Tsue to Tsurugi no Wistoria
Wistoria: Wand and Sword

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8.1/10


I’ll be honest, I did not like this manga within the first few chapters as everything was predictable and cliché. However, each character fulfills their role splendidly well: either making the readers hate them or grow a strong attachment.

Though, I must point out that most of them are semi-one dimensional as they have a fixated outlook for the protagonist, which is frustrating. Where I truly find excitement in this is the combination of the jam packed fight scenes with good art and the needed bloodshed/failure. Not only this, but it particularly does a well job at garnering our empathy and evoking emotions (I cried ... a little).

I’m interested to see where this manga goes next, as it has a strong foundation that has been established in the mid-chapters. I hate saying this but as the manga progresses the better it is getting.

PS: This is similar to Black Clover and Mashle, so if you enjoyed those then you’d love this. I dropped Mashle around chapter 70, but I don’t think this will share the same fate.


Reading Rankings (Portnoy inspired + A Huang-Teizan Original)
10 - God’s penmanship
9 - Must-read. Drop everything else.
8 - Instant bookmark
7 - Entertaining
6 - Good to pass time
5 - Why are you reading this?
4 - Bad.
3 - Typical garbage.
2 - My head hurts.
1 - Retirement is a thought.
0 - “Did they even give you a story?!”

It's clear from the first chapter that this is a story about a character who hides his true power. But even though I normally skip those, the worldbuilding was interesting enough that I wanted to know more. The art style is also gorgeous, and action panels are this manga's strong suit. At first, the story was so predictable that I wanted to drop it, but then the stakes became high in chapter 13, and I was pulled in again. Alas, I've reached chapter 26 and it pretty much drained all my hope.

As I said, I quickly became invested in the world, its power system and ... history. But the more important aspects—the characters and plot—are quite a mess. And it all comes down to our protagonist, Will Serfort. We're supposed to feel bad for him, but we also know that he's much stronger than everyone else. It's sad because he could have been a great character if he relied on his experience and knowledge instead. We get to see that he can be a good leader who motivates others and comes up with strategies. I can also respect his goal of being with the girl he loves, but given how powerful he is, it makes no sense that he hasn't already ascended the tower.

I find it strange that Elfaria is labeled as a main character because she rarely appears in the manga, and we don't know much about her. Will's only two friends are both in love with him, and his mentor wants him to hide his power too, for some reason. None of the secondary characters is very complex, but at least they can't do everything on their own. The story reached its peak in chapters 13-18, which I genuinely enjoyed. But key moments from this arc were completely forgotten in the next, and it all went downhill from there.

Despite the title "Wand and Sword", the story doesn't try to prove that knights and mages need each other. Instead, the protagonist possesses special abilities that surpass magic. This manga certainly has some strong points, but the fact that the main character is so overpowered makes it dull for me.

Okay you will love this if you like: good art, cool magic and eneimes, progression mangas
And you probably wont like it if you dont like: slowly releasing chapeters (every 1-2 weeks), fantasy, super plot heavy mangas

Here are the postivies:
+great art
+great characters
+good character development in side characters
+uneqie story
+great world setting
+ long chapters
... + fantasy
+ immaculate design
+ great systems ( in progression )
+ ( SPOLIER ) lets semi important chacters die

Here are a few negatives:
- slowly realsing chapters
- anojoying villans and side characters
- the underlying plot is a little vauge or just not revelad i'd like to know a bit more
- a little predictable

Anyway i recommend reading at least the 1st 20-41 chapters to get a hang of the manga and see how you like it

this manga is a cliché in which the MC is constantly questioned and always proves the opposite, and this starts to get tiresome, repetitive and obvious as you read on. It starts to get annoying the way the MC is treated without recognizing his abilities. Superficial things that could be solved easily, but the author decides to stop the MC from progressing with childish things just to retain the audience's attention. The synopsis of this manga is to bring the MC and the elf together. The author is afraid that the work will stagnate when this happens, and perhaps this is the reason for the ... difficulties imposed on the protagonist.

Fast Paced and Beautiful Battle Shonen; the art is fantastic and is able to capture and convey abstract feelings well such as insane speed or vast/overpowering magical spells to give scale and scope to the world. The power scaling and magic system make sense appear to have good scale and progression.

This is the non-comedic version of MASHLE that's set in a world that is the Magical equivalent to the world from Divergent (Semi-dystopian with a looming world outside of the initial area people live as a larger threat). The story is able to hit emotional beats well (especially triumph and defeat). The ... story has not gotten to it yet but the lore and world outside of the initial magical town/academy are building to be very interesting and a larger part of the story than the first academy arc.

The quality of the characters varies from very good to alright and then sadly not used enough when they have great depth to them (AKA Professor Edward). Currently in the story the "bad guys" have close to no characterization and the outside world is largely a mystery; both of which are very large points of intrigue and have been alluded to a lot by the world and characters.

I personally came to the Manga after watching the anime and do think that the anime edges out the manga from the reading/viewing experience for pure fun/entertainment; I found the animation and pacing to be phenomenal. To give the Manga credit though the translations/text do a good job of explaining the intricacies of the world especially around the wands vs swords aspect.

Very much looking forward to more of the story and any subsequent seasons that get released; season 2 is going to be gorgeous IMO

Wistoria is one of those stories where you like it or you don’t like it. Like many others have said, it’s pretty cliche but I personally give everything I read the benefit of the doubt of stories that are still early in their story for a judgement. Black Clover had the same issues with many people but if you see Black Clover then and what it’s now, you’ll see how much better it is now. I believe Wistoria will have the same effect. Though the plot may be slow, the build up of the story lately makes me confident of the story with hints of ... more world building in the future. The art is good though, which is one of the reasons why I kept reading it.

If you like manga like Mairimashita Iruma kun and Boku no Hero Academia, then you WILL love this one. I love it.

Amazing art
Cool plot twists
Perfeect characters and their developments

Story is not so unique (but what is these days), but the world building is amazing. You might think it will be predicatble at the begining, but it will lead you to something else that you wouldn´t guess.
Charcters are perfectly drawed, MC looks like a weakling, but he´s one of the strongest characters in this universe. Their developmenst are well rounded and so their flaws, sthrengts, their inteligence and I also think, they react normally to the ... situations they fall into. They are still at school and of course sometimes need to depend on their teachers. Otherwise it would be boring.

Genre is typical shonen, normally I dont read shonen manga, but this one caught me right from the begining and it´s still one of my favourites to read.

The story started off promising enough to warrant trying out. But by chapter 33 it's gotten to a point of being inexcusable.

-Shallow character development.
-Terrible pacing.
-Ridiculous powerups that are made trivial within the next two chapters.

But the worst is the story itself. I know this is written by the same person who wrote Danmachi, but dear god. Write a different story plot other than Danmachi and Sword Oratoria. Every chapter I can see what was reused from those stories. The dungeon at the center of the city. The tower that pierces the clouds above the dungeon. The main character who is chasing after a woman as ... their source of motivation. The main character that is constantly looked down upon for being weak or worthless. And the constant beating the character down in the same way over and over again, claiming that it builds character. No, it doesn't. It only builds character when it's in different ways. If they're literally going through the same exact thing over and over again then there is no character progression. Just padding until the author figures out where they want to take the story next. Which leads to the question. Where is this story going? I don't even think the author knows since they're heavily reusing and retelling Danmachi and Sword Oratoria.

Will = Bell.
Elfaria = Aiz.
Shion = Bete.
Finn = Finn.

I mean come on. Is this a different story or isn't it? If an author can't even compartmentalize different plots in their head when writing then they shouldn't write multiple series at the same time.

To sum it all up. Each chapter only serves to infuriate me more and more. Because what I'm reading is a rip-off of a vastly superior story that was written by this very same author. They just found a way to sell it twice.

This might be the most unlikable MC I've ever seen. MC pretends to be weak and feeble while secretly being the most powerful warrior in the school. MC lets himself be bullied for apparently no reason at all. Why would the MC even need to attend school when he's so powerful? All the students and teachers hate his guts because he's too nice? This type of forced drama is completely ridiculous and ruins the character. This could have been an entertaining underdog story where he rises up after getting bullied, but nope, he is already a god from the first chapter without explanation.