Hakai no Miko Chapter v347 Discussion

A reverse weeb that fell in love with Tolkien wrote this.

If you're familiar with the Silmarillion and LOTR you'll instantly recognize the themes the author is using from the prologue.

A good balance of taking things to the ultimate consequence and how a "small country" that raises its development by introducing modern (Japanese) "culture" and TECHNOLOGICALLY VIABLE scientific knowledge of a 16-year-old, CLASH and fester conflict with a QUASY-MEDIEVAL setting

YES this is NOT a medieval setting... it's "similar" but the amount of development points to a period of time where countries raised themselves WITHOUT the Roman Empire, which from a historic and societal point of view is very interesting to read about... it's a mishmash of BRONZE AGE SOCIETAL advancement WITHOUT the Roman empire with the added technology of early medieval times, I was SO SURPRISED that it wasn't EXACTLY medieval... the author knows his stuff, it's just strange enough to call it a logical development taking a stance where Rome never existed, which I PERSONALLY LOVE since whenever you see a medieval fantasy, with the way it's structured, it assumes there was a ROMAN fantasy because of the developments shown (Without the romans there would be no medieval age).

IT FRIKKEN WORKS, and I personally can't stop gushing about the world building.

BUT THE AUTHOR WON'T SHUT UP WITH THE FORESHADOWING.

He tries so hard to pin the needle of "destruction" to eeeeeverything.

The author peppered the "Divine son of destruction" findings of the world in a distant future where we don't know anything about it by presenting papers, interviews, diaries, historian records etc thorough the story.

is it a metaphor? is it literal? wtf is it? who knows! in the end it feels wishy washy, and it ends up being annoying by the end of volume 2.

And I'm guessing the author knew because he kind of stopped being so blatant about it in the middle of volume 2.

Author may have tried to do something similar to The Saga of Tanya the Evil but failed.

But it's fine.

I forgive him.

Just the worldbuilding (without the foreshadowing) is enough to have me drooling all over this work.

And the mythos being living flesh, and the future dread, and the wits of our MC, and the characters around him, and the developments, and politics, and management... everything is so well done...

Read this.