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Death March Kara Hajimeru Isekai Kyusoukyoku


Clephas

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Let's be clear about something first.  I will be the first person to admit that I am really, seriously strange for actually enjoying the anime version of this.  However, it turns out this story is a lot less frustrating in the written form, so I imagine that those that hated how the anime went might still enjoy the books.  To be clear, Death March is, despite the whole setup, essentially a story of Satou touring the isekai to see the sights and eat good food while incidentally (to his mind) saving the world again and again.  His overpowered nature never really changes from beginning to end, and I feel that he is a nice contrast to Hajime, the protagonist of Arifureta, in that he is the epitome of what you would expect from a good-hearted Japanese person with ultimate power and no real ambition.

For those who are curious, the web novel and the light novel versions diverge massively.  The anime follows (imperfectly) the light novel, where a lot of events were changed from the WN version, most likely because the WN has some tragic points early on that the writer thought didn't fit with the atmosphere of the story when he put it in LN form.  The essential points of the story don't change a lot, but there are certain arcs - such as the Lalakie arc - that simply don't exist in the WN version and some characters that exist in the Web Novel don't exist in the Light Novel.  

One thing that frustrated me as time went on was the way Satou consistently ignored the feelings of the (adult) women around him, even when they were blatantly obvious about it.  Considering this was an isekai anime, you would think he would just give in and enjoy the harem, given that he doesn't have any hesitation about using brothels, lol.  His ignoring the feelings of Arisa and Lulu (for the most part) made sense since he didn't have any sort of loli fetish, though.

If you were to ask me how good the story is, I would say it is significantly lower in quality than Arifureta.  If I were to say that Arifureta is at the level of my favorite VNs of all time, I would say that Death March falls somewhere just above the average.  If it weren't for the fact that the series fit my tastes almost perfectly, I probably would have dropped it after the third LN, and I certainly wouldn't have gone through the trouble to read both the LN and WN versions.  So, unless you liked the anime during the first half of the season (as unlikely as that might be), I can't honestly recommend the books to you.

Rather than being a series that gives me extreme laughs or feels, this one is one that makes me smile, more like comfort food than anything else.  

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