Seirei Gensouki
Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles

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I live in a relationship of love and hate with this novel, some parts I love it, in others I hate it with all my might.

Story: 6/10

The story is a bit different from the other isekai novels, this time instead of the protagonist reincarnating in another world, he dies and only his consciousness is transferred to the body of a person already alive in this other world, and with that he ends up acquiring for himself , the wishes of that person. The romance and the drama also deserve to be mentioned, this novel narrates it in a very good way for a harem/isekai story.

Another ... interesting part is that in this novel the life of the protagonist begins very hard, he is a orphan living in the streets of a medieval-like fantasy world, and this is something that we rarely see in stories of this genre. Wink

Now we go to the problem, the story of this novel starts very good, and in a non generic way, but some chapters later, the pace begins to get VERY slow. It is disappointing, soon the story begins to bring clichés of the genre, sadly, it starts differently, but after a few chapters, it is the same as any other story of the genre.

Art: 8/10

well, it does not have much art, it's a light novel after all, but the little art it has is pretty.

Characters: 6/10

The protagonist Rio is the only intriguing character, since he is a conscience
with his own feelings and desires, which hosts the feelings and desires of another person. He is completely different from the other generic harem protagonists, since he already says which girl he loves, from the beginning.
He did not even pay attention to the other girls.

Honestly, he is the only character worth mentioning here, since heroines are generic and follow common archetypes in this genre, such as furry imouto, loli teacher, etc.

Overall: 7/10

The overall story is very nice, has its low points, but worth reading, is a good light novel. The slow pace is annoying, but it can keep you going, making you anxious about what will happen in the next chapter.

Some characters are generic and annoying, but the protagonist is so interesting that you do not want to care much about others. Anyway, it's worth it.

After waiting over a year for english translations I began reading both the light novel and the web novel, during that time I found that I lean more towards the light novel's progression of Rio throughout the story.

This novel still has lot of problems with it as the main character can be really open and yet be extremely cold at times which don't seem to make sense, to me at least. I have also found the pacing to be too quick sometimes rather than slow, as the progression picks up extremely quickly around volume 4 which I find to be a bit too quick.

Overall however, ... this novel has a lot of potential and hopefully as i read on with each book being translated all these problems are fixed. I definitely recommend you pick this book up and read it for yourself.

Seirei Gensouki gets off to a great start. The first three volumes are fairly interesting and get the series off to a decent start. Near the end of those volumes, though, everything basically stops. Half of the writing becomes people apologizing to each other just continuously. As of volume 8, it seems like an even greater proportion of the writing is just formalities and apologies.

Any character with an ego is portrayed as a bad guy, which means that no characters that you're meant to care about have any personality to speak of. This is typical for an isekai protagonist, but usually the characters around ... the protagonist are interesting to make up for it. That is not the case here. Every character feels exactly the same as every other character: sad, flat, and romantically interested in the protagonist.

The art is generic as hell. I often can't even tell which character is which in the art, as they all look basically the same. That wouldn't be so much of a problem if every piece of art wasn't just a group of characters standing around.

The story starts with a goal, then loses sight of it very quickly. It feels like a slough to read through the most recently-published volumes because it just doesn't go anywhere.

I recommend the first volume, but any more than that is not going to improve your view on the series.