Seireitsukai no Blade Dance

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Synonyms: Seirei Tsukai no Kenbu, Dance Blade of the Spirit Master, Blade Dance of Elementalers

Japanese: 精霊使いの剣舞〈ブレイドダンス〉

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Type: Light Novel

Volumes: 20

Chapters: 218

Status: Finished

Published: Dec 24, 2010 to Mar 25, 2019

Genres: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Supernatural, Ecchi

Themes: Harem, School

Serialization: None

Authors: Shimizu, Yuu (Story), Sakura, Hanpen (Art), Shimesaba, Kohada (Art), Nimura, Yuuji (Art)

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Score: 7.90¹ (scored by 2,165 users)

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Ranked: #981²

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May 2, 2013

NeoAnkara

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Preliminary (Unknown/218 chp)

If you are the only male in all girl school what would you expect? Harem ofcourse. This is a story about the only male spirit contractor Kazehaya Kamito in all girl school where he was forced to atend by his old acuintance Greyworth the principal of the school. Because of the upcoming festival Blade Dance he was unwillingly participate to competete in the festival and beat Ren Ashbell in exchange of information about Restia the spirit that he search. The story is your average boys meet girls at first but it was develope into something better but still cliche. What Atract me the most is ... the cast so lets give a little brief about them.

Kazehaya Kamito
The MC of this series and the only male spirit contractor. Most of people warry of him since in the past Demon King that is the only male spirit contractor create chaos. But because of his ever growing harem now he have a tittle himself that is Demon King of the Night. He is on a quest for searching his past contracted spirit Restia.

Claire Rogue
Our female heroine is red haired pettanko twin tail tsundere. Her affinity is fire and her spirit is a cat. She often revered as Hellcat Ojou-sama. Even thought she is smart she is always causing problem that make her enemy of Sylphid Knight the school police. Despite that she is a good leader.

Rinslet Laurenfrost
She is Claire rival and her childhood friend. Despite always bickering they are stay a good friend not that either of them would admit it. Her affinity is ice so that it natural that she and Claire is rival. She have maid but for some reason it was her that have household skill whereas the maid is useless.

Ellis Fahrengard
Captain of Sylphid Knight and overall strict person. She was not in good term with Claire because she always cause problem. Her affinity is wind. Her skill on cooking is good but still not on level of Rinslet. She say that she practice cooking for pleasing her future husband. Even thought she is strict she have soft spot on cute thing.

Fianna Ray Odesia
She is the seductive type person. Her first appearance is in volume 2. She meet Kamito few years before the story begin but he doesn't remember her. Since she is princess maiden in combat she is act as a support. Claire sometimes refer her as immodest princest due to the fact that she always seduce Kamito.

Est
Kamito sword spirit and my personal favorite. She is a high level spirit since she can appeare in human form. Sometimes reffered as naked kneesock spirit because she often sneak into Kamito bed wearing nothing but stocking since for some reason she thought that showing her feet is embarsing. She is very loyal to Kamito. Revered by author as Unmovable Queen due to the fact that she nearly always in top popularity poll.

Restia
Mysterious darkness spirit that Kamito searching. She was Kamito contracted spirit in the past.

This novel filled with cliche, fighting, tsundere and lot of tease. With the author motto "Increase love, double the fun, supperior battle" this proof to make the story interesting. If you interest try read it specialy if you like harem fantasy setting. And it will have anime adaptation in the near future so make sure to check it out too.

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Jan 5, 2016

Gint0k1

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Preliminary (Unknown/218 chp)

I'm not going to tell you what this Light Novel is about. I mean sure I could copy and paste the synopsis, change it to my style of writing and add in a little bit more detail but in my experience, being told what a story is about isn't really the kicker which makes me decide to invest my time. I look for people's reactions to the story and as such, I will endeavor to tell prospective readers, what I thought about this Light Novel.

First off the setting and world building: 9/10
Starts of quite generic, with your MC/hidden past/tsundere female/academy setting but it grows, through ...

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Apr 17, 2017

KiramekiSparkle

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Preliminary (12/218 chp)

Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance is your "retired badass returns to fight once more" story crossed with harem elements. As we all know, in a harem, there is a boy with lots of girls. The problem here is boys don't have these "elementalist" powers. Except for our main character.

The story follows our main protagonist after he was hauled out of retirement by the almighty headmistress of a girl's academy for elementalists. With the world "girls" being redundant because only girls can be elementalists. Our retired badass seems to have a history with the headmistress, and in his heyday, he crossdressed to avoid attracting attention as ...

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Aug 18, 2022

hexashadow13

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tl;dr: A not particularly exceptional but mostly well executed harem battle academy series.

This light novel series starts off as a pretty standard harem battle academy, where the protagonist Kamito due to being the only male that can wield the power of spirits ends up being the only boy attending a school for training Elementalists who use spirits in battle. It is clear from the outset that the goal is to assemble a team to take part in an international tournament known as the Blade Dance and obtain qualification to enter it, and thus plot wise the first phase of this series is mainly a means ... of introducing the main cast and for explaining the fundamentals around the various mechanics of the world.

The winners of the Blade Dance have the opportunity to have any wish granted, and thus this portion makes good use of that in order to explain the background and motivations of most of the main cast, which at this point is composed of Kamito, his human like spirit Est, and his fellow team members Claire, Fianna, Rinslet, and Ellis. Kamito’s goal in entering the Blade Dance is to find his missing former also human like spirit Restia, who isn’t fully a main character yet, but it does establish the bond between her and Kamito quite a bit which makes it clear she will be eventually. None of the cast especially stood out but overall they were likable enough.

The plot then dives straight into the tournament arc, where it continues fleshing out the world’s lore and adding some twists to what it had already established, though still leaving a lot mysterious. This arc also uses the international nature of the Blade Dance to do some world building regarding the various nations of the world and such. After that, the plot naturally flows into a phase that makes use of that world building by having the main cast get entangled in a political mess that’s centered around conflicts between factions within nations as well as how that ends up playing into power struggles between nations, wherein the twists relating to the lore also remain a constant in the background that slowly gain more emphasis.

During both of these phases, the series also goes through a lot of development in most of the main heroines. This development feels somewhat overtly dense at times, in that how it generally works is that there will be occasional short periods where a single heroine gets a lot of development with not much development outside of that. But it also introduces a lot of side characters that have solid character arcs of their own, mainly Rubia, Muir, Leonora, and Greyworth, so it’s not like there’s a lack of substance outside of when its heavily focusing on a main heroine and thus overall it feels mostly well-paced in terms of how it handles characters.

This follows into the final phase where the elements built up to throughout the series centered around the lore become crucial to the plot with all the mysteries quickly being resolved and the main cast squaring off against the true mastermind. This phase had the clear issue of being rushed. The mysteries essentially have four interconnected layers to them with each being centered around a different time period: 3 years ago, 1000 years ago, 7000 years ago, and the beginning of the universe, and the narrative essentially goes backwards in time to reveal them. As such, how it handles fleshing things out regarding the first three layers is handled reasonably well as it gives things room to breathe. The final layer though is almost entirely confined to the final three volumes, and it really doesn’t feel like its handled all that well, which makes the direct build up to the final battle and the climax itself somewhat disappointing.

Character arcs also feel pretty rushed, wherein for the main cast it does technically wrap things up for everyone, but in ways that mostly feel like they don’t have much substance. The same is true for the side characters with prominent character arcs as well. They reach conclusions, but it feels like the conclusions leave things hanging. Furthermore, there are side character that weren’t all that important, but it definitely felt they were being built up to have more important roles in the final phase, but that instead just drop out of the narrative completely or continue to have minor roles that feel really weak for all the buildup they got. Still, even with all that, the ending is pretty great even if it is essentially the standard ending for such stories, so I’d have to say I am satisfied with the conclusion overall.

In terms of action the overall mechanics are fleshed out well enough. There were issues in terms of ability growth though. Kamito’s growth is handled pretty well from beginning to end with battles that clearly show growth. It also feels for the first half or so like it’ll handle everyone else’s growth well too since it begins to do a decent job with Claire and Fianna. Unfortunately, the latter half then just throws around a bunch of power ups super quickly in a pretty random manner in the end without really dwelling on it.

In terms of romantic fluff and slice of life, what’s there is pretty solid from beginning to end with slow and steady progress that builds up well into the ending. It should be noted though that there was a decline in terms of quantity as the series went on and it became more focused on the overarching plot, though there was a side story volume released right in the middle of all that that was purely fluff.

In terms of art, this series I went through three artists. The first was great. The second was just okay. The third I think was also pretty good, though their illustrations were inconsistent at times with the illustrations of the first two which felt off. The fan translation in terms of the quality of its English prose is somewhat rough and has lots of clear mistakes, but it flows well enough so overall I consider it pretty good for a light novel fan translation.

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Oct 14, 2019

Shura1847

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Preliminary (182/218 chp)

This Light Novel is one of the few novels that I have enjoyed that involves a harem around the main character. This series has been a consistent hit for me while others may dislike it, the character development can be a bit slow or sometimes too fast even but I found that throughout the series all the questions I had were answered to some degree.

In terms of the overall presentation this series really delivers, after reading 18 volumes in english and attempting the last two in japanese I found this series to be story rich with an immersive world that the author builds up ...

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