While the famous Light Novel is very popular, Is It Not Wrong to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? (DanMachi), So far O’Reilly has kept his work busy with the series and its various spin-offs, but recently hes teamed up with Toshi Aoi to create something new in the form of Wistoria: Wand and Sword. Does it prove that to be a must-read? Let’s look!
We’re following Will Serfort who attended the Regarden Magical Academy while pursuing the dream of becoming a Magia Vander, an awsome magician. Unfortunately, Will hasn’t all the magic talents to speak of in fact, he can’t really use it. The only reason he did not have been expelled from Regarden until now is simply because he is extremely skilled with a sword and has done some research to defeat monsters in the dungeon at the centre of the city.
Since the science is completely irrelevant to the question, Wills friend and teacher Professor Workner fear the hell fail to graduate, not merely become an Magia Vander. Wills is not ready for a break but drove a childhood promise for one to come and meet Elfie, who became the youngest in the world and then wait to meet her and meet her on the top of the tower.
If you like shonen’s manga, the set-up for Wistoria: Wand and Sword will be very familiar to you. It’s a purely human fantasy tale with a plucky protagonist who has the odds stacked against him and wants to overcome them with a talented talent not accepted by society. In this world, how powerful your magic is, you are. So you are constantly discriminated against against those who don’t have any magic. Even teachers eagerly seek to expel the poor boy no matter what lines they should cross to accomplish it.
This is your almost average underdog tale, but it is backed by a solid world-building and an interesting main character. The Magia Vander and the Dungeon are certainly much more complex than we currently know, but Omori is urging us to give us information and focus on Will’s adventures in the dungeon and around the school. I think I was the right choice, rather than overloading the reader with too much time.
The mangaka Toshi Aoi test the world’s most impressive skills. It’s also their debut series. The fight scenes are easy to follow and flutter the enemies of Will, while avoiding difficult magic attacks, while searching for an opening that can pull back his sword. There are lots of two-page spreads too, which will captivate us as we see these scenes unfolding. I think, as Will continues against stronger enemies, the artwork will become even better, which makes me excited for the future!
The character design, which are not very original and reminiscent ofHarry Potter and other Western magic academy stories, does a lot of damage to the artwork. Since this is a school setting, everyone wears the same uniform and there isn’t a lot of individual customization. As long as we get more extensive casts, I’m worried that it will be difficult to remember whos who except this. There’s plenty of time to be proved wrong there, so I think it shouldn’t be enough to get to Volume 1?
If you’re looking for something new from Omori, then it’s not a good idea. The series and Omoris DanMachifranchise have many similarities, i.e. dungeon and tower, in the centre of the city. I don’t think that’s a bad thing given how long Omori has been polishing this concept and how that experience takes off here, but, at the same time, the idea is a huge difference in the value of an individual who dislikes and dislikes other things or doesn’t want that kind of thing.
A second volume, Wistoria: Walp and SwordVolume 1 is imported to the West by means of Kodansha, where it has been released in one of their larger volumes of books and is, of course, valuable to the arts. The release was translated by Athena and Alethea Nibley with the letter written by Sara Linsley. The translation has no issues to discuss.
There are six volumes in the series in Japan, and Volume 2 is currently scheduled for a French release in February. This series appears on a fast monthly release date of English, in the case of Volume 6 and has forgone a first release to make its debut in print and e-book forms parallel. This makes me wonder if an anime announcement is coming next. That would be fun!
It’s still worth reading since its a complete read. To be honest, if youre a new reader of the other works, you’d like to try to pick these up to see what fate means for us, in a world with no wands.
Here can be read a free preview on Kodanshas website.