Ore ga Heroine wo Tasukesugite Sekai ga Little Apocalypse!?

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Synonyms: Our Heroine is Saved So Much that the World Becomes a Little Apocalypse!?, Ore ga Heroine wo Tasukesugite Sekai ga Little Mokushiroku!?

Japanese: 俺がヒロインを助けすぎて世界がリトル黙示録〈アポカリプス〉!?

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Type: Light Novel

Volumes: 16

Chapters: 118

Status: Finished

Published: Jun 1, 2011 to Jun 1, 2016

Genres: Fantasy, Romance

Theme: Harem

Serialization: None

Authors: Watanuki, Nao (Art), Namekojirushi (Story)

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Ranked: #14917²

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Popularity: #12603

Members: 1,276

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Light NovelWatanuki, Nao (Art), Namekojirushi (Story)

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Volumes: /16

Chapters: /118

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Namidare Rekka has a very unusual birthright. After his 16th birthday, he will be drawn into many different stories. Each story has a heroine, and each story depends on him to be the hero. On his first day of high school, a strange uniformed girl that only he can see shows up. She claims to be from the future and claims that his rescuing of many heroines is going to cause serious trouble for the future.

It's not long after this encounter that his troubles begin. His childhood friend Satsuki invites him somewhere, possibly to confess her feelings for him. However, before she can, she's kidnapped! Rekka wants desperately to help her, but he finds himself being tossed into various sci-fi and fantasy worlds, each with their own heroines in trouble. Will he be able to get back to Satsuki? Will he be able to save all the others? How can he really tell the consequences of his well-meaning actions?

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Ore ga Heroine wo Tasukesugite Sekai ga Little Apocalypse!? was published digitally in English as I Saved Too Many Girls and Caused the Apocalypse by J-Novel Club since January 6, 2017 to October 27, 2019.

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Jan 8, 2022

hexashadow13

Recommended

tl;dr: A light novel series with a plot centered around combining stories that is pretty formulaic but has enough variety to the stories that it’s pretty interesting.

This light novel series is about a boy named Rekka who on his 16th birthday inherits what is called the Namidare bloodline. Those with this bloodline are destined to encounter heroines whose stories are fated to end in tragedy unless they are assisted by a Namidare. Rekka is hesitant at first to get involved with this because it seems completely outlandish and he’s just a normal high school student, but after getting pulled into enough stories he loses this ...

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May 23, 2023

abystoma2

Mixed Feelings

At the point of writing this review, this novel is ranked among the worst rated novels on MAL. I have already read a decent amount of bad light novels, some of which were even quite favourably rated, so seeing the general reception through the score I braced myself for the worst, a terrifyingly painful experience. So imagine my surprise when Little Apocalypse turned out to be… decent?

This have could been helped by my fondness of fictions that work with concepts. Because what Little Apocalypse does is it takes the trope/cliché of a harem protagonist just so constantly running into girls that happened to be in ... need of saving and thus adding them to the harem. And that is exactly what the “superpower” of our protagonist is – to keep getting dragged into stories of various heroines. The strength of Little Apocalypse lies in this being a literal condition. This turns it from being cliché into being meta. This way, the storyline can also get more ridiculous and what would otherwise be considered overboard, as it makes sense within the laid out logic of the world.

Thanks to this setting, the scenery frequently varies and the novel doesn’t stick to two or three boring sets. Already the first volume shows clever use of such, as when switching between different plotlines/heroines the protagonist is involved with, the protagonist uses the difference in these settings to solve problems by borrowing from one to use in another in a fun fusion of genres.

It’s not all great of course (otherwise my score would be considerably higher). As is the trend with longer novels, the middle part is considerably weaker as the stories get more formulaic and less impactful, and not always is there time to properly develop the newly introduced characters. Still, once in a while there is an interestingly written paragraph of two, which is already more than I can say about the middle section of some other LN series.

I also appreciate that Little Apocalypse doesn’t go the cliché route of protagonist’s parents being absent either figuratively or literally. Instead, they too are actual characters in the story, and even though they don’t appear that often, they are directly involved in the overall plot and hold some extent of influence on it. This too helps Little Apocalypse to be a bit more than just another completely mediocre harem. Time travel elements are introduced and while not ideal, the story is aware enough to include reasoning why time travel can’t just instantly solve all the problems in the series and offers explanation why it’s only the actions of protagonist that could influence the fate. Explanation that ties to the initial concept of the protagonist’s power, so that’s nice.

The final arc of the story too is sparingly fine, as it actually ties up the major plot elements and draws from what the previous volumes set up. It’s actually kinda funny that in the afterword the author mentions that he originally intended to have “our adventure is only beginning” kind of ending, but thankfully rethought that as such kind of ending is usually insulting towards readers time spent with the series. So you do actually get a satisfying finale to the story.

Overall, there are plenty of much better books to read. Plenty among novels too. But if you don’t depend on quality that much and just want something “light” to read through, this is not so bad of a choice.

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Sep 20, 2018

YayaBunWa

Not Recommended

Preliminary (20/118 eps)

*Note: will refer to the title as Ore Little Apocalypse for short. Also, I haven’t read the manga but I really doubt it rectifies its shortcomings.
*Warning: there may be some small spoilers amongst this review.

Well, it’s been a while since I felt enthused enough to write a review on a book (or anything, really). The last time I did, it was because I felt a series wasn’t getting the attention it deserved; but this time, it’s because people should know just how much this novel ‘does right’ before tearing down all the hard work it put into setting up this shipwreck. Well, shall we ...

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