person could possibly defeat one—so when Yukinari uses his knowledge of guns and newfound abilities to do the impossible, he becomes worshipped as the area's new god himself!
Get ready for an alternate-reality, gun-and-sword-filled, action-packed adventure!
Bluesteel Blasphemer Volume 1 eBook Ichirou Sakaki, Tera Akai, James Rushton, Kevin Steinbach
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Bluesteel Blasphemer Volume 1 eBook Ichirou Sakaki, Tera Akai, James Rushton, Kevin Steinbach Reviews
The premise is much more interesting than whats actually written in the book. The main character is unlikeable, partially because he's bland but mostly because the author tries too hard to make him seem cool. Other characters fall under very predictable archetypes and action sequences are always the best described. Also some specific character descriptions do not match their illustrations, with a lean towards making them more fan-serviceable which can be immersion breaking. The story in this book oddly paced, and it feels as though more should have been included better lay plot threads and clues towards the conclusive fight to male the end seem less like a deus ex machina finish. Overall the story is uninteresting and mostly forgettable. Maybe check this out once the price drops below $3.00, but otherwise don't waste your time on it
Bluesteel Blasphemer Volume 1 introduces us to the main characters and supporting cast and to the basics of the world and story. Although short, it was fairly interesting and the fights were entertaining. I would describe it as Grimoire of Zero (anime) meets How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom (another light novel series being translated into English/released by J-Novel Club) with some differences. There are better series out there, but give this series a try if you are bored and looking for something new to read.
I'm going to post some lines from the author because it describes it so well but this is the type of story I can't get enough of.
This book is what you might call an “Other-world Chea-rem,†as in “an average guy gets transported to some other world with a cheat that makes him the strongest character around while all the girls who show up instantly fall in love with him and he winds up with a harem.â€
If you are looking for this book to put out the 5th volume the author pretty much states things are on hold until they see how well this does market wise. So you may be waiting a while or possibly forever for this to ever move past 4 volumes. As for the content the books are alright. I feel there is a bit of jumping around and waaaaaay to much repetition in the way of retelling the story from volume to volume. It makes me think they purposely did it to stretch out 4 volumes of material. Also the harem is extremely slow to do much of anything romantically. So if your looking for lots of small romantic moments between the girls and guy your wasting your time reading this. Now if your still reading this the plot of this book is not to bad
This story has a lot of potential, and follows tried-and-true formula boy dragged into new world, given superpowers.
The downside is that he apparently hates all organized religion (or disorganized), and while the world makes a compelling point, there is not counter argument. A convincing story allows for good guys to exist on the enemy position, and turns the tale from a monologue to a dialogue. The sequence between events is short, granting the feeling that the author took scenes from a comic book, wrote a required number of words per panel, and then turned the page.
The entire 'save the girl from the monster' concept is well done, but it isn't used to strengthen the plot very much. Anything connected to religion is turned evil, from orphanages (easy sacrifice collection) to science (better ways to get 'miracles' with which to dupe the public), and such. Frankly, it was depressing. Not what I was looking for.
On the plus side, the protagonist does exhibit a believable outlook. He takes care of the initial individual in his 'harem' with a well-described affection; which I appreciate. Taking time to make the actions smooth without overly drawing out the moment takes a lot of attention.
Summary there are worse tales out there, but there are better.
Bluesteel Blasphemer follows Yukinari, a Japanese teenager who died in a house fire and woke up to find himself in another world in a new body and in the company of two sisters, and Dasa, the younger of the two sisters, as they run from the capital. However, while taking shelter from the weather, the two interfere with the ritual sacrifice to the local erdgod and are forced to kill it. With the local area now vulnerable to demigods, xenobeasts, and other humans, Yuki is forced to act as protector.
The book is told in third-person, mostly following the characters of Yukinari, Dasa, Berta, and Fiona, the four main characters of the novel. There are times where the narration follows nameless characters or groups, but these are few and short, mostly used for set-up.
Bluesteel Blasphemer... doesn't take kindly of religion and faith. The True Church of Harris is essentially Christianity during the Crusades. Yuki hates religion ever since his mother step out on their family after finding religion and the actions of the Harris Church in his backstory and in the third act doesn't exactly help relieve him of such feelings. Acting Mayor Fiona, being educated in the capital, is the most reasonable person in the town of Friedland while the clergy are willing to do things like take Dasa hostage to get Yuki to cooperate, against Fiona's objections. Berta, being raised in a religious orphanage and is a "shrine maiden", doesn't think for herself. All her actions come from the thought of fulfilling her duty as "shrine maiden".
Besides the Christian-like Church of Harris, there is the erdgods. Outside the territory of the Harris Church, beings known erdgods, demigods, and xenobeasts terrorize the human populace. The mythology of such beings is as follows when an animal/group of animals live long enough, they can develop near-human intelligence and start changing their appearance into a criss-cross of human-likeness and animal. These are known as demigods. When a demigod develops a spiritual link to an area, they become an erdgod, allowing them to use their influence to either bring good fortune or disaster to their domain. Humans living in such areas tend to make contracts with their erdgods for protection and good harvest. In exchange, the humans offer sacrifices to keep the erdgod and its familiars happy. Xenobeasts are beings that failed to fully become demigods, hunting humans, demigods, and erdgods to kill and eat their brains in an attempt to gain the intelligence they need to become demigods. I quite like this and wished the author had done more with it in this volume. Here's hoping more is done with erdgods/demigods/xenobeasts in future volumes.
As mentioned before, the main characters are as follow Yukinari, Dasa, Berta, and Fiona.
While the previous mention of Yuki not liking religion based on his mother's desertion of the family might give the impression he would turn out to be a religion hating atheist, but that's not what happens. Yuki is a very let live person when dealing with religious people. It is only when people try to force religion on others, hurt others in the name of religion, or are only doing something because their religion demands them to that can get him to take action, and even then, he doesn't go bigot or treat people worse because of it. This even ties into his abilities. Yes, Yuki is another isekai OP protagonist. However, he doesn't flaunt it and only use it when the situation calls for him to. In fact, he only uses it twice in the volume. For the majority of the volume, Yuki wants to avoid conflict when possible and uses his sword-rifle when can't.
Dasa is a shy girl who was born with cataracts and speaks little. It is super-obvious that she has a crush on Yuki, though he is too dense to notice. She is also not above calling Yuki a womanizer, even when it is the girls who are hitting on him and he is trying to turn down their advances. She serves as sniper to Yuki's rifleman.
As mentioned above, Berta was raised in a religious orphanage and was the "shrine maiden" to be offered to the erdgod before Yuki and Dasa's inference, thus, most of her actions come from trying to fulfill her duty as "shrine maiden" by trying to be some use to Yuki, either sexually or in some other capacity. Yuki, for his part, tries to get her to think for herself.
Fiona is the daughter of the mayor of Friedland and is acting as mayor while her father is bedridden. As stated above, Fiona was educated in the capital, thus, is well-aware that the erdgod system isn't the best for the town, but also knows that she just can't stop the practice without finding and installing a better, safer system. Meeting Yuki finally allows her that chance, but she also isn't willing to go to extremes to do so.
Overall, I found this volume to be okay. Other than the prologue, the novel felt like the start of a second arc than the beginning of a series by having Yuki and Dasa on the run and not info dumping about Yuki's new body once we're introduced to him post-prologue, only hinting at such answers until halfway through the third act. The fights are okay but could had been better. Also wished more was done with the erdgods/demigods/xenobeasts before moving on to the Church of Harris by in the third act. Hopefully the next books can fix this and give a more balanced look at religion and faith, instead of the more extremist/chaotic stance that's on view here.
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