最果てのソルテ 1巻

World End Solte Manga #1

by Satoshi Mizukami

時間と空間すら歪める「魔法汚染」に蝕まれた世界。両親を亡くした”幸運なソルテ”の、世界の秘密を知るための冒険が始まる…！水上悟志が挑むSFハイファンタジー開幕！！

Genres: Manga, Fantasy

Kindle Edition

First published January 9, 2021

About the author

水上悟志

Reviews

[Craig · Rating 5 out of 5]

Now normally I don’t review the manga I read, and I also have a rule about not picking up to many at once. When shopping for the next volume in a manga series I was reading I stumbled across this. Since they didn’t have my current read on the shelf, this only had one volume out and I had a gift card, I decided I’d just give it a shot. World End Solte is a new adventure fantasy manga with some magical girl tropes (Sailor Moon) in it. The story follows an Orphan named Solte as she adventures into the Fiend realm hoping to make it to the other side and escape the human world. Her adventure changes all when she finds a magical faerie and teams up with a boy cursed with immortality by god of war.

This was a very enjoyable first volume. It’s always hard to judge with manga if a series will be good by the first installment. This however did a great job. I will most likely be breaking my rule and picking this series up as well. I’d say it had some on the nose stuff, mostly in its naming of fantasy things, that kind of bothered me, but other than that I feel it did a great job hooking me. I’m writing this review because 1) doesn’t seem many people are talking about it online. 2) I think it has the potential to be a good fantasy manga and it needs more attention. I know it’s relatively new and will probably pick up steam, but with only 16 ratings at the time of writing this I feel it needs to be done. So I’d say it’s a solid 4.5 stars.

[Sol · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ah, quarterly, the second most painful manga release schedule. After a year of serialization, World End Solte has one single volume out. It's nothing particularly amazing (yet), but Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer/Rain of Stars, Spirit Circle and Planet With all had pretty slow starts, and they all turned out great by the end. I'll try and stick it out with this painfully drawn out release schedule for the sake of the amazing endings Mizukami has pulled off in the past. Can I hope that after the Planet With manga finishes serialization this one might go faster?



The premise gives us Solte, a young orphan girl who is thrust out into adventure after being given a magical artifact by a dying woman. The world has been devastated by the magical fallout from ancient wars, and only small portions are habitable by humans. She hopes to explore to the "end of the world", a place where the living can meet the dead. On her quest she's joined by an energetic fairy, a young man cursed with immortality, and her uncle. Considering Mizukami's track record, I expect it won't play out that way. Biscuit Hammer was not about the lizard knight helping the princess destroy the world, Spirit Circle was not about fighting a duel to the death with the transfer student, and Planet With was not about an amnesiac alien taking revenge on the defenders of Earth. Thus, I expect this will not be about finding Solte's dead parents. But what might it be about?



The above works all featured time travel and reincarnation, at varying levels of emphasis. I suspect the dying woman Saliera will turn out to be Solte, via regular time travel or asynchronous reincarnation. Celen the fairy has apparently experienced the events of the series before, but slightly differently. She might be a more major character than she seems to be. Tying into the above point, she doesn't mention Saliera, despite Solte mistaking Celen for her. So she might be Saliera, or they both could be. A legendary salvager named Ruin was mentioned. It's plausible that he's someone we've already met in volume one, and he was close to Saliera. Solte mentions in the prologue that she thought Black "knew everything", which could be a sign he's villainous. Megalomania is a trait of his villains generally, and omniscience was an obsession of the villains of both Biscuit Hammer and Spirit Circle. The head of the Purgatory Order is also a candidate, as is the "God" who gave magic to the world. The story is set in some seemingly medieval-esque world, but one of the landscapes Solte is teleported to was a modern city, and some of the relics of the Blightlands are normal technology like printers and rotary phones. The spirit science world in Spirit Circle turned out to be Earth in the far future, as was the origin of Animus and Anima in Biscuit Hammer, so I expect something similar is happening here, where "magic" is the result of some reality warping technology or psychic power.



The art is the same stuff Mizukami's been churning out for years now. Characters aren't particularly striking, backgrounds are generic, only the monsters have a certain toyetic charm to them. At the very least the simplicity of his art usually makes action scenes very easy to follow. He's probably the worst manga artist I'm interested in, but the charm of his characters and stories manages to elevate him to the top of the pile, so here's hoping the same thing proves true with Solte.

[Kayla · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really enjoyed the first volume of this new ongoing series by Satoshi Mizukami. Love the characters and the setting seems like it is going to be really cool. Just ordered the next volume, since it really ended on a cliffhanger 😆

[Sarahh · Rating 4 out of 5]

V cute so far