{"id":13612,"date":"2026-02-11T06:33:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T06:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=13612"},"modified":"2026-02-11T06:33:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T06:33:44","slug":"witch-and-mercenary-5-kunon-the-sorcerer-can-see-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/witch-and-mercenary-5-kunon-the-sorcerer-can-see-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Witch and Mercenary #5 &#038; Kunon the Sorcerer Can See #5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The translation quality seems to be slipping in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0G1NMRYKM\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the fifth<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/im-quitting-the-heros-party-7-witch-and-mercenary\/\" title=\"I\u2019m Quitting the Hero\u2019s Party #7 &#038; Witch and Mercenary\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Majo to Youhei<\/a> novel, with somewhat disjointed conversations and occasional difficulty in determining who should be speaking (although the latter&#8217;s probably the author&#8217;s fault). The plot developments are rather abrupt as well while the book as a whole doesn&#8217;t really feel like a part of a greater whole. It&#8217;s not bad enough to get me to drop it, but it does seem like a red flag for future novels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Kunon-Sorcerer-Vol-light-novel-ebook\/dp\/B0FGXC1QF6\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The fifth<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/the-devil-princess-kunon-the-sorcerer-can-see-1-4\/\" title=\"the DEVIL PRINCESS &#038; Kunon the Sorcerer Can See #1-4\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Majutsushi Kunon wa Mieteiru<\/a> novel meanwhile just comes across as sidestory filler; the events here could have been summarized in a paragraph and nothing of value would&#8217;ve been lost. The humor is still amusing at least, but if the next novel isn&#8217;t both over 200 pages and focused on some kind of significant development I&#8217;m going to have to drop it here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The translation quality seems to be slipping in the fifth Majo to Youhei novel, with somewhat disjointed conversations and occasional difficulty in determining who should be speaking (although the latter&#8217;s probably the author&#8217;s fault). The plot developments are rather abrupt as well while the book as a whole doesn&#8217;t really feel like a part of a greater whole. It&#8217;s not bad enough to get me to drop it, but it does seem like a red flag for future novels. The fifth Majutsushi Kunon wa Mieteiru novel meanwhile just comes across as sidestory filler; the events here could have been summarized in a paragraph and nothing of value would&#8217;ve been lost. The humor is still amusing at least, but if the next novel isn&#8217;t both over 200 pages and focused on some kind of significant development I&#8217;m going to have to drop it here.<\/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":[1175,28,1174,1166,29,1165,510],"class_list":["post-13612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-related","tag-chohokiteki-kaeru","tag-fantasy","tag-majo-to-youhei","tag-majutsushi-kunon-wa-mieteiru","tag-paranormal-romance","tag-umikaze-minamino","tag-young-adult-novel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13612","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=13612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}