Yondome wa Iya na Shizokusei Majutsushi (The Death Mage)

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Synonyms: The Death Mage That Doesn't Want a Fourth Time, Death Attribute Magician

Japanese: 四度目は嫌な死属性魔術師

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Type: Light Novel

Volumes: Unknown

Chapters: Unknown

Status: Publishing

Published: Dec 15, 2016 to ?

Genres: Action, Drama, Fantasy

Themes: Isekai, Reincarnation

Serialization: None

Authors: Ban! (Art), Densuke (Story)

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Light NovelBan! (Art), Densuke (Story)

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Amamiya Hiroto is unlucky. His life consisted of misfortune after misfortune, culminating in an unlucky death during an incident on a school boat trip, trying to save a girl he barely knew. After death, he met a god of reincarnation who requested that the hundred or so dead passengers—one of them being the girl he tried in vain to save—be reincarnated into another world.

Yet a series of unfortunate events forced Hiroto to reincarnate with even less luck than before, starting with nothing but a tremendous amount of Mana. His second life, far worse than his first, came to a cruel end.

However, upon meeting the god a second time, he was informed that there would be yet another reincarnation—one that had already been set in motion and could not be stopped. Not wanting Hiroto to endure a third life filled with suffering, the god cursed him before he was reborn in the hopes that he would either die quickly or commit suicide.

Hiroto was reborn once more as a half-vampire, half-dark elf. A dhampir. Not wanting a fourth life, he is determined to live this third life with the only things remaining from his previous lives—Death Magic and his enormous Mana pool.

(Source: Light Novel Bastion)

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Yondome wa Iya na Shizokusei Majutsushi has been published in English as The Death Mage by One Peace Books since September 27, 2022.

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Zakkart, Vandalieu

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Talea

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Zakkart, Darcia

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Mar 31, 2018

DazedFury

Recommended

Preliminary (101/? eps)

Enjoyable, a LN that focuses more on the monsters of the fantasy world instead of the humans. Definitely worth the read. Child protagonist makes interactions between the characters interesting if not a bit weird at times.

MC is OP, calculating, ruthless, and fun to follow. The only problem I have with him is his lust for revenge fizzing out for a while.

The author also has no idea what he's talking about when it comes to physics so a word of warning for people who can't look past that.

There is a lot of work that goes into building the world and the different species that inhabit it, ...

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Mar 31, 2020

Nobody5464

Recommended

Preliminary (185/? eps)

The story of a boy screwed over by circumstance, people, and gods on numerous occasions. Vandalieu is a boy who has been driven to insanity by the cruelty and unfairness around him and yet to many people he might not seem the slightest bit insane because he’s not a raving lunatic despite definelty being crazy. Don’t go into this expecting the wrong thing, yes the main character is insane, yes he wants revenge against certain groups, and yes he isn’t afraid to kill. But, this does not mean he becomes an indiscriminate mad man murdering everyone who even looks at him wrong like some MCs ...

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Apr 18, 2019

Oriotiar

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (180/? eps)

It does start quite good, the premise is quite generic for a reincarnated isekai, but the revenge touch is a good idea. However, everything slowly goes downhill from there. If I had to pinpoint the moment when it's starting to lose in quality it would be when they join the ghoul village.
But unlike a lot of bad/mediocre LN is not that nothing made sense from the beginning or that it suddenly goes stupid, it's the combination of an accumulation of stupid shit happening and disappointments until one little stupid thing is too much.

But let be positive for an instant because that book is far from ... having no positive:
- most the characters are okay/good, they're likable some of the enemies are interesting and even if he also is an issue the MC is cool a lot of the time.
- the power system is as a whole quite good with interesting idea
- there's some enjoyable kingdom building
- the revenge story is good even if kind of forgotten later on
- and surprisingly there's an interesting reflexion on revenge and forgiving

But that last part is also a disappointment so let switch to the bad part:
- bad worldbuilding, at first it's kinda cliché, nothing more but as the story advances it became more and more obvious that the author is bad with worldbuilding especially when it comes to handling long time periods which is a problem since he uses a lot of them.
- the writing is also not very good, for example, we're regularly told how crazy the MC is (or his craziness skill level up which is the same as telling us) but it never really shows through his actions which stay logic and fair even to his enemy.
- speaking of the MC he is too op, which is not always a problem to take a similar type of setting Mushoku Tensei and The faraway paladin handle op MC very well. The problem here is that the MC's powers are quickly able to do anything even when it makes very little sense since his magic is supposed to be limited to Death and yet, for exemple, he is able to developed life which ties with the bad worldbuilding. Even more, since he starts with quite a number of limitations and is suppose to be cursed in a way that prevents him from quickly becoming powerful.
- There's a number of other little problems (bad pseudo harem, the plot not really making sense at times, ...) but let's end on what's probably the biggest problem: the Manicheism. A little isn’t a problem but when the series is supposed to be a dark revenge story it's already somewhat bad, but when it's to the point that knowing a character gender and race is all you need, to know if it's gonna be a bad guy or a good guy then it makes the story boring. And obviously, every good guy are perfectly good while half the bad guys become perfectly good (that's here that you need to know the gender), the other half being bad beyond saving for no real reasons.

To conclude, it's not really good, and I wouldn't really recommend trying it since like I said it's not bad from the beginning, so you might like the beginning but 6 volumes later drop the series, frustrated with the feeling of having lost your time (and I speak from experience here ^^).

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