{"id":10392,"date":"2023-03-16T14:30:33","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T14:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=10392"},"modified":"2023-03-16T14:30:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T14:30:33","slug":"i-parry-everything-the-holy-grail-of-eris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/i-parry-everything-the-holy-grail-of-eris\/","title":{"rendered":"I PARRY EVERYTHING & The Holy Grail of Eris"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ore wa Subete o “Parry” suru: Gyaku Kanchigai no Sekai Saikyou wa Boukensha ni Naritai<\/a> series reminds me a bit of One Punch Man<\/a>, featuring as it does a protagonist who became ludicrously strong after having trained too hard. That’s the only real similarity though; their personalities are completely different and the comedic focus here is on a cavalcade of misunderstandings and poor communication skills rather than parodying battle shounen<\/a> tropes.<\/p>\n

Eris no Seihai<\/a> meanwhile starts off with a compounded version of that standard ‘girl gets framed by the person stealing her fianc\u00e9’ trope: The classic variety which happened in the past (and resulted in the production of the ghost half of the protagonist duo) and a modified version that serves as a spark for the main heroine. The problem with this novel is that it’s extraordinarily scattershot… it has no idea what it wants to be. A romance? A comedy? A thriller? A mystery? All sorts of elements clash against one another here in a particularly unpleasant manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Ore wa Subete o “Parry” suru: Gyaku Kanchigai no Sekai Saikyou wa Boukensha ni Naritai series reminds me a bit of One Punch Man, featuring as it does a protagonist who became ludicrously strong after having trained too hard. That’s the only real similarity though; their personalities are completely different and the comedic focus here is on a cavalcade of misunderstandings and poor communication skills rather than parodying battle shounen tropes. Eris no Seihai meanwhile starts off with a compounded version of that standard ‘girl gets framed by the person stealing her fianc\u00e9’ trope: The classic variety which happened in the past (and resulted in the production of the ghost half of the protagonist duo) and a modified version that serves as a spark for the main heroine. The problem with this novel is that it’s extraordinarily scattershot… it has no idea what it wants to be. A romance? A comedy? A thriller? A mystery? All sorts of elements clash against one another here in a particularly unpleasant manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[666,28,667,240,668,665,510],"class_list":["post-10392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-related","tag-eris-no-seihai","tag-fantasy","tag-kujira-tokiwa","tag-mystery","tag-nabeshiki","tag-ore-wa-subete-o-parry-suru","tag-young-adult-novel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}