戦闘員、派遣します!

戦闘員、派遣します！Combatants Will Be Dispatched! (light novel) #1

by Natsume Akatsuki (著), 暁なつめ (著), カカオ・ランタン (イラスト)

「このすば」暁なつめ、待望の新シリーズ!

世界征服を目前にし、更なる侵略地の先兵として派遣された戦闘員六号の行動に『秘密結社キサラギ』の幹部たちは頭を悩ませていた。侵略先の神事の言葉を『おちんち○祭』と変更するなど、数々のクズ発言。さらには自らの評価が低いと主張、賃上げを要求する始末。しかし、人類と思しき種族が今まさに魔王軍を名乗る同業に滅ぼされると伝えられ――。
「世界に悪の組織は二つもいらねぇんだよ!」現代兵器を駆使し、新世界進撃がはじまる!!

Genres: Light Novel, Fantasy, Comedy, Science Fiction, Action, Humor

360 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2017

About the author

AKATSUKI Natsume
Name (in native language): 暁なつめ
Associated Names:
自宅警備兵
Jitaku-keibihei

Zodiac: Libra

Reviews

[Kate · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book starts with an interesting idea: villainous evil corporation has almost succeeded in taking control of Earth. They want to expand their reach to other planets. They send a combat agent and a support android to an earth like planet for a recon mission. This planet turns out to be a fantasy world with knights, magic and demons! This could have been a great story, but the characters were cliched and boring.

[Curtis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Zipperman strikes again.

[Bimugdha Sarker · Rating 4 out of 5]

some scenes were really imaginative! liked it. but dont screw up while animating, plz!

[Tomcat · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very fun book with twisted characters and fun scenes. Plenty of action and nice characters with a lot of personality. No doubt the author of Konosuba shines in this genre giving this series a good start.

[Nicole Westen · Rating 3 out of 5]

So what happens when you are one of the first minions to ever join and evil organization, and you survive every encounter with the sentai heroes sent to stop you, and your evil organization eventually wins? Well, you apparently become someone capable of BAMF combat, but still only capable of mook-level evil. Literally no one is powerful enough to stop your evil plots... but you plots consist of trying to end up in a series of rom-com level snafus.
Even though No. 6 is an ass, he's pretty self-aware of it, doesn't take it too personally when someone gets pissed at his 'evil' shennanigans, and doesn't actual take advantage of people when they're vulnerable (well, unless it's his job to take them down, but even then he's pretty low on the evil-ness scale). There's also a ton of cheesy tropes from 80's and 90's anime/manga.
I enjoyed this and I'm interested in reading the rest of it. It also has the feel of an isekai, without actually being an isekai. No. 6 and Alice are dropped on a habitable alien world by their evil overlords to start the colonization efforts, because despite having almost completely taken over earth, the planet is still trashed and humans will need another planet to live on. Luckily (or not?) this planet has human-like life, and they have a medieval-level society. So it's like isekai, without actually being isekai'd.

[Bernard · Rating 2 out of 5]

Kisaragi Corporation, a corporation that is evil and wants to conquer the universe has a problem. When you are about to end up with everything, how do you continue to expand? Teleportation and alien planets are the path forward.

You have an agent that has been around a long time and just isn't that really evil type that you need. Guess who gets sent first?

Not a bad setup. Has some original and genuinely fun ideas. The writing isn't great and the plot gets boring quickly.

I really don't care about any of the characters. This book just isn't all that good.

[João · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book felt a bit disjointed, and had somewhat weak characterization, which is particularly disappointing since I'm a big fan of KonoSuba. In the epilogue, the author talks about how this book has been kicking around for a long time, even before he started writing KonoSuba, which makes sense. Nevertheless, the characters and the concept are interesting, and I'll be continuing to read this series as we move on to the new material.

[Nicolas · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's basically konosuba but without technically being isekai. One guy with a party full of girls of questionable ages mostly young, standard big tits adult woman with a sprinkle of perv moments. The difference from konosuba is mainly the three mc is really the bad guy and is a bit more useful, which isn't saying much

[Alicia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Certainly the most fan service I've read in a manga in a while! Plenty of voluptuousness and barely-there bikini bottoms of the ladies who are magic, chimeras, and villainous sorts as Agent Six is sent on a mission.

There is a lot of action as he takes down the competition with his robotic sidekick on another planet. Plenty of creatively drawn creatures and fun action.

[Arielle Nathanson · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm not sure if it's the translation or what, but this is written terribly. I can never tell who's speaking and the point of view/narrator's voice just changes at random. And when it does change, I don't know which character is speaking. The anime was much better and I found this book boring and therefore difficult to read.

[Teeny · Rating 4 out of 5]

Got this for the Konosuba writer, was not disappointed.

Only Six is dumber than Kazuma but I want a fight with Aqua and Grimm-chan now lol.

[Niche · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay if you like the humor

This was written before Konosuba and I feel that it shows. The writing feels weaker and seems more like a light novel version of a gag manga.

[Dustin · Rating 1 out of 5]

This has none of the charm of KonoSuba but about four times the cringe.

[Dantegideon · Rating 2 out of 5]

The main guy is so stupid and shallow it’s hard to maintain an interest in him. I get that that’s the gag, but it wears thin.

[Milanijin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Uma leitura bem divertida. Pra quem gosta da comedia de Konosuba, vai gostar bastante dessa light novel pois ambas são do mesmo autor.

[Alice · Rating 5 out of 5]

I had see this on Rightstuf a couple of times, but never purchased a copy till now though I went digital and got it from Bookwalker, because I wanted it as soon as possible before viewing the anime when I saw it was out.

Why? Weird personal reasons that would make me seem silly so I won’t disclose them.


I throughly enjoyed my read through of this light novel, I laugh so much that I am pretty sure that I became a nuisance to my family who had to put up with my hyena ass xD.

[Richard · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book has some nice parts, won't call them good though, but overal it's pretty mediocre. The protagonist is positioned as evil, though he's not that evil at all. The evil he does are more or less pranks on people. There is a lot of focus on the ecchi part in this work; I don't dislike it but it's pretty overdone and for me it gets boring near the end of the book. I probably won't pick up the next volume in the series; not enough here to keep me interested.