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To Another World... with Land Mines! #1
To Another World... with Land Mines! Volume 1
“Hey! I’m an evil god, but I’m not actually evil!”
Those were the first words I heard in the afterlife.
My name’s Naofumi Kamiya, and my entire class died in a tragic bus accident. The god told my classmates that he would transport all of us to a dangerous new world, but he created skills for us on request, so maybe he was actually a good god?
That’s what I thought at first, anyway. But when it sounds too good to be true, it probably is! I feel bad for my classmates who thought that gimmicky skills would make them invincible. I mean, the god did warn them that there were no cheat skills! Oh well.
As for myself, I’m enjoying my life with my childhood friends, putting safety first and staying out of trouble. After all, this world might seem like a game, but it’s not. It’s reality.
Those were the first words I heard in the afterlife.
My name’s Naofumi Kamiya, and my entire class died in a tragic bus accident. The god told my classmates that he would transport all of us to a dangerous new world, but he created skills for us on request, so maybe he was actually a good god?
That’s what I thought at first, anyway. But when it sounds too good to be true, it probably is! I feel bad for my classmates who thought that gimmicky skills would make them invincible. I mean, the god did warn them that there were no cheat skills! Oh well.
As for myself, I’m enjoying my life with my childhood friends, putting safety first and staying out of trouble. After all, this world might seem like a game, but it’s not. It’s reality.
- GenresLight NovelFantasy
301 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 15, 2022
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December 28, 2024
This was kinda boring and odd how the teenagers were so thoughtful, almost too grown up in their thinking. It picked up enough with the introduction of the two other students, so I think I will pick up the next volume and see how it goes. I wonder how many skill points those two started with?
3, I’m willing to try one more volume, stars.
3, I’m willing to try one more volume, stars.
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January 17, 2022
After a bus accident claims his entire class, Naofumi finds himself in the presence of an "evil god," who gives them the option to choose skills and abilities for their new lives in a fantasy world. But the choices that appear to be powerful come riddled with land mines. Can Naofumi and his friends find a way to survive?
This reads like someone wanted to make an essay about what they didn't like about various isekai stories, and for some reason decided to make it a book instead. It has a few good ideas, but lackluster execution. It gets way too bogged down in ramblings about mostly-irrelevant topics (when they aren't outright unnecessary---the worst of which by far was the "you guys can satisfy your urges as long as I'm not in the room" conversation)
The idea behind the skills was good. Skills are by and large just some system-codified version of "things you could probably learn by working for them," which means cheats like skill stealing, Hero talent, EXP boosting, and so on have all sorts of nasty side effects. Hero, for instance, attracts trouble.
But then you end up with a large, large chunk of the book being talk about skills and how various characters picked their build, which is not exactly the most engaging reading (and I've still read books that made this more interesting).
Naofumi is an awful main character. He's so passive and unopinionated that he might as well not exist. Touya actually has a personality, although he's totally noped out of having a brain, which means Haruka gets to fulfill one of my least-favorite character types: the bossy, aggressive girl who rules over the other two with an iron fist. This is not a group of friends. This is a dictatorship run by Haruka, because she's making every major decision and many of the minor ones.
Some other minor characters come in and take up the entire last chunk of the book, but I really don't want to read about two girls forced into waitressing in a place where they keep getting groped by the customers.
So as it stands at the end of book one, this isn't doing anything better than its genre peers, and it's doing a few things significantly worse. I'm not going to be following this one. I rate this book Neutral.
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This reads like someone wanted to make an essay about what they didn't like about various isekai stories, and for some reason decided to make it a book instead. It has a few good ideas, but lackluster execution. It gets way too bogged down in ramblings about mostly-irrelevant topics (when they aren't outright unnecessary---the worst of which by far was the "you guys can satisfy your urges as long as I'm not in the room" conversation)
The idea behind the skills was good. Skills are by and large just some system-codified version of "things you could probably learn by working for them," which means cheats like skill stealing, Hero talent, EXP boosting, and so on have all sorts of nasty side effects. Hero, for instance, attracts trouble.
But then you end up with a large, large chunk of the book being talk about skills and how various characters picked their build, which is not exactly the most engaging reading (and I've still read books that made this more interesting).
Naofumi is an awful main character. He's so passive and unopinionated that he might as well not exist. Touya actually has a personality, although he's totally noped out of having a brain, which means Haruka gets to fulfill one of my least-favorite character types: the bossy, aggressive girl who rules over the other two with an iron fist. This is not a group of friends. This is a dictatorship run by Haruka, because she's making every major decision and many of the minor ones.
Some other minor characters come in and take up the entire last chunk of the book, but I really don't want to read about two girls forced into waitressing in a place where they keep getting groped by the customers.
So as it stands at the end of book one, this isn't doing anything better than its genre peers, and it's doing a few things significantly worse. I'm not going to be following this one. I rate this book Neutral.
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March 7, 2022
Too much banter about food - no action
The premise was good and the mechanics for being truck-kun'd to a new world was ok, but it spends an ungodly amount of time talking about food, and how much they miss food, and how much they want tasty food and how much others feel about food. Seriously, at one point the book spends 5 pages explaining how the hard bread sucks and they wished they had better bread. I wish I hadn't spent $7 on this horrible book, but they we are.
This isn't even good on a food-porn level Isekai like Cooking With My Fluffy Friends, where the actual focus is food.
I cannot in good conscience recommend this book to anyone.
The premise was good and the mechanics for being truck-kun'd to a new world was ok, but it spends an ungodly amount of time talking about food, and how much they miss food, and how much they want tasty food and how much others feel about food. Seriously, at one point the book spends 5 pages explaining how the hard bread sucks and they wished they had better bread. I wish I hadn't spent $7 on this horrible book, but they we are.
This isn't even good on a food-porn level Isekai like Cooking With My Fluffy Friends, where the actual focus is food.
I cannot in good conscience recommend this book to anyone.
February 5, 2023
If there was ever a "Side-Tracked" King, I think that this author would be the complete and only winner in the whole entire multiverse...Oh, my God! this guy talks about boar's tusks, about things that are totally irrelevant all of the time...Actions speak louder than words, and this guy must have been paid by the amount of useless and unneeded explanations that he included in the first book of this fantasy-isekai-novel series... Nothing brought from game-knowledge-or-experience are useful or true in another world, especially if there is no game-system... Everything changes, or at least everything should have changed. NO SOY SAUCE, NO MISO, nothing Japanese at all, and yet, the authors try to make other worlds as much as their old worlds, which is irrational, illogical and nonsensical... It's like traveling to Europe and eating American fast food...In other worlds, there are no "same ingredients"/"same foods" because they are "DIFFERENT WORLDS"....It's not "ALTERNATE REALITY FROM EARTH, THEY ARE TOTALLY DIFFERENT WORLDS"...
The two main characters (Haruko and Nao) are encyclopedic knowledge of everything, explain what everything is, what is not, why its not, every time and yet, they have never ever been in this "OTHER NEW WORLD" So, they do not really know anything in this "new place"...
The Demon Lord God takes a class full of students and gives them freedom to choose their skills and abilities, all of the skills and abilities had disadvantages, that the author defines within this first book as "Land Mines" (Skills and Abilities, that are going to blow up at anytime, and are hidden from view, of the isekai-ed students taken to this other world)...
The Land Mines, in my opinion, are the excessive and unneeded explanations about everything that the author gives (without one asking for all that info-dump/Spam) every time the characters talk, think, breathe... Even if the main characters are sleeping, the author is actually explaining spamming the readers with irrelevant information...
The two main characters (Haruko and Nao) are encyclopedic knowledge of everything, explain what everything is, what is not, why its not, every time and yet, they have never ever been in this "OTHER NEW WORLD" So, they do not really know anything in this "new place"...
The Demon Lord God takes a class full of students and gives them freedom to choose their skills and abilities, all of the skills and abilities had disadvantages, that the author defines within this first book as "Land Mines" (Skills and Abilities, that are going to blow up at anytime, and are hidden from view, of the isekai-ed students taken to this other world)...
The Land Mines, in my opinion, are the excessive and unneeded explanations about everything that the author gives (without one asking for all that info-dump/Spam) every time the characters talk, think, breathe... Even if the main characters are sleeping, the author is actually explaining spamming the readers with irrelevant information...
June 3, 2023
The main story drags a bit but can be forgiven if the second volume adds more combat or atrategy. Hard to have any strategy in adding powers since the characters do not know how to improve skills so hard for them to make combo intelligently and so on.
The last two chapters included a side story that made me stick to the second volume as one of the FMCs is pretty smart in dealing with other classmates (even thoufg it does repeat the hatred for the food.
The last two chapters included a side story that made me stick to the second volume as one of the FMCs is pretty smart in dealing with other classmates (even thoufg it does repeat the hatred for the food.
March 1, 2022
Cooking in Another World... with Land Mines.
December 8, 2024
It wasn't exactly what I was expecting. I was expecting them to have actual landmines. But it was still a relatively good isikai. Some of the descriptions were a little long, but it still gets four stars and I will be reading the next volume at least. Not everything can be ascendants of a bookworm. XD
February 16, 2022
Thinking the title was stupid, I avoided reading the story for a few months while it was being translated by j-novel club. But I eventually broke down when I was desperate for something to read and pleasantly surprised. Turns out that the landmines were "traps" provided by the evil god rather than actual landmines (yes, in hindsight it was stupid of me to think that).
The story starts with some game elements / character creation concepts as the students select the skills they will have in the new world, but it is really high-level details and descriptions rather than the nitty gritty and didn't really last long for those who don't like that sort of thing. I believe only one of the main characters actually learned anything or got a skill up in the first volume and while they have status screens, that isn't the point of the story.
If I had to categorize it, I would call this story a slice of life (think 300 Years Killing Slimes) of teenagers trying to survive in a foreign land without cheat skills. They do seem to have a little too much success as adventurers however, compared to how much they struggled at first.
The story starts with some game elements / character creation concepts as the students select the skills they will have in the new world, but it is really high-level details and descriptions rather than the nitty gritty and didn't really last long for those who don't like that sort of thing. I believe only one of the main characters actually learned anything or got a skill up in the first volume and while they have status screens, that isn't the point of the story.
If I had to categorize it, I would call this story a slice of life (think 300 Years Killing Slimes) of teenagers trying to survive in a foreign land without cheat skills. They do seem to have a little too much success as adventurers however, compared to how much they struggled at first.
February 9, 2022
The titles in light novels are ridiculous, but this one is really not what I expected. Not in a bad way, but I don't get why they went with a name that resolved itself after the prologue.
Anyway, the book itself was good enough. It tries to be an "isekai" with gritty realism. Unfortunately, it strikes an odd balance while attempting to do that, making the whole book leave an odd feeling about the world. All that would still get a better rating, however the three main characters are flat. They're not bad characters or anything, just always the same.
Still, griping aside, I did read the whole book as each part came out on J-Novel club and the translation itself was easy to read.
Anyway, the book itself was good enough. It tries to be an "isekai" with gritty realism. Unfortunately, it strikes an odd balance while attempting to do that, making the whole book leave an odd feeling about the world. All that would still get a better rating, however the three main characters are flat. They're not bad characters or anything, just always the same.
Still, griping aside, I did read the whole book as each part came out on J-Novel club and the translation itself was easy to read.
May 28, 2022
There are no land mines involved in this story. I thought it would be a silly story involving literal landmines, along the lines of such stories as Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon, Buck Naked in Another World, The Invincible Shovel, The Extraordinary, the Ordinary, and SOAP! and so on. Surprise: it's not. It's not great, but it's not bad either. It's actually pretty decent as far as isekai go.
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