#sinsora

[ahb-writes]

The important word was balance. Fail to control the anger in my heart, and I'd lose myself to destruction. But try too hard to save everybody, and I'd spread my efforts too thin and lose it all.

"Kaito Ukei" (The Hero Laughs While Walking the Path of Vengeance a Second Time, Vol. 2: The Spellcaster of Deceased Dreams by Nero Kizuka)

[ljaesch]

Yen Press Announces Six Manga and Four Light Novel Licenses for November 2021

Yen Press Announces Six Manga and Four Light Novel Licenses for November 2021

Yen Press has announced the following light novels and manga for release in November 2021: Title: The Hero Laughs While Walking the Path of Vengeance a Second Time (Nidome no Yūsha wa Fukushū no Michi o Warai Ayumu) manga Creators: Yamo Yomoya (art), Nero Kizuka (original story), Sinsora (character design) Summary: Kaito has been summoned into another world as a hero, and though all goes well for…

[cedarrockcinema]

http://supernaturalgears.org Sci Fi Short Musical EXCLUSIVE. The Supernatural Gears. Queen Sinsora of the 6th Sector Reptilian Vampire Dracs the non blood drinkers is summoned to Earth by the ancient Blood Moon Music Minstrel  Guild to join Lenny Llionstar and the Supernatural Gears to prepare for the coming impact of the Perfect Paranormal Storm hurling towards Earth scheduled to hit HEX county. Sinsora is being followed by an Assassin sent by the New World Order and the Billionaire NWO elites to kill her. To be continued....... HEXabaloo Pictures. FREE instrumental soundtrack download http://jamen.do/t/1782449

[hysae-chan]

[theocarinakid]

In honor of Danny from Game Grumps, I wore the sailor hat! and probably did about as well (terrible) as he did with it.

[nikkise]

[ahb-writes]

'The Hero Laughs While Walking the Path of Vengeance a Second Time' #4

The Hero Laughs While Walking the Path of Vengeance a Second Time #4: The Merchant, Mired in Greed by Nero Kizuna, Sinsora, Jake Humphrey

adventure

fantasy

gore

isekai

magic

revenge

swords and sorcery

violence

My Review: 2 of 5 stars

This novel series, this volume in particular, would be fitting for assessment by undergraduate students in fiction studies. From an academic perspective, facets of narrative focus, characterization, and symbolic continuity all vacillate so fantastically from volume to volume that an attentive student can pull reams of insight as to how one might (or might not) effectively compose horror fiction. To wit, THE HERO LAUGHS WHILE WALKING THE PATH OF VENGEANCE A SECOND TIME v4 is poorly written, despite integrating new and engaging characters, and retreading a script of familiar themes.

Kaito, now flanked by Minnalis and Shuria, hops over to a city called Dartras. Once there, he sets in motion an array of events queued to roil, embarrass, impoverish, and humiliate a mid-tier merchant named Grond Gordott. In his previous life, Kaito got the runaround from Grond. The greedy merchant funneled the hero's money into his underground criminal empire: drug manufacturing, human trafficking, child soldiers, secretive fight clubs. Grond was a busy guy, and his lust for coin resulted in an act of defiance that nearly tore Kaito's heart in two.

Naturally, revenge is on the table. The problem, in THE HERO LAUGHS…v4, is the author's resolutely terrible job of encouraging readers to care about the book's 230 pages of violence. The bulk of this predicament is structural. At the onset, the author strings readers along for nearly 50 pages before even partially clueing readers into what's actually going on (e.g., Kaito and the girls dig a random pit on the outskirts of town; Kaito spies on random people and makes vague arrangements; the narrative point of view hops into the heads of characters readers haven't been introduced to yet). The author lays on the foreshadowing extraordinarily thick, which is to say, quite lazily.

None of this does the story any good, because the nature this novel series isn't to surprise readers with Kaito's depravity, it's to connect them to it.

And that's the core problem: The Hero Laughs… is no longer about enmeshing readers into the emotional labyrinth of a man with nothing to lose; now, it's about overcommitting to the gore and incivility of its main cast, and nothing more. The previous volume hinted strongly of the author's inclination to diverge from this central premise. The current volume merely confirms the pattern.

Does the novel have interesting characters? Yes, but they're also awkward clichés. For example, readers meet a vicious young knife fighter, Nonorick, who is also an over-the-top, gratingly effeminate sadist. Readers again encounter Metelia Laurelia, a cleric and priestess with restored memories, who harbors an affection for Kaito. Except, readers encounter this mysterious priestess exclusively in an epilogue for the second consecutive volume. What a waste.

Is the violence clever and memorable? Yes, but it's also assiduously overwrought and unnecessarily confusing. For example, Kaito's fight with Nonorick is short and sweet and highly entertaining, but his end-game torture of Grond is hard to follow and goes on for more than 30 pages. The novel's first 50 pages will put one to sleep, and it's final 30 pages are no better.

Will readers learn anything new about the protagonist? Yes, but the details are nowhere near enough to warrant the spiderweb of chaos the author penned to justify them. For example, one of Kaito's soul blades, the Fang of the Close Shave, is a blade composed of "countless gnashing teeth" that chew the flesh of their victim. Very adroit. Or is it? The tool is wasted on a criminal underling, and the weapon is never used again.

THE HERO LAUGHS WHILE WALKING THE PATH OF VENGEANCE A SECOND TIME v4 is not a particularly good book. But readers who fancy deconstructing fiction for all of its curiosities may find something worth digging into. How much foreshadowing is too much foreshadowing? When are alternate points of view a benefit versus a burden to reader comprehension? What value do secondary characters possess when the novel's dramatic irony intuits their roles well in advance? What value do antagonists possess when their worth, to either the protagonist or the audience, is so foreign as to have been irrelevant prior to the novel's own events? What's the point of crafting a good foil if the character (or motive) in question never emerges from the epilogue's realm of possibility?

❯ ❯ Light-Novel Reviews || ahb writes on Good Reads

[bestofpixiv]

Artist: Sinsora

[cedarrockcinema]

Vocal version by Lenny Llionstar N’ Supernatural Gears of the Minstrel Guild.

[justsomeart-blog]

[ryukishi07]

Alice in Wonderland - Alice + the Mad Hatter

by Sinsora on pixiv.

[ahb-writes]

Book Review: ‘The Hero Laughs While Walking the Path of Vengeance a Second Time’ #2

The Hero Laughs While Walking the Path of Vengeance a Second Time, Vol. 2 (light novel): The Spellcaster of Deceased Dreams by Kizuka Nero My rating: 3 of 5 stars One man's anger and confusion, long since transformed into a hunger for violence and retribution, takes its tentative first steps toward absolution. THE HERO LAUGHS WHILE WALKING THE PATH OF VENGEANCE A SECOND TIME v2 isn't as doggedly straightforward and visceral as the first volume, but sets clear intentions of giving the protagonist every single sinful desire churning in his dark heart. And yet, whether readers are patient enough to see the character follow through may prove challenging. THE HERO LAUGHS...v2 delivers on the dark violence of its broad, narrative premise, but limps and lingers from the outset. The fantasy world's gradual incorporation of greater spellcasting, greater monster characters, and greater political machinations is solid. However, the book also lacks balance and consistency of narrative perspective and is frustratingly ineffective at delaying a climactic payoff. Readers track Kaito and Minnalis as they distance themselves from the chaos at the heart of the Orollea Kingdom. But what begins as a simple effort to level up and boost their stats, while plotting their future assault, hits a curve when the duo stumbles upon an adventuring party whose greedy and depraved members feigned friendship in a past life. That past-life adventuring party, composed of skilled-but-ruthless characters eager to screw over anyone not a member of the in-group, fall into Kaito's hands just as the young man starts on the path toward his next, real target. Kaito's next target is a corrupt spellcaster, Eumis Elmia, daughter of the lord of the City of Elmia. But before he and Minnalis can draw up a plan to take out Eumis, they must deal with the egoists in their way. Notably, THE HERO LAUGHS...v2 takes the interesting approach of exposing its antagonists through Kaito's vengeful gaze, only to later insert point-of-view chapters that tiptoe to the edge of sympathy. Sometimes, it works. For example, when Kaito encounters Hansel, a disgraced noble, he's aware the young man is obsessed with himself and obsessed with status. Readers enter the young sorcerer's mind and learn he's seeking approval from others because of his inability to discover, or reconcile, his own shortcomings. Hansel is selfish, and his death is exquisitely cruel and deserved; it's also very bittersweet. Other times, the use of multiple perspectives is a waste of space. Early-career authors tend to learn this lesson a little too late: When the book head hops, readers lose track of the emotional fortitude said to guide the novel, and one's familiarity and investment in the characters weakens. In short, urgency is lost. Jumping from Kaito's dream state to the present time to somebody else's view of the situation, and then back to the present time, one tends to forget what was so important with killing these fools in the first place. Absent the filler, THE HERO LAUGHS...v2 would either make for a more compelling read or an incredibly thin tome of little consequence. The difference, frighteningly, could be marginal. Regardless, the book's concept is still strong. Kaito and Minnalis don't skimp on the details when they plot their revenge. Bludgeoning? Decapitation? Acid liquefaction? It's all there and with plenty of clever twists along the way. Disappointingly, the novel doesn't quite get to Eumis yet, but it does elucidate a curious wrinkle in the plot: Eumis's half-sister, Shuria, is part elf. Why does Shuria's room have a massive sigil burned into the floor? And why was Shuria's home village completely wiped off the map? Eumis may not be the beneficent spellcaster she claims to be. Hopefully, this revelation portends much more to come. But the novel series' enduring dramatic irony of every character meeting their deserved fate continuously tracks as being too ambitions and high concept for its own good. What's the point of killing characters too stupid to defend themselves in time? Where is the entertainment value in pursuing an antagonist who doesn't believe their position is in true opposition to any established norm? Why have so many blasted edge weapons with fantastical powers without telling the readers what they actually do? At its rawest, THE HERO LAUGHS...v2 is dark and fun, but as a work of literature that demands credible structure and pacing, the author still has a lot of work to do. Light-Novel Reviews || ahb writes on Good Reads

[ryukishi07]

Parody of VOCALOID song "Magnet"; original characters by Sinsora on pixiv.

[ryukishi07]

Pixiv Fantasia V - 13th Experimental Corps

By Sinsora on Pixiv.

[ryukishi07]

Original character by Sinsora on pixiv.

[ryukishi07]

Carnevale Della Luce Della Luna - Romeo + Cornalina (I think?)

By Sinsora on pixiv.