{"id":11218,"date":"2024-03-05T04:09:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T04:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=11218"},"modified":"2025-12-29T16:24:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T16:24:32","slug":"fake-saint-of-the-year-4-the-frontier-lord-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/fake-saint-of-the-year-4-the-frontier-lord-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Saint of the Year #4 &#038; The Frontier Lord #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/fake-saint-of-the-year-backstabbed-in-a-backwater-dungeon\/\" title=\"Fake Saint of the YEAR &#038; Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nise Seijo<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0CPJPZNRQ\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">conclusion<\/a> turned out to be a total disappointment, coming across much like a &#8216;what if?&#8217; fanfic. The Off to Japan segment in particular is just beyond baffling due to its massive food focus. Was the author just bottling up their desire to write a travelogue this whole time? Basically, unless you&#8217;re absolutely desperate for a contrived happy ending, stick with treating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/lns-lns-and-more-lns\/\" title=\"LNs, LNs, and More LNs\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the third novel<\/a> as the series&#8217; finale.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0CP5RHC4R\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The second<\/a> <em>Ryoumin 0-nin Start<\/em> novel meanwhile is much like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/the-frontier-lord-begins-with-zero-subjects-the-beginning-after-the-end-1-2\/\" title=\"The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects &#038; The BEGINNING AFTER the END #1-2\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the first<\/a>, which I suppose shouldn&#8217;t be surprising since according to the Afterword it&#8217;s essentially the second half of the story&#8217;s prologue. At the moment I&#8217;m cautiously optimistic for future developments, but the indications of potential future romantic tensions do not bode well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nise Seijo&#8216;s conclusion turned out to be a total disappointment, coming across much like a &#8216;what if?&#8217; fanfic. The Off to Japan segment in particular is just beyond baffling due to its massive food focus. Was the author just bottling up their desire to write a travelogue this whole time? Basically, unless you&#8217;re absolutely desperate for a contrived happy ending, stick with treating the third novel as the series&#8217; finale. The second Ryoumin 0-nin Start novel meanwhile is much like the first, which I suppose shouldn&#8217;t be surprising since according to the Afterword it&#8217;s essentially the second half of the story&#8217;s prologue. At the moment I&#8217;m cautiously optimistic for future developments, but the indications of potential future romantic tensions do not bode well.<\/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":[28,754,716,718,752,30,510],"class_list":["post-11218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-related","tag-fantasy","tag-fuurou","tag-kabedondaikou","tag-nise-seijo","tag-ryoumin-0-nin-start-no-henkyou-ryoushu-sama","tag-urban-fantasy","tag-young-adult-novel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11218","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=11218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}