The Faraway Paladin: Volume 1
The Boy in the City of the Dead

The next big thing. This is a breath of fresh air when you compare to the traditional light novel story plot. Everyone is always complaining it's always insert cute girl "A", have her meet the male protagonist, he is OP for some unexplainable reason and they live happily ever after. To all those peo......more

This novel was intriguing and I thoroughly enjoyed the characters within it. My two complaints would only be that the art felt as though it was meant to be in color and you lost a lot of meaning through it being in B&W, & that the plot was a bit fast in some areas but exhaustingly slow in others. Ot......more

One of the better first volumes of a light novel, The Faraway Paladin is the story of a man given a second chance at life in another world. This is a unique Isekai, a story that concerns travelling to another world / dimension, in a few ways. It's a posthumous story, and the character is neither sup......more

Will wakes up in the body of an infant, he recalls a past life where not only do both of his parents die but he saw himself as a failure of a son due to his being a shut-in. What's worse is not only does he know that he himself has died, as well, but his new guardians are a mummy, a ghost, and a ske......more

A triumph of writing, editing, or both. Undoubtedly translating, as well. I'll be the first to admit, I hold light novels to a lower standard than normal fiction. I have to, I tell myself, make allowances for something written originally in a serial format. Something written in another language. Some......more