Nejimaki Seirei Senki: Tenkyou no Alderamin

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Synonyms: The Wind-Up Spirit Chronicle: Alderamin on the Sky

Japanese: ねじ巻き精霊戦記天鏡のアルデラミン

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 7

Chapters: 32

Status: Finished

Published: May 27, 2014 to May 27, 2017

Genres: Action, Fantasy

Demographic: Seinen

Serialization: Dengeki Maoh

Authors: Kawakami, Taiki (Art), Uno, Bokuto (Story)

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Score: 7.45¹ (scored by 2,968 users)

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Ranked: #3375²

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Popularity: #2507

Members: 8,102

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Ranked #3375Popularity #2507Members 8,102

MangaDengeki MaohKawakami, Taiki (Art), Uno, Bokuto (Story)

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The Katjvarna Empire and the Kioka Republic are at war, and Katjvarna is currently defending their border against Kioka's attacks. Yatorishino is from an influential family in the empire, and she's taking the high ranking officer exams. To make sure she passes at the top, she's convinced lazy, anti-war, girl-crazy Ikuta to take the exams as well and help her, in exchange for a favor from her family. The first, written test goes as planned, and then they head off on a boat for the next. Unfortunately, the boat sinks, and Yatorishino, Ikuta, some other examinees, and a mysterious, important little girl are stranded behind enemy lines!

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Kitora Katjvanmaninik, Chamille

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Solork, Ikta

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Igsem, Yatorishino

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Tetojirichi, Matthew

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Becker, Haroma

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Remion, Torway

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Temari, Kanna

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Kusu

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Igsem, Solvenares

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Nov 13, 2017

CrazyLasagna

Mixed Feelings

Alderamin of the Sky (Manga) was somewhat of a disappointment for me. I started reading it after watching the anime, and I was expecting the manga to be better. To my surprise, I found it to be worse. The anime was far more fleshed out with the story and the characters, along with extra content that the manga needed. Also, some events seemed completely meaningless in the manga in which the anime had made meaning off (ex: Kanna). Overall, the manga I found to be just OK. However I am not saying the manga is bad, it just missed my expectations. My recommendation is to ...

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Dec 13, 2019

zwolf12

Mixed Feelings

This review is meant as a companion piece to my long review on the anime of the same name.
For details refer to that review, this review is to point out the differences between the mediums.

The manga has one small positive compared to the anime and that is more time spend on a few side scenes that enhance the characters, but also a few that give less characterization.
One example is an older woman fleeing Iktas room after Yatori knocks, something the anime tells us is happening, but never really takes the time to show us. Unfortunately these positive examples are far and few between and don't ... really compare to the negatives the manga version of this story brings with it. In the end the characterization is similar to the anime, but gets dragged lower by the other problems.

So to the big question, what makes this manga a failure compared to the anime (or probably LN as well, not read yet, review coming at a later date)?
First of all, the artstyle is problematic. The story portrays a dark and heavy epic about war and the effects it has and the artstyle, while not bad, is a bad fit for this kind of story. The character designs are more fit for a high school romantic drama than a dark and sometimes action packed war story.
Especially in the spectacular fight scenes of the anime the manga can't keep up with the action and visualization of what's happening.

Second the structure undergoes some changes, but all these changes fail to be effective and even diminish the effect, compared to the structure of the anime (here it would be interesting to have the context of the LN, so I will maybe complement this part at a later date).
Big reveals are losing the gravitas, the anime build up through the direction, and have their impact lessened in manga panels that feel unimportant.

The third point might hurt the most, because here I expected the strength of the manga over the anime, in the world building itself. Regrettably even here the manga stumbles and somehow the anime managed to pick more small world building details and spread them throughout the runtime, while the manga not even managed to build something more through the backgrounds. The backgrounds feel like standard issue pictures that could fit with many other stories and worlds.

The manga not just loses in the depiction of action and lessens the impact of decisions with far-reaching consequences, but it also adds nothing to the world and characters.
By no means is the anime the most beautiful anime, the characters look bland and the animation is only slightly above average with some exceptions, but it still manages to capture the atmosphere more effectively than the manga.

This manga was a letdown, especially compared to manga like Ascendance of a Bookworm that is in my opinion the best way to enjoy the story (compared to anime and light novel), because it makes perfect use of the medium. I expected this manga to, at least, be on par with the anime and was let down.
So far the anime is the better way to enjoy this story (my judgment to the LN will come later).

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Nov 25, 2023

Ahodesuga

Not Recommended

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I picked this up because the main characters seems interesting after 3 chapters and I like the artist, and while there were a few decent moments plus good military stuff, it is ultimately underwhelming. It's not bad but it's not good either, usually I wouldn't have a problem with stories like that as long as the hook or premise is something that can make one read it regardless of it's flaws (especially if you have high tolerance for poor quality as long as it clicks with you in one aspect), but this manga doesn't have such a thing.

I've never read the novel nor watched ...

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The TV anime adaptation of light novel Nejimaki Seirei Senki: Tenkyou no Alderamin (Alderamin on the Sky) announced its cast today. Cast Sorouka Ikuta: Nobuhiko Okam...read more

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