スタープレイヤー (角川書店単行本)

by Kōtarō Tsunekawa

路上のくじ引きで一等賞を当て、異世界に飛ばされた斉藤夕月（34歳・無職）。そこで10の願いが叶えられる
「スタープレイヤー」に選ばれ、使途を考えるうち、夕月は自らの暗い欲望や、人の抱える祈りの深さや業を目の当たりにする。
折しも、マキオと名乗るスタープレイヤーの男が訪ねてきて、国家民族間の思惑や争いに否応なく巻き込まれていく。
光と闇、生と死、善と悪、美と醜――無敵の力を手に、比類なき冒険が幕を開ける！
鬼才・恒川光太郎がRPG的興奮と神話世界を融合させ、異世界ファンタジーの地図を塗り替える、未曾有の創世記！

250 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 31, 2014

About the author

Associated Names:
* Kōtarō Tsunekawa
* 恒川 光太郎 (Japanese)

Reviews

[Meow Meow · Rating 5 out of 5]

In this story, some people got transmigrated to another planet, and was given the ability to make 10 wishes. The wish can be anything. As long as it is concrete, not subjective, and doesn’t defy laws of physics, it will be fulfilled, even if it’s resurrecting someone from death. Such transmigrant are called Star Player. Isekai is a theme that’s been used (or misused) so often in light novels that I tend to avoid them because I feel like isekai theme is really just an easier way for the writers to Introduce world setting to the readers and easier to write about a MC who has a modern way of thinking. Besides that, whether MC is really a transmigrant really doesn’t matter. Yes, the transmigrant may bring new technology and knowledge (mostly about food though 🙄) to isekai. I always find that ridiculous. Even an expert of any fields relies on others to produce the tools designed and made by other experts. For example, modern-day doctors rely on complicated equipment and drugs, which they don’t know how to make, to treat patients. They somehow always end up in a special and limited circumstances that their modern knowledge is deployable.

This novel shows how grounded isekai story can be when it’s written by a skilled writer. Yes, those wishes are tremendous cheat but average people mostly just make mundane wishes, like MC made herself look better and younger or created an extremely gaudy garden. Or another star player summoned a dozen famous idol stars to make a harem who killed him eventually because he was a pervert. The actions they take and the wishes they make are often rooted in the background and experience they had on earth, which make them relatable. It’s also really nice to see people from races and nationalities other than Japanese get transmigrated.