The Death Mage Who Doesn’t Want a Fourth Time Chapter v16414 Discussion

Ok so I really had to put my grain on salt on this. This novel has it's good points, as it has its bad points.

The selling point for most people is in the first few chapters (like most boring or mainstream books), but the longer you read the better it gets. I re read the novel 3 times up to the translated chapter before going to the Japanese page (the translator pace is unbearably slow and google translate is good enough to handle the entire story) to read the rest of it, and it just made me think how much the author thought ahead while writing the first chapters.

I'm not going to be very specific, but he does foreshadow a lot of the events that will happen in the future Spoiler

a certain someone becoming a god and defeating him, to give an example.

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The world building is magnificent, I felt I was actually reading about a world that trully exist and that includes most characters, even some that will only appear once seem to have just enough depth to make you think they are alive, to some degree.

My only complaint in that regard is the character glossary at the end of each chapter, which is an info dump. there is a difference between learning how a chimera came to X place, and getting the full report of their life expectancy, reproductive cycle and all of that. It's too much even if you can just ignore it with no consequences.

Now the characters. I'm not going in detail about every single one as there are too many, even the author has no other choice than ignore some, or most of them near the end. I'll talk about the main ones, our protagonist and his biggest enemies.

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there is no plot armor per se. Our protagonist is literally a god of death in the making, so killing such an enemy is a chore on itself and most of his companions are undead too. Still I find there is virtually 0 deaths on the MC side.

At some point a lot of people died during a fight with a resurrected demon king, and he just reincarnated them with their memories. I get it, he has the means, but it feels... Too good and nice for him. But thats about it, no one on his side will die which is frustrating, but I prefer that over unnecessary drama or "dying because someone has to".

Now, Heinz. Yes, one single human man blessed by alda is about as inmortal as our MC. Not because he can't die, but because alda does everything in his power to keep him alive. Nurses him and his party in a place where even if he dies, he comes back alive, he gives him the most powerful weapon and god to serve. Most of the story just goes to show how much Alda believes in him, but near the end we can see how Alda himself starts going mad and all his support turns into acts an evil god would do. Fanaticism and madness are hard to convey, but the slow descent is interesting.

And last and least, Rodcorte. Most readers hated him from the beginning until the end. But I for once enjoyed seeing all his schemes go to hell and fail miserably. And oh boy, for everyone reading this, he does get what he deserves. They all do

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Now, some of the few things I didn't like.

This one isn't on the novel but the translation. It's too slow. 2 chapters per month in a noble with 513 chapters? The manga might actually finish before the translation does.

As I said before, there is a lack of casualties on the side of the MC. I hate unnecessary drama, but the fact no one dies is a bit bothering. About 1-5 do get defeated and die (one being the MCs mom at the beginning of the story), but trully, death isn't the end for it.

And my other real complaint is the MC. He'll stay a shota until the end of the novel. It's only half an issue because it was actually a clever way to stop the classical "harem" isekai novel.

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At the end he stays a shota, which he can change if he wanted to but for some unknown reason he doesn't.

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That'd be it. I don't regret reading this novel at all, so anyone reading this I hope you enjoy it. Support the translator if you want, or if you don't want to wait for years go to the wikia and follow the link to the original website. Google doesn't translate everything correctly, but it's more than good enough to read (especially if you know most of the names and words used from the translated novel)