A review of the fantasy light novel series Reign of the Seven Spellblades. I hope you all enjoy it. You can pick up the series here: global.bookwalker.jp/series/2...
Found this channel years ago for VNs and with LNs growing in recent years here in the US, I find myself returning to this channel often to watch the LN related vids. Spellblades has been the top of my list of LNs I think I would love so thanks for the vid.
In regards to the secret organization/revenge: it is mentioned in the first 8 volumes in fact. It is a bit of a spoiler though, but it has to do with the interdimensional invasions. Spoiler: * * * * * The mother was not as much murdered as executed. She was breaking a law that had a kill on sight punishment attached, and the ones doing the killing were part of the organization responsible for dealing with those invasions. The mother was trying to get the mages to take a less violent approach to the invasions, or at least the other mages (and non-mages) who dealt/summoned creatures and magic from those other dimenasions, but we (and nor does Oliver) don't know whether it is even possible to take a less violent approach. The whole revenge thing might be evil fitting the whole there is no black/white and magic turns people insane aspects. So, no, Oliver cannot call upon the authorities, nothing illegal took place and in fact he is doing the illegal thing. And the organization supporting him are the idealists, mages who have been hurt by that kill on sight thing, and who also want to change things.
The magic and cosmology: I would call it strongly Lovecraftian influenced (the Fate comparison is meaningless to me who knows nothing about Fate). The reason there is a 20% death rate has more to do with magic turning people insane then just because student conflict being allowed. The interdimensional invasions also follow that path: corrupting the locals and turning them insane. (Also means that I would call it RL Earth influenced for ease of geography and culture, sticking to the England boarding school tropes, but it is way too different to compare it to RL.)
Nice. I am currently very much enjoying the anime, and I have high hopes for the novels, once this season is done. I've been excited for 7 Spellblades for a long while. Great video!
Let me explain the revenge subplot more thoroughly. Spoilers ahead, obviously. So, the mc is originally absolutely talentless in terms of combat prowess, but his mother was a genius of the century. She was trying to find a compromise between gnostic hunters and the cultists for which got tortured in many gruesome ways then killed by who she thought was her best friend and her six lackeys. The mc finds out and goes through hell to become pretty op for a first year student, but the people he goes against are the brightest mages in the world, all of them are war veterans and some are 150+ y/o one man armies, and he got to take them all down in the 7 years he's attending the academy, in which he gets help from the idealists who were loyal to his mother and are willing to die for the cause. And, obviously, after the first kill the killers start an investigation to find out who even could have enough power to kill one of them. The whole series carefully keeps us on edge, are they gonna find Oliver and his cousins out too early or not, and what new clues he's gonna leave behind after yet another kill, and when are his friends gonna eventually find him out and who are they gonna side with (some of them have reasons to side with the academy). And the way he takes down those monster mages are pretty entertaining and creative. I personally wouldn't go past vol 1 if not for this subplot, its a thriller at its best.
@@Belmakor19hat do you think what will happen Will Oliver Get his Revenge Or he will accept his past and move on because those who seek Revenge never ending will
Oh, I saw the cover in the thumbnail and thought we'd have someone more interesting than the generic "definitely not Kirito" cis boy for our protagonist but apparently I was not so lucky. At least the typical harem these kinds of series love forcing into their stories is more varied on the gender front? I guess that's at least a little different?
At least in the anyme the high point was the subplot exposed on episode 6. After that it went downhill pretty hard. I am sure that there must be some interesting developements on the subplot moving forward but there are som many useless fillers that it is not worth the trouble.
SPOILER Going to the authorities likely wouldn't help Oscar. His mother was killed because she was seen as a gnostic sympathizer. In that case, she would be seen as an enemy of their world. Even Oscar had to admit that, logically, he understood why they killed her. But as her son, he could not forgive them.
This isn't really a romance novel. I'm reading volume 6 now and romance is a non-factor. I mean there are obvious pairings but it's mostly background noise.
