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Various thoughts on a variety of topics.

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  • Tag Archives Arifureta
  • Abbreviation for the Arifureta: Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou franchise.

  • ARIFURETA #13 & Arifureta After I-V

    Posted on April 4, 2023 12:46 am by Offkorn Comment

    The last of the main Arifureta novels starts out much like Tensura’s fifteenth novel; showing the battle going on outside the Sanctuary from multiple different perspectives.

    That ends up taking quite some time, with most of the rest being spent on Hajime’s confrontation with Ehit… leaving little space for any kind of epilogue. So really, while this book serves as a solid enough conclusion to the Tortus conflict (and even Arifureta Zero due to the second epilogue) it’s less useful as a finale to Hajime’s and the other students’ story.

    No, for that you’ll have to read on into the Arifureta After chapters which were started around the time the fifth novel was published and are still ongoing even now (with allegedly one more arc to go before completion). Although mainly urban fantasy, they cover the protagonists’ return to Earth and related continued adventures in rather expansive detail across multiple genres including some more fantasy and even a couple sci-fi arcs.

    Only the unedited original web version is currently available however, so be prepared for a highly variable level of both quality and chronological progression. Some arcs are hilarious, others are painful, and very few of them occur in the order they were written.

    Tentative chronological order for the various arcs (the one-offs are all over the place):

    School Festival Arc 1-3
    Shizuku Arc 1-4
    Tio Arc 1-17
    Tortus Travel Arc 1-60
    Brutal Hero Shia Arc 1-14
    Kaori & Yue Arc 1-5
    Abyss Lord Arc 1-27
    Shia Arc 1-6
    The Two At That Time 1-2
    The Haulia Came Arc 1-3
    Abyss Lord Chapter 2 Arc 1-19
    Kouki Arc 1-18
    Hero & Demon King Arc 1-8
    Hero & Demon King Arc Sequel 1-8
    School Trip Arc 1-3 (Mundane School Life 2-4)
    Abyss Lord Chapter 3 Arc 1-24
    As the Daughter of Demon King Arc 1-5
    Liliana Arc 1-5
    Fleur Knights Arc 1-3 (Chapters 294, 296, & 297)

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  • ARIFURETA SHOKUGYOU DE SEKAISAIKYOU: ZERO

    Posted on August 13, 2022 12:39 pm by Offkorn Comment

    This six-book companion series to the main Arifureta storyline reveals how the various labyrinth architects met and were ultimately defeated by Ehit.

    For the most part it’s just more Arifureta; the same type of humor, fetish content, and action style (the main differences being a complete lack of any harem aspects and the inclusion of an actual lolicon-targeted relationship instead of characters who merely appear abnormally young). That said, it lacks the pull of the main series.

    Partly I believe it’s because this is more of an ensemble deal without any real focal character. Supposedly Mieldi is the protagonist, but at first Oscar seems to take that role only for the point of view to sort of fade back into a 3rd-party observer state for the rest of the series. It always kind of feels like you’re on the outside looking in, which brings us to the second half of the issue.

    While the main series has a rather varied group of antagonists… that is not the case here. It’s just the church, the church, and, oh yeah, the church. Fanatics all with zero depth. Making matters worse is that there’s no rhyme or reason to who has what powers. Both enemy and ally side-characters alike are just chock full of completely random unique abilities that appear to serve as stand-ins for their personalities.

    Those two things combined result in a work that’s rather difficult to get attached to.

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  • ARIFURETA #12 & So I’m a Spider, So What? #14

    Posted on June 23, 2022 3:11 pm by Offkorn Comment

    The 12th Arifureta novel is unexpectedly not the last in the series (if the afterword is to believed, the 13th will be)… that said, it does wrap several things up and expand upon a few things mentioned in passing earlier with all that’s left being the Hajime/Ehit confrontation. While better than the previous novel it ultimately feels like a stalling action however, and I would suggest holding off on reading it until the conclusion is available.

    Kumodesuga‘s 14th entry is also a bit unexpected in that it spends something like half its page count on detailing the world’s pre-system history and Ariel’s past in particular rather than advancing the timeline much. It does advance a bit though, enough to provide a conclusion to the Potimas conflict at least. The actual conclusion of the series will apparently be spread out over two more novels which were originally released within a month of one another. So here’s hoping that stays true for the translations as well (although ideally I’d prefer they be released as a single novel).

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  • ARIFURETA: FROM COMMONPLACE TO WORLD’S STRONGEST #1-4

    Posted on April 3, 2022 4:47 am by Offkorn Comment

    Originally, I had not bothered to read these since the events were covered (in abridged fashion) by the first Anime adaptation. After recently watching the second season though I came to realize that the adaptation didn’t merely skip events. It actually goes and changes some things as well… quite illogically at times in that season’s case. As a result I decided to read them after all.

    The first novel is covered by the first five episodes of the TV series and unsurprisingly ends up not actually having much skipped content beyond the students’ introduction to the world (which was eventually covered by a special episode). The second novel then gets compressed into the sixth and seventh episodes, and yet… you still don’t really miss much. Nothing all that important was actually cut out, and the Labyrinth exploration in particular was edited extremely well.

    The third switches things up by having been adapted into episodes eight through ten, yet again with nothing of particular value being cut out. Finally we come to the fourth novel which similar to the last one was also adapted into 3 episodes. A few more noticeable things were changed here than for the previous novels, yet in all cases they merely serve to streamline events. The only real absence that hurts is not seeing the hero party progress until they’re already near the end.

    So, all-in-all, if it weren’t for the dire state of the first Anime’s action scenes it would actually be a pretty damn good adaptation and can easily be watched in place of reading the novels (assuming you have a tolerance for periodically abysmal animation quality). Frankly, I’m shocked at how well whomever was in charge of the series composition managed to smooth out the event progression.

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  • ARIFURETA: FROM COMMONPLACE TO WORLD’S STRONGEST #5-11

    Posted on July 13, 2021 7:48 am by Offkorn Comment

    Although this franchise is getting a second Anime adaptation relatively soon, I decided to switch over to the novels since the (lack of) quality on display in the earlier adaptation makes it doubtful any continuation will end up any good.

    Happily, it seems the author is not one to pointlessly drag out their stories or cut corners. Less happily, it turns out that the content of the source material is pretty much the same as the content of the Anime. Meaning it’s a fairly stereotypical, if slightly more explicit, action-focused harem series with its one saving grace being not having an oblivious/indecisive protagonist. The Anime did leave out a number of things though, so I’m morbidly curious what the second season is going to do about Lily’s existence and the beastman city.

    Comparisons aside the story advances at a pretty brisk clip until you reach the end, where there’s a pair of two-parters. The 9th and 10th books cover the clearing of the last labyrinth while doubling as something of a character study, while the 11th and (eventual) 12th are the main plotline’s action-heavy climax.

    To be frank, I do not like the 11th book at all. Though the series as a whole has never given a shit about keeping consistent power levels, the constant stream of insanity present here goes well above and beyond what could be considered acceptable. It has no believability whatsoever, which robs what should be dramatic scenes of all tension. What the 6th novel pulled off this one unequivocally fails at.

    Which means I have little hope the 12th (and presumably final) book will end the series well.

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  • Cannon busters & Arifureta SHOKUGYOU de SEKAISAIKYOU

    Posted on August 29, 2020 1:57 pm by Offkorn Comment

    Cannon Busters is a bit of an odd series (which I suppose should be expected since it’s an adaptation of a western comic); there’s a notable contrast between the cartoonish animation and often dark/violent event developments that doesn’t always work. The comedic interplay between the protagonist’s mercenary exasperation and the two robots’ more innocent personalities on the other hand remains consistently entertaining throughout. The action scenes are so-so.

    Its greatest flaw in the end is that it’s unfinished, much like the source material, and the point where it ends does not engender much enthusiasm for a continuation.

    The Arifureta adaptation had a troubled production history, to the point that my expectations going in were rock bottom… which is a good place to be if you want to be pleasantly surprised. Which I was… to an extent. The setup and development here resembles Tate no Yuusha‘s, but the beginning is much too drawn out, the protagonist’s abilities don’t feel in any way natural, and the action scenes heavily feature some pretty awful CGI.

    The reaction and harem-related comedy is intermittently amusing, but the action is so bad and drama so generic that it’s barely worth bothering with even if you don’t mind skipping through large swathes of runtime to seek out the good bits.

    Also a quick note about two series I had a viscerally negative reaction to: Everything about Okaasan Online just screamed ‘turn it off!’ while the 2018 production of GeGeGe no Kitarou gave the impression it was made for elementary/middle schoolers.

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