{"id":9410,"date":"2021-11-07T19:34:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T19:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=9410"},"modified":"2021-11-11T00:46:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T00:46:42","slug":"the-faraway-paladin-the-boy-in-the-city-of-the-dead-the-archer-of-beast-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/the-faraway-paladin-the-boy-in-the-city-of-the-dead-the-archer-of-beast-woods\/","title":{"rendered":"The Faraway Paladin: The Boy in the City of the Dead & The Archer of Beast Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first<\/a> Saihate no Paladin<\/a> book plays out like a pretty standard overpowered reincarnation-themed isekai<\/a> story. Its main defining features being that it doesn’t have any love interests and (as the title would suggest) has a rather large focus on religion.<\/p>\n

The follow-up, Archer of Beast Woods<\/a>, takes several steps backward in the dialog department and comes across like a bait & switch. It feels very much like a combination of TenSura<\/a> and Hachinantte<\/a> (minus the female characters). How did it turn on a dime from adventuring Paladin to kingdom-building lord? What possessed the author to make such a shift?<\/p>\n

At this point I’m not sure I want to follow the series any further. The protagonist’s personality is oddly and inconsistently immature, his party members feel more like literary constructs than people, the constant references to praying and holy bread are annoying, and event developments don’t feel even slightly natural.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first Saihate no Paladin book plays out like a pretty standard overpowered reincarnation-themed isekai story. Its main defining features being that it doesn’t have any love interests and (as the title would suggest) has a rather large focus on religion. The follow-up, Archer of Beast Woods, takes several steps backward in the dialog department and comes across like a bait & switch. It feels very much like a combination of TenSura and Hachinantte (minus the female characters). How did it turn on a dime from adventuring Paladin to kingdom-building lord? What possessed the author to make such a shift? At this point I’m not sure I want to follow the series any further. The protagonist’s personality is oddly and inconsistently immature, his party members feel more like literary constructs than people, the constant references to praying and holy bread are annoying, and event developments don’t feel even slightly natural.<\/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":[28,526,527,510],"class_list":["post-9410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-related","tag-fantasy","tag-kanata-yanagino","tag-saihate-no-paladin","tag-young-adult-novel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9410","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=9410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}