This review is for True Martial World , a digital "light novella" composed by Tadanori Kurashita, with illustrations from Poyoyon Rock. The narrative was released in the Japanese and English in 2014, the English translation resulting from a competition hosted by Conyac and Impress QuickBooks.
Imagine a future where you are able to read a novel on your mobile phone! The future is now apparently, and also True Martial World receives the distinction of being the first story I have read in this format. For a complete novel I believe I'll still prefer my Kindle when reading sensibly, but a shorter novella like True Martial World functions all right for quick bursts of reading while on break at work, etc.. It's difficult to say a lot about a story as brief as this without giving away things, but the basic assumption is that the 1st-person protagonist is a young man whose work entails searching through electronic news articles to find the next "big thing" and then buying or selling stock so. His assistant in all this is an A.I. hologram called Alice, and also the battle of the narrative arises when Alice starts to behave in somewhat questionable manners. It's a pretty basic premise with straightforward characters, and the story plays out at a straightforward yet leisurely fashion, taking its time to delve into all the intricacies of their protagonist's work and daily agenda. Chaotic sword god To be honest, it is not a particularly exciting or engaging story. There are a number of interesting observations on the protagonist's role, but the character of Alice's participation in the narrative being a puzzle keeps the narrative from focusing much on her or the role of A.I. in the near-future generally. In other words, not much in the means of sci-fi with this narrative, and certainly not with a level of characterization which could be compared to something similar to the arcade Time of Eve. On top of all this, once the story finally starts to build up steam--it's already over. Perhaps this can simply be attributed to the item being a novella, and as such the aims of this story are considerably more focused than what would be expected of a full book. Therefore, if you're in the mood to get a brief snapshot of a sci-fi setting through a work-focused slice-of-life kind of storyline, I would say True Martial World is worth picking up, thinking about its low asking price and overall quality translation. (I will see however, that in my telephone at least, most of em dashes appeared as question marks with this particular story. Alice's Tale is a thing different in the very least, and some could find it a nice diversion, even along with both of the other names available from Impress QuickBooks.
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