ospalhJan 21, 2023
I’v been seriously panning Kamachi here recently. I ges it’s les his hault than i thought.
If light novel publishing works anithing like manga publishing, than the whole industry is highly competitive, valuing high volumes of action-packt text over any care for background research, or even consistency.
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Show threadospalhJan 21, 2023

Rabbi: »What would you do, if somebody was bleeding during Shabos?«
Student: »I’ll have to look that up in the Shulchan Aruch«
R: »Wrong. He just bled to death.«

Yeah, i said i would cut him some slack, but i was reminded of this joke.

So Kamijou find Index »collapsed in a pool of blood«, still alive, but still bleeding.

…

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Show threadospalh

So, what does he do? Call an ambulance?

Of course not.

He stands around a while. Then he chats with a guy for seven pages. Afterwards he gets in a fight.Very dramatic. Very long. 18 pages.

Then, finally not an ambulance, but firefighters arrive.

So he thinks about Index being an undocumented alien and carries her thru half the town.

Come on. You can always fight her extradition later, and try to get her asylum, as long as she survives.

Jan 21, 2023 at 12:02pmWeb
Show threadospalhJan 22, 2023

OK, so it’s not quite as bad as i thought.
Especially as some of the bits were i thought »that doesn’t work that way« … don’t work that way.
That was subterfuge by the author. Some people having been lied to and those lies becoming almost, but not quite, the authorial reality.

I still don’t like it as a literary stile. How should i know what bits ar wold building and which bits 🐃💩 in universe?

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Show threadospalhJan 22, 2023
This bit is the godforsaken translator not getting it. Get it?
»›Eri Eri Rema Sabaktani‹« should hav been »Eli, Eli, lema shabachthani«
Anyway,k the book is getting needlessly messianic.
Show threadospalhJan 22, 2023

Needlessly messianic again, that is.
After the protagonist being almost dead for a specific amount of time:
»(…)he had a (…) suspicion that there was some deeper significance behind the words three days.«
… thinks the guy who suffers to protects others.

But no, he is not the, what was it, the saint Corssism is about.