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Kamachi's work - Mitou shoukan

I love seeing MC's suffer, cause it is the pain and struggle that make the final victory all the sweeter, and if they fail along the way it still makes a great tragedy to watch. Sadly most authors in the LN industry don't seem to understand that, good thing we have Kamachi to enjoy.

Story - 8
The setting is an alternate future, in which mankind have developed a way to summon gods and mystical beings as weapons using the blood sign ritual (which works kind of like a game of pool), the ritual have many restrictions that should never be broken or ... else disastrous result would strike.

Kyousuke, our MC is one of the strongest summoners in the world with the title . He was the result of trying to create a group of ultimate summoners. But when he reached the age of 10, he and his other 14 "siblings" who had all been sealed in the experiment chamber since they were little, created the World-Sewing Summon Ritual, and managed to summon The White Queen, greatest of all summons, with no restrictions unlike the blood sign ritual. The result would be catastrophic that drove all 15 of them insane in different ways, killed half of them and cause problems to occur all over the world.

Now Kyousuke must deal with the problems that throw at him and hope that one day he can kill The White Queen and fix everything (which everyone including the bottom of his own heart knows is impossible).

Character - 8

Combine Accel and Touma, remove the optimism from the mixture, crank up the "MUST SAVE PEOPLE" setting and pour a whole bunch of misery into the mixture. The result is Kyousuke, a depressed save-holic, who can't turn down people asking him to save them and once done he cuts his ties with them. His represents the Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland, leading the girls who are lost in the mystical world of summoners back to their regular life. The fact summoners cannot be remembered means it is a thankless job since the people he help would forget about him after he cuts his tie with them.

White Queen is the ultimate summon that is unbeatable, when Kyousuke and the others summoned her, they each got an aspect of her imprinted on them, the part Kyousuke got was "love". The White Queen is yandere for him, and not in the cute or turn you on type of way, she is yandere in the "Force you to cut off your own hand, and scribble love letters in your blood while you bleed out and driven crazy". Kyousuke, like a normal person, had spent every living second of his life regretting summoning her when he was young and dreams of one day killing her and atoning for all the chaos he caused because of his naivety. But his struggle just makes her "LOVE" him all the more. An unbeatable sadistic monster, and the source of all misery in Kyousuke's life.

Enjoyment - 9
I love it, watching Kyousuke hack his own hand off, watch him screaming like a mad man at the sight of White Queen, watching his sister point out that he isn't as sane as he think he is, and watching him hacking his own hand off while screaming, is simply so enjoyable. Regardless of the outcome, the path leading to it sure is a blast, and Kyousuke suffering is just so fun to watch, at first you may think he is like Tatsuya-stu or Kirito-stu, but really he is more close to an abused bunny, whose sadistic owner wouldn't let him go free.

Overall - Yandere/10 (8/10)
The king of shounen LN delivers again, all praise The Divine Writing Machine who write better than 90% of LN human author.

From what I heard, Kamachii Kazuma, great toaru author, used his other works he published not just as a hobby, but a way to experiment new ideas for Index series, his main work, in a way that didn't wear out the essence of a product in test.
For Kamachii Kazuma, a fast writer on his manuscripts, this is actually a very viable strategy, and by the looks of it, it's actually true over here.
Nevertheless, a fool is who thinks that his references to the Index disturb Mitou Shoukan's originality

An always nice content in Kamachii-sensei's writing is the way it acts similar to a poetic encyclopedia of ... curious "facts", because, while allowing himself to talk about the most varied types of conspiracies, when least expected, one finds face to face with a philosophical factor completely adjacent to the fact, but camouflaged under various nuances that instigate the reader to discover more! (Of course, like Wikipedia, some information is wrong.)
That said, I marveled at how the author managed his introduction, and later his world-building, with a curious connection between summons, blood pacts, and world leaders

Oh, and about the comic timing here, although the ecchi is annoying for some "skinny pink ass" jokes (if that's what you can say about Kamachii lolizuma), I believe that the unusual situations arising from curious descriptions can make the viewer feel much more comfortable and forget a bit about the other jokes in the banned "loficon" category, as well as being less criminal than an "undercover ecchi" like an FBI cold case (oddly, Kamachii is always connected to this, in a way or otherwise).
For example, I found myself laughing until the asthma attacks and giggling were replaced by weird beatbox sounds, simply because of a damn white tiger looking like a parody of "π's adventures" or hayate no gotoku in action!


Well, leaving aside the curiosities, let's introduce what this story would be, which for convenience, it is worth quoting two texts prior to this one.
One referring to the white queen taken from the work itself, and another referring to Shiroyama Kyousuke (also known as "Alice with rabbits"), taken from the definition of the tale by Lewis Carroll

"She saw love in everyone equally (spirit). She didn't love anyone in particular, she was just in love with the very act of falling in love (physical), and because of that, she could destroy the world"

"It is the White Rabbit that Alice endlessly pursues and searches for in Wonderland, symbol of her quest for knowledge. Just when things seem hopeless enough, the rabbit appears again and Alice moves on.
Following the white rabbit means following an unlikely lead and finding yourself in the middle of an extraordinary situation. This situation often challenges your beliefs and changes your life. The White Rabbit is so curious, so strange, that Alice can't help but follow him."

That said, it is a story about the passion and love of man and God.
Initially, it may seem like a very delicate and abrupt subject to model, but perhaps, precisely because of that, its result is so beautiful.....
Thus, the work is meticulously built through the battle system, which is expanding with constant new rules, taboos and loopholes, resulting in its philosophy and power (the battles are quite original, and seem to be a mixture of pocket monsters, yu- gi-oh!, rock, paper, scissors and pool).
The "facts" and the logical illusions are organized in plans to fight against the "common sense" made by the construction of the world, creating good strategies to oppose the enemies and even the reader's imagination, which although it has enough evidence, makes it It's a great logical and enigmatic game to learn how enemies are going to break the rules of the world itself, and how allies are going to fix them and learn about the "fear" of breaches (obviously there's a little game of luck or convenience here too) .
It's like a poker game... The rabbit is the joker that can pair with any alice and assume its value and suit. On the other hand, the queen is the strongest consecutive number position where everything seems rigged for her to win, so it looks like a hopeless battle. However, remember, depending on the scenario and the rules themselves, this type of combination can become only the second strongest in the world. There are then gaps left to fight it, not ending in a total defeat or a pathetic tie where nothing is won!

-Don't reject fear... Accept it and smile at the fact that such a method exists. (Shiroyama Kyosuke)

In the face of this, each enlargement of the world's absurdity is also the beauty of his own philosophy, about how the most desperate feelings are connected with the divine world, not only to cry out, but to approach God and bring love and fear, side by side like a powerful weapon.
The way the gods are rearranged here as steps towards human selfishness, maintains a very interesting essence, just as illusions can become real (sword of truth unsullied), something similar can be applied here, how to approach this level and become the messiah of his own life, but still, allowing himself to be understanding with others, even with blood pacts (this may be the first contradiction that destroyed Kyousuke)

In short, the power system represents world stability, and the spare parts are ethics and morality.
The divine class it is the manifestations of human creativity that paint the gods, while the unexplored class is human confidence about what cannot be understood.
It's the story of a boy who doesn't understand God's love, about how one being can love everyone equally and still focus his passion on a single being around many.
The passion of the human being may not understand the love of a God, to the point that just one syllable of truth completely destroys our heart's belief, that even in a contradictory way, it could also raise or lower the status of the curses of a god or the devil that we think we understand

-Supposedly, romance in this world brings the most happiness in the time before the confession (White Queen)

In short, each volume is unique and connected to the source, so everything understands! (Perhaps not volume 10, as it breaks all the proposed rules towards a new distorted path)
The answers are valid initially, but expand in a way that you'll be amazed and understand everything in the end (or at least much of the awesome content).
So allow me to elaborate further by demonstrating some of the questions and answers, which are frequently exchanged as the flow of information progresses.....



The "phantom pain" manifested by summoners to spirits, who are empowered by fear, suffering from it or causing it.
Yes, the spirits who can be remembered in the idealism of the loves of the earth, and those who cannot be among these people's dream paradise, the summoners (when the summoners reach a certain level/ranking, normal people forget about them).
Thus, the vessels would be similar to a machine that measures and recognizes these two sides.
Another interesting factor about Vessels would be the "vengeful spirits" they come into contact with when they are allocated to a new world.
As said, they would be a machine that allows itself to be influenced by the criticism of others, however, these negative spirits can be avoided with a "symbol that solidifies your heart", whether it is something precious to you, or just a pair of handcuffs that stops your instinct influenced, like pavlov's dog

-It's sad when people die. However, every society is built on the narrative that people die (Benikomichi Fūki)

The realization of the "right thing to do" in a world marked by the scars of the supernatural could only be done by a goodness that breaks the law and opposes evil. Therefore, the ghost factor can also be considered the invisible suffering that only the soul of the one who suffers the damage can silently scream so that no one hears it, at least, in the real world... The sword of immaculate truth, such an illusion done well, it could bring hope and crush it at the same time, right?
That's why Kyousuke reinforces his fear, so that he doesn't become a machine that only destroys the lives that would forget about him, just like other summoners surrounded by spiritless dead would do. The power of using your fear to control your anger at injustices radiated by subjective human perceptions

-Everyone changes the world. It's just that most people don't realize they're doing it. (Shiroyama Kyousuke)

So it's okay for a rumor of revenge to become a tale of hope. Just purify the demon before it disappears from this world. After all, if God's goodness could not be written to you just once, or only that you interpreted it as a passing infatuation and therefore rejected it (like a ghost's glimpse), fanatical about your own family (don't cry , baby Kyosuke), then make this miracle happen yourself!


-True strength is actually control over all other forces, thus the human heart. After all, strength and power do not exist in a vacuum, and just as man gets strength, so power gets man (White Queen)

Manipulation, an absolute tool of the conspiracy, rejects the human heart and the force that is reproduced there, thus generating only results that the tools provide, where the moral process is insignificant due to its results.

-Like hungry ants, the immobilized are eaten without understanding well what is happening or what they lack, their nutrients being transported to a humble anthill that needs everything in order, be it darkness, sacrifices, hopes or honors. That's what they did to my dear friend.... The artificial creation of the human soul from spiritual damage (Murasame Kuina)

The power system shapes your soul so that it incurs a kind of external debt that you will have to pay off in the future. Even at times when we look back and cannot even see what our actions were that shaped us as a family, or how the government interfered to create false bonds and modifications in our being.
On the other hand, there was still hope........ The mistakes and successes of the past mold us into what we are, souls in movement that must move forward. Hatred should not destroy it, resentment should not tingle it to an itch and destroy itself with an infectious disease! We must overcome all this with time (while it still exists), treating each other with due kindness, and sometimes, using the same subjective evils of society that took something away from us, as a relief for the soul, because if there are ants that they want their meat, there are also people who have suffered from it and have created repellents and right paths to deviate from it, so that in the end, somehow these wounds that have healed, can finally remind us of something lost

-Who decided that the will of the world mattered more than individual circumstances? Who had decided that a small heart should be crushed at the sight of that gigantic metal ball on top of a hill? It had nothing to do with logic, efficiency, calculations or profit! What was wrong with fighting simply to satisfy someone's heart!?
(Shiroyama Kyousuke)

The meaning of Alice with rabbit then is about an apathetic man who continues to be forgotten by the love of the world, but even so, manages to sympathize with the lost like him and prevent them from throwing themselves deeper and deeper into the abyss, after all, he understood very well such depth.
Finding true love in a world of artificial bonds.

"He was the white rabbit that guided a girl to the exit when she entered another world... The man who only thought that being selfish was only okay when it saved someone."


Ah, but please don't think it's an irresponsible story about blaming other people and organizations for your own actions....
It's as if just like the flow of information, the white queen's smile and kyousuke's dizziness were reversed, to portray another aspect

-The white goddess is more than a symbol of honor or belief, she is violence, perdition, despair and at the same time, the symbol of salvation. The gathering of all the contrarieties of the world into a pure and malicious will. Any of your suggestions are welcome, but at the same time destructive (Kyousuke Shiroyama)

Your passions and beliefs about your being are the same embraced by the ignorant human around the realization of omniscience.
The same kindnesses that relieve our sins are the same ones cherished by the sin itself that causes evil, because selfishness was most often found in simple acts, such as helping someone.
It's not running away from responsibility for your actions, but understanding who and to what extent you are being controlled by a greater being.
I mean, without even knowing how to define yourself between good and evil, how can you believe in a being far beyond your understanding?

"Were the sweetest words indistinguishable between a saint and a devil"

It is a tale of human trust over the incomprehensible and therefore this is a story about the denial of faith to find in humans themselves the love needed by a world that constantly forgets you. It's not some kind of pathetic or irresponsible message for lonely people to hold others accountable for their actions. It is a tale of overcoming and understanding the problems that surround them and how to find happiness in your mind-boggling passion in them or love so that you may rest in peace (glorification of the white queen, family concepts, etc.)

-The answer is always right in front of your eyes. If you can't see it, the problem is in your determination (White Queen)

-Find victory even where there is no [invisible hope], to make it impossible to lose in yourself, because if winning victory itself becomes useless with just 1 defeat, completely change your point of view on what victory is and find yourself in this crazy process of hope being submerged in despair. To not lose my values, to be understanding with change, to understand the good and the bad... So we raise our fists (Max Layard and Ellie Slide)

In answer to the crazy questions, we have that an individual being definitely cannot oppose such an organization and will only be crushed by the masses of frauds around him, "hidden in honor, like charitable organizations". Still, if you still want to do this, find a way to turn it into a victory, don't deny reality, trust your will and alternate it, even if it doesn't work out in the end, the men who recognize their own worth and still , rise to unite with the other hopes around them, can definitively oppose even the will of the world.
After all... Controlling the unexplored has always been humanity's greatest achievement


-Remember the past. But in doing so, time actually continues towards the future (White Queen)

If your present has been destroyed and there is no place to rest from despair, it's time to look to the past. So that the deeds and lessons learned, even if broken, make sense there. It was time to let go of illusions so that in all these impacts between them, all the kindnesses of the past, they can create a new truth to face the present.
When Kyousuke was at his most desperate, he remembered the time when he was a boy, in the basement surrounded by a tarot theater with reversed roles. Submerged in that mud, he remembered the unseen hope, he remembered the state of his soul when he first received the passion of the world, and finally he reached his past, and his past self did the same. Thus, the sands came together in the indissoluble, even surrounded by that mud that was said to be the pure sea full of dreams

It was there that he met the queen for the first time, and discovered that from the pure white, there was a disaster surrounded by many deceptions.
Shigara Masami, his tutor, teaches him about the concept of family, which results in a great formation of his personality. However, part of his corrupted personality is also found in the part that white devoured him, Biondetta in this case, which made even his own family doubt, as they began to hate, without the gentle touch that was loving.
Reason? The concept of the family, without realizing it, needed white, but the queen pushed them away, because the family itself began to use white for evil, and white became evil in everyone's eyes, even for the person she directed her love

"A happy memory from an unknown point in the timeline" (One of the scariest and most tempting titles I've ever seen)

- The sign of blood and invocations would be more a form of proof and test than the thesis. Materials are not only a threat to a pure family, they will also crush established theories even when they are brought together in a system of religious morals. Can a little moral outweigh a big one? No, even if it could, it would not bring us together once it spread across the world. What do they plan to accomplish by setting up this circus to amuse the Queen? (Shigara Masami)

-For better or worse, creating something new may have required a genius mind. But setting history in motion only required a fool, as long as they had a throne and a crown. And, of course, no concerns were given to the quality of the result. (Shigara Masami)

The white queen would be the peak of the divine, the deity worshiped by billions of people, while the miniature garden would be the place where people worship, where man uses the manipulation of genesis to obtain power from worship.
Controlling the unexplored means controlling your faithful.
"As long as the divine resided in the carcass, even the human being was a divine relic."
As long as there was an illusion with an apparent 100% accuracy, it could become a truth.

From the same personas and theatrical roles, the manuscript is given to us. Although it is possible to plot the route from start to finish, the feelings that fly from the script are like a storm that destroys your emotional when everything comes crashing down.
Seeing how the manifestations of the queen's fragments spread through the man's flesh was a painful task, where the essence of the soul and purity that so much planned to preserve, is destroyed.
At that moment, we must remember the everyday, how to bring these people to happy moments... How to organize the theater plays again for a happy ending, although time always continues to advance until the curtains close on the artificial.
We should resort to illusions, until we pull back to reality, for if there is a way to recover all the fragments with 100% accuracy, we must greet them in the kindest way in the world, just as we should have done from the beginning.

A scene that highlights this desperation well was Kyosuke and Biondetta escaping from the theater.
Looking out into the dark night, they felt liberated.
I mean, who would have thought that underground, surrounded by a reversed tarot theater, there would be such beauty?
However, just as the weather changed, the storm stole the earth, the firmness of his feet, and the sand as family, torn apart in a curse woven by... divine?

-Have you heard about the ceremony of the sands? The earth is moving. It was a series of islands when I arrived. Apparently it is called "wandering land".
The fine sand brought here from the mouth of a mainland river apparently accumulated like this thanks to ocean currents. The combination of tides and the complex currents created by the countless underwater tunnels causes the shape and location of the earth to change endlessly.
You understand? They built a structure so that even if the fine sand we have left is lost, if all the sand sinks, they still won't be affected, so we're replaceable. It's the End for Our Family (Shiroyama Biondetta)

"It looked like land, but it wasn't land. It looked like an island, but it wasn't an island. It looked like the ocean, but it wasn't the ocean. It was just his family theater.
A single deep shaft opened underground in that fantastic place. This strange combination of the definite and the vague played a part of its own.
It felt like the entrance to another world.
It had the same mystical feel as the rabbit hole the eternal girl had fallen down. It was said that she fell for so long that she lost track of time and managed to grab a pitcher from a shelf on the wall."

-Without family, we are just mere pieces of meat that pretend to think. Therefore, I was affected by the queen, I became the hatred that the white queen has. There's a part of me still resisting this, my heart hasn't died yet, so... If I do anything remotely suspicious, kill me immediately. I don't care how. You can hit me in the back of the head when I'm not looking or you can face me head on and crush me with the White Queen. If you do that, I can remain your big sister until the end. (Shiroyama Biondetta)

The sand was his family's firmament, but it seemed that everything was being consumed, by society and by the pure white that the power system managed.
What was the reason, what was the exact sentence to get closer to the truth?
Was it society that was corrupting the white, or was it the white that illuminated the rotten parts of society?
Regardless, Shigara Masami arrives again, with the best possible proposal:

-A system that is necessary for human evolution, can never be forgotten by the achievements of the past, but must coexist in one way or another. What was built was not useless, as it was the fragments of kindness that survived every clash of malice that made the peace that exists today. Whatever system it is, it cannot give in to logic completely, it must always be full of humanity. So say good morning in the morning, accumulate everyday life, and have peace in your soul, even in the midst of a whole stream of new information (Shigara Masami)

-The determination about the family surrounds all concepts, built by personal interests of curiosity and solidified with the cement of love. Thus, it is a struggle against degradation, where the original record structure (egoism) is bent by the passage of memories (love).
The choice of a group to be fostered by the configuration of a family, and how all these teaching records are opposed to their memories. So, the definition of the family is the first contact with the record and the passing of memories.
It may seem repetitive, but just like everyday life, the first kindness can never be forgotten. Regardless of how much external information crosses your mind, you can never forget what your memory keeps, the love, the smell of those people who grew up with you. Regardless if these sands become separate islands, when we meet again we will remember everything (Shigara Masami)

Seeing that in the midst of so much darkness, the only real reason Kyousuke was close to the queen was because she was his only family by his side (after all, there was nothing else besides everything, which was white), even if in a way form, undesirable, was his point of return to forget his sins and his own sentence of execution.
All the definitions and fragments of the scattered white queen that collapsed the soul of man, precisely for the benefit of corrupt entities...
So fragmented to the point of no longer figuring out what was passion and what was right, the two of them coexisted by collapsing their beings.

-Kyousuke sought too much what was right to understand his love, and the Queen sought his love to the point of abandoning what was right (Shigara Masami)

So, at the very moment when the queen decided to love every part of her being broken and manipulated by human corruption, she forgot what was right and focused on her unbridled passion.
As desperate as he was, Kyousuke decided to sail across the sea with his rescue ship called "white queen", his petition being to God for everything to be okay, so that the sea doesn't throw all the sand away (wandering land), to that he was able to visit the 15 islands that were separated again, so that all that accumulated sand could form his family again in a boat that sailed through the sea of ​​uncertainties and malicious waves that pulled towards a typhoon of conspiracy



All in all, I could still say a lot about the work, but given the lengthy lines described so far, I'll spare my own amusement. I'll just leave a few questions for the future...
Why is Kyousuke a guided missile?
Who was the happiest princess in the world, who had to understand that if in her loneliness, the world forgot to provide her with passion, then the problem was the world, or was it that she must learn again how to fall in love with the world?
And I couldn't forget the story of Lu Niang's valor in escaping his own slave mind and understanding the value of his struggle, his freedom, his great coming of age!
And the greatness of phobia and phillia!? Kyosuke was driven by phobia, but he was looking for phillia!? So why not accept the white queen!?
There is also Tarou Ishigaru's distortion of everyday life, refuted by Shigara Masami!
Olivia Highland's innocence, where the strongest used the pure girl's ignorance to distort her belief and faith!
Finally, colorless girl who could be filled in with anything, but then what could fill in the white? Thus, starting the journey of the antagonist's search for the human essence and resulting in the explosion of her "cocoon"!

I also leave a small dialogue between White Queen and Kyousuke Shiroyama, when they collapse in their own likeness.....

-No one needed logical excuses to hide their feelings. For a confession, there were no excuses like the pursuit of knowledge, alices, rabbits or any other illusion! Deep down, in all origins, man was like a baby, pure and who only irrationally wanted a family, and it wouldn't need logic to explain that. AND YET...! Does the human being really not need the love of a girlfriend who tarnishes and destroys his precious family? Is that the only reason you use fear and hate to push me away? You're just making more and more excuses for your heart, you crybaby! (White Queen)

-I don't want an omniscient and omnipotent being making all your decisions because is horny! Love and romance are meaningless if you want to talk about justice and responsibility. I'm not going to let this all end with some baseless argument like """All's well that ends well"""" Call it logical excuses all you like, but I'm not going to run away from my responsibility for the world as a human, so don't run away either , you damn romantic goddess!!! (Shiroyama Kyousuke)



STORY: 9 (Philosophy, beautiful questions and answers, plus a script complex enough for all this magnificent approach.
For almost everything there is a meaning that is redirected to the origin of the work, mainly for the construction of the world itself, in a flow of information with almost 100% yield and almost 0% loss!
I like to divide this work into 4 arcs...!
Introductory Arc [MS1-MS3], Flashbacks Arc [MS4-MS5], Battle Against White Arc [MS6-MS8] and Ending Arc [MS9 & MS10].
Arc 4<Arc 1<Arc 3=Arc 2.
Arc 1 and 2 only get better with each volume! [Volume 5 is a work of art!]. Arc 3, on the other hand, begins with the second worst volume of the work, but recovers brilliantly in volume 7, and closes in a divine way, with the best volume, MS8!
It's really a shame that although arc 4 starts out perfect, its final volume is extremely disappointing, being pretty much a summary of everything that happened, breaking everything from logic and the small system, to focus on a shounen full of asspulls [Is there any value in breaking systems, but how short-term that value lasts and is quickly replaced by disappointment and changes in strategy approaches. At least it's a great recap, albeit one with weak and shallow resolution; the worst volume unfortunately!]
If you plan to see a more detailed description, I made a tier list for this: https://tiermaker.com/list/random/mitou-shoukan--blood-sign-volumes-898365/3683896 )

CHARACTERS: 9 (Don't be put off by the cheesy harem aspect that seems to turn the characters into a walking cliché!!!!! You'll hate the characters in volume 1 as they are Renge and Higan, with mediocre writing and annoying personalities where their only deep function is to serve as a bridge for the introduction of the protagonist!
However, as time goes by, new characters come in and even some old ones like Aika and Niang-li gain great prominence and development.
Even with its cast composed of 99% women almost like an Indian harem of a king, the qualities will make you forget about the damn ecchi! Everything is hidden in this beautiful museum lost and forgotten by the romantic art of the world!!! If you want to know more, I also made a weird tier list for this:
https://tiermaker.com/list/anime-and-manga/mitou-shoukan--blood-sign-character--898365/3683894)

FUN: 8 (I had a lot of fun with arc 1 and 2, but I got tired of reading in arc 3, and a lot in arc 4, in its final volume.
I continued to love the organization of most of the plot twists and mystery builds. Sadly, I've lost some of my passion for world building.
I feel the reason for this is that, unlike the academic city in Index, Toydream 35 isn't as flashy and conspiratorial as it is, and the setting itself isn't captivating, as while sustained fairly consistently with politics, various changes in the narrative and battle locations, it doesn't delve too deeply into the beauty of each of them, as despite being complex in their philosophies, they are a bit hollow in the adventure aspect, as well as not being as creative in that each new scenario seems to contain informations to solve the problems. After all, they usually focus on the closed field of the "blood sign", with some variations of illusions and camouflages.
While it lacks a bit in scenario-based strategies, the little shortcoming didn't compromised its great beauty! Of course, knowing how to play with all this, where each loose piece feels like a new key point to be explored later, [as Index almost always did] is really captivating, even suppresses a little with the complexity of its battle system)

ART: 7 (Has its moments, but is by no means a standout.
Fairly simple and generic, which hardly conveys the characters' crazy feelings, but well... At least it's thorough in demonstrating much of the world's art and certain powers)


Finally, I bend my knees in respect to such a work of art. I cloud my mind with the story of an endless battle between man's passion and God's passion, but I clarify by remembering that there was still hope. Clasping my hands, with eyes always open to man and always in reverence to the divine, I say that the never-ending battle between passions ends when both stop to rest...
Every man is moved by phobia, rejoicing in his own ecstasy, but when he has had enough of all this, he prepares to rest in his phillia.
Yes..... Our little life has always been the result of the union between the love of man and the love of God


EXTRA NOTE 1: "No one had a monopoly on human strength, everyone had it equally as everyone had a heart. So stay strong and don't let the White Queen sway you. No one is interested in a romantic comedy"

EXTRA NOTE 2: -A little sister's food can't be delicious, can it? It's perfect because it's not good at all. The hopeless taste is what makes it so enchanting (Aika Toydream/brocon)

EXTRA NOTE 3: -There is an absolute treasure. But its worth is determined by a relative heart. (White Queen)

EXTRA NOTE 4: -Silly, isn't it? Reality is nothing more than a material used to build dreams.> (Yellow Gill)

EXTRA NOTE 5: “I bind this blood covenant in the name of the Spirit of Fluttering 'Yellow' Gills who Rules the Heavens (s – a – so – voice – tix – ei – yw – za), one of the Three who administer and guide the summoning ceremony. You are human flesh with a proper heart and soul, but from this moment on, you are a limited vessel that can contain all things. You will be a lord of the void who uses the power that fills it to sometimes bend the laws of this world. Then I will prepare this vase. I am a summoner, unable to leave the world of man, but a symbol of lofty intellect who uses power from beyond the world of man to guide the world of man into the next age!!”

This is my first review for a light novel series (and it's divided into volumes, so I am not sure what number of "chapters" I should enter as "read", but I have read 3 volumes so far)

What sets this series apart from typical Fantasy/Magic/Supernatural LNs is that the MC starts off as overpowered.

You don't have to wait for him to get stronger, you don't see the overused "try-fail-improve" trope, instead the author has focused on other elements like the way the "Summoners' Battle" are carried out, the complex rules, and how your achievements as a summoner don't matter much; experience counts to some extent, ... but the rules of the battle create an even playing field. Anyone can be beaten, everyone has access to the same set of tools. The summoners don't engage in physical battle themselves (although there are times when such battles are presented to a small extent). So, focus is more on strategy - including use of the environment in which the fights are carried out, as well as quick wits to counter the strategies used by opponents. And this is where the MC shines, because he has the ability to stay calm and focused even in the worst situations presented to him.

But as good as the MC is, he's hopeless without a vessel, who/which is needed to carry out the battle. On top of that, he's someone who can't ignore a cry for help due to his past, nor does he let people get too close to him, because the story is not all about MC battling with other summoners with vessels and thwarting evil, but how everything is connected to the biggest thorn in his life - the White Queen, a psychotic, immeasurable, incomprehensible power from an unknown world who claims she is in love with the MC. She toys with him ruthlessly at will, only so that he'd "love her back", but his past has taught him better.

You are sometimes led to believe that the MC has figured everything out, that no one can truly outsmart him, but then steps up the Queen, an all-powerful, unpredictable yandere, and when some of the answers are laid out at the end of each volume (it's usually one major arc per volume), it takes you by surprise and also generates a curiosity as to what she'd do next to gain MC's attention.

There is a bit of art presented which seems generic like "Devil is a part timer", and new characters are introduced at regular intervals, but the author does a great job of not letting them overwhelm you by keeping the focus majorly on MC and the Queen's relationship. Some characters seem stereotypical, you could even call it a generic harem - a bold one, a shy one, the little sister figure, and so on. Some of these characters are also used to provide comic relief from time to time. But nothing can come between the Queen's obsession with the MC, and she makes it known with her actions quite a few times, like how she easily gets angry if the MC mentions another girl in her presence or ignores her - she'd happily annihilate everything in existence on a whim if MC upsets her too much.

One might think that such an over-bearing entity would easily dominate the plot, but the rules presented by the author make sure she doesn't appear all the time. The plot in each volume starts off slow, and picks up pace around the middle. So, despite being the second main character, we only see her when the plot thickens, but the wait makes it worth it, because we see how she's connected to all of it, and that's what drives the series forward.

Overall, a must read if are into supernatural action coupled with some really good story. There's a bit of tragedy regarding MC's fate because no matter how smart he is or how hard he tries, he can't completely stop someone like the Queen. He doesn't give up while she keeps coming back to haunt him, and that's what makes it so exciting.

I have a lot to say about this series, the author, the plot, the writing and the characters. This could have been a long detailed review but I do not feel like this series is worth it. I was going to drop it after volume one, then volume 3 but I decided to see just how crappy this rabbit hole gets.

I have a few problem points with this series

The main character has had every chance to easily resolve the issues between him and queen in every volume but doesnt do it, he is fixated on one outcome will easily ignoring the alternatives.

as another reviewer states ... this leads to the problem of all of the issues in this series could have been solved easily if the MC wasnt so dense.

It takes until volume 5 for the information necessary to make this series even remotely interesting to happen. Up until volume 5 you have no reason to care about the world or the characters and even that is still option by the end of vol 5

The author repeats the same exact paragraphs full of information he just repeated a page or two ago multiple times per chapter in each volume. I can not stress how annoyingly stupid this is, this series would only be like 5 volumes long without this.

The author has some weird obession with under age girls and their underwear and "little butts" and he will keep stressing over it in every volume.

The story is not written well, like I said most of what you will be reading is information being repeated to you.

The main character is one of the worst cases of a know it all its to the point where he might as well be god because he knows more than literal gods that appear in this series. He can solve any problem and is always 20 steps ahead of everyone. He is a normal human but can pick complex locks with his fingers, beat down ships and monsters/gods with a stick. He is pretty much omnipotent.

The only interesting character is white queen and you will be on her side by the end of vol 9

I don't really know how the chapter count works for Light Novels, so just know that, as I'm writing this review, I've finished Volume 01.
First, this is another series by Kamachi Kazuma. Maybe you know him from the To Aru series, or Heavy Object, or something else.
This story focuses on the Summoning Ceremonies, the Summons and the Summoners. Though it presents a very "unusual" take on it, at least that's how I felt like.
I admit that, once I first gave this one a go, I quickly gave up due to how "different" the combat worked and how strange the world was. But, after a while, ... I found myself coming back to this and giving it another go. I mentioned the result of this at the start of this review.
I won't dive too deep into the story, both to avoid spoiling it for someone and because I feel like no matter how much I write, I won't be able to truly explain the story.
In short, the protagonist is Shiroyama Kyousuke. As he was on his merry way, he found a girl, Meinokawa Higan, being attacked and decided to help her. After which, Higan asks Kyousuke's help to save her sister, Renge. And so the story is set on motion.
Like I said before, I don't think I was able to explain it properly, but I'll be happy if it at least got you curious to check it out.
Lastly, what I'll say is that, although things might seems strange at first and you might have difficulty imagining the combat and whatnot, stick with this at least until the end of Volume 01. I guarantee you won't regret it.