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Release that Witch
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Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.Chen Yan travels between worlds, ending up becoming an honorable prince in a medieval fantasy world. Yet this world was not quite as simple as he thought. Witches with magical powers abound, and fearsome wars between churches and kingdoms rage throughout the land.
Roland, a prince regarded as hopeless by his own father and assigned to the worst fief, spends his time developing a poor and backward town into a strong and modern city, while fighting against his siblings for the throne and absolute control over the kingdom. Join Roland as he befriends and allies with witches and, through fighting and even farming, pushes back invaders coming from the realm of evil.
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One entry per lineFang Kai Nage Nuwu
Fangkai Nage Nuwu
Fàng kāi nàgè nǚwū
RTW
ปล่อยแม่มดคนนั้นซะ
放开那个女巫
마녀 사용설명서
Fangkai Nage Nuwu
Fàng kāi nàgè nǚwū
RTW
ปล่อยแม่มดคนนั้นซะ
放开那个女巫
마녀 사용설명서
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Sevens (22)
Maoyuu Maou Yuusha (19)
Ascendance of a Bookworm (19)
Common Sense of a Duke’s Daughter (17)
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- Kingdom Building / Territory Management
- My novels
- ALLCN+
- Female Lead Stronger than Male lead
- Kingdom / Sect / World Building
Date | Group | Release |
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09/25/17 | Seki – CA translations | c378 |
08/28/17 | Seki – CA translations | c377 |
08/27/17 | Seki – CA translations | c376 |
08/25/17 | Seki – CA translations | c375 |
08/23/17 | Seki – CA translations | c374 |
08/22/17 | Seki – CA translations | c373 |
08/20/17 | Seki – CA translations | c372 |
08/20/17 | Seki – CA translations | c371 |
08/18/17 | Seki – CA translations | c370 |
08/17/17 | Seki – CA translations | c369 |
08/16/17 | Seki – CA translations | c368 |
08/15/17 | Seki – CA translations | c367 |
08/14/17 | Seki – CA translations | c366 |
08/13/17 | Seki – CA translations | c365 |
08/12/17 | Seki – CA translations | c364 |
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There really isn't much that truly stands out. If you look at it from a kingdom building genre, it's dry and not remarkably interesting, but it definitely beats the ridiculous JP trope of 'Mayonnaise introduced to medieval fantasy, everyone falls head over heels'. The reason why it's actually dry is mostly because of the lack of the 'struggle' thus far.
Do you know how freaking hard it was to break the feudalism government? It took more than 600 years when it flourished in Europe. The entire idea of overthrowing the king-nobles-knights can be something grand, but when the MC starts to introduce new technology over and over again which makes light of the whole era, it immediately becomes weak as a story.
Now, the 'struggle' section comes in the form of witches and the political wars between the church-roland's family. The witches are somewhat out there as a struggle for their freedom from religion and politics, but Roland pretty much takes that struggle out by force. The witches didn't achieve their freedom with their own hands, because Roland handed them their freedom.
Based on these two alone, the MC has gone pretty close to become OP. It is convenient for him to constantly discover new witches with new powers to invent new upgrades. It starts to be a given that Roland will somehow succeed in defeating all his opponents through modern warfare weapons.
There's not much about achieving an egalitarian society, but more of a self-fulfillment state-owned authoritarian/monarchy play dabbling in socialism. I say monarchy, because it seems like Roland wants an heir.
There is no revolution to see here, where the people cast out their serf status because they had the courage to do so, it is handed down by MC. Is it really that interesting to read that? Roland and his witches 'cure' the crowd from a magic plague, and they adulate him to the skies. It's all MC and about his witches again handing out solutions on a regular basis! This is absolutely boring me to tears and it goes on for 200+ chapters before I finally gave up and dropped the series.
Then about the wars. Honestly, what's the point? When you bring up the guns, I don't see ANY way how it's possible for his enemies to win. Guns literally changed warfare to make medieval swords and sticks pointless. He even has bunkers for his armies to use, for crying out loud. It's not even a delay or avoid melee fights strategy in the 1700s, it's bunkers from the 19-20th century. For the other parties to win, they either have to evolve to something ridiculous or use an overwhelming number of men to defeat Roland.
Speaking of which, I think I kind of lost it when witches upgrade their abilities. That's pretty much hitting some of the Mary Sue factor, but the main heroine is pushing it too much. She is an absolute genius that finished studying years of high school material in months, then invent new designs like steve jobs in sheer moments, while upgrading her magic powers non-stop and is a badass too. Did I mention she's really pretty?
Despite all the things that plague the series, it is ultimately a package that is better than the individual parts. At best I can say that it's an enjoyable read for many people because it has the overall package, at its worst it's fast food WN that is way overrated because it's appearing for the first time, especially as a Chinese WN.
Edit: For those of you who have already read this WN, I would suggest you to youtube "maoyuu speech" and compare between the (fake) scholar vs Anna. See the differences in storytelling and characters' depth.
Also, Maoyuu started off from a webnovel, so don't think that there wasn't a precedent before Release That Witch.
Yes, he did create guns and cannons, but he completely monopolizes the technology. How could other people have guns too. He even creates a 152mm Howitzer. During wars, he killed all of his enemies regardless of their social standing. Up till c372, no one can fight his armies back, well some of his soldiers did get injured because of the "pills" that is distributed by the church. He even creates air-balloon and drop bombs to his enemies. Border Town has become the richest city in the country under his rules so it's just natural for him to have the strongest army.
This statement makes me feel like this guy just read 5 chapters and decided to write a review. Currently, there are witches who are being used by the church to carry out dirty works, the church is collecting homeless little girls where the normal ones will be their devoted believers while the witches are being killed to extract their power to create God Punishment Army. From here, it's a heavy spoiler so proceed with caution
400 years ago, witches are being looked up as higher beings while normal humans are basically being called "mortals". The witches have one goal; to defeat the demons. Unfortunately, the demons are very powerful so a witch named Akaris decided to use witch as tools instead of warriors to amass an army that is capable of defeating the demons. Akaris is literally the god of the church but only the popes know this. With Akaris's influence, witches are being use as a disposable tool to make normal humans become strong. This is because there are witches whose power is deem as "non-offensive" so even if they have 1000 witches, there are like only 200 how can fight so with extracting their power, all of them will have the same power that is superhuman strength. That's all.
He wants to create a healthcare but unable to do it because he has 0 knowledge about medicine.
He creates an army and of course there're regiment, battalion, company, platoon and squad. But he doesn't know the exact number of each unit should have.
He wants to write periodic table but he can't remember all of the elements.
And he even make mistakes to the point he almost dies.
Strong Points:
* Interesting premise.
* Good beginning of the story, but looses steam around Chapter 100 or so.
* Writing is generally good.
* Play of politics is well depicted.
Weakness:
* Author tries to be too smart, and dumps in scientific terms at random. He tries to depict manufacturing process in detail, but it just becomes tiresome to read all the pointless pseudoscience.
* MC must have an IQ of 3000000000 bazillion. In his previous life he just had a desk job, and in this new life he is Chemist, Civil Engineer, Mechanical Enginner and a Great General, all in one.
* Everyone on MC's side has a IQ of 200000 Million. Despite the fact that they are barely literate, MC's subordinates are grasping the knowledge that usually takes 10 years in mere 2 months!
Strange Things:
* Only women can do magic. Feminist much?
* MC is kick-starting mankind progress. What took 2000 years, MC is doing it in 6 months.
Mechanical engineer MC reincarnates as a disregarded prince in a medieval fantasy world. After an encounter with a witch, he begins using their powers to help accelerate the development of his territory from nothing, fight off threats both human and otherwise, and prepare for an ancient doomsday prophecy. There's kingdom building, army building, tech development (firearms, explosives, steel, etc), war, slice-of-life. Pros:
- Great writing. Feels like a Japanese WN, almost can't believe it's a Chinese WN. There's little of the repetitive/hand-wavy/edgelord writing that plagues Xianxia stories. Reaction chapters are enjoyable and help with the world building, told from the perspective of side/minor characters rather than through infodumps or used as filler. Author seems to have the plot planned out so far.
- Likable MC, memorable side characters. Side characters get screen time, reappearances, development. Cast is fairly large and expanding, so your favorite side/minor character (s) may not get as many appearances as you'd like. So refreshing compared to usual Xianxia stories.
- There's basic science involved so you might learn something (the comments are sometimes interesting and not just pure cancer). Having something grounded in reality really adds to the enjoyment (like Seiun wo Kakeru).
- Regular translator updates (QI). Source updates daily (used to be twice a day, now once).
- Contrary to my expectations (because of the science and whatnot), is easily read with GT. Get the Perapera Chinese add-on for Firefox if you haven't already. Or read it on LNMTL. Cons:
- Translation quality (Volare) drops pretty quick. First chapter is great at roping you in, but a few chapters in you'll start noticing the errors. Typos, poor grammar, engrish/MTL-sounding sentences, odd word choices (eg: God's Stone of Punishment/Retaliation), occasional messed up names and translation inaccuracies. Still very readable and vastly preferable to MTL, with the caveat you may find the process slightly irritating.
Update: Both QI & Seki's versions are machine translations. QI = quick and dirty (worse than Volare's), whilst Seki is slow but reads better. Recommendation:
If you liked "Gate: Thus The JSDF Fought There" for its modern day warfare trouncing medieval tech theme, you'll probably like this. Read up to chapter 900 with zero regrets so far. Edit: triggerk has an interesting review, but perspective readers be warned that there are many points that are flat out wrong.
>> Roland was a mechanical engineer before, but apparently he knows chemistry, biology, the education system, war tactics, shipbuilding, and who knows what else. Basic knowledge is fine. What this guy has is unacceptable, however.
The war tactics aren't strange as he's a huge military nerd. They're not complex to the point of implausibility either. The theory/construction of the concrete bathtub river boats is relatively simple, they tested models beforehand and there's no stuff like air compartments etc like modern boats. The steel version's design uses the same basic theory as the concrete ones. I'm not sure what you find so unbelievable about Roland's education system. IIRC they're only teaching basic literacy (maybe basic math? don't remember), not even at the level of modern primary school curricula. Only the witches get a more specialized education with Scroll teaching. It's not till much later on he starts getting the alchemists to start teaching chemistry classes to help fill the chemist deficiency.
>> Hey, I'm going to write a chemistry textbook telling you every formula in the world. By the way I'm going to jot down a 500 page manual on how2biology.
It's basic chemistry/etc according to whatever he still remembers from school/life. They're exercise book sized at best, not several hundred pages, why would you even assume that? I guess you could bloat them with exercises for the students. He struggled to fill the intermediate level chem book (and gave up). As for biology (human health), it probably has complex revolutionary content like: organ locations/functions, microorganisms exist, basic first aid, wash your hands, why you shouldn't sh*t in the street, etc.
>> I'll add in a physics course for free.
He's a mechanical engineer, I should bloody hope so.
>> Some defend this, but there's literally nobody who can do this. (...) Can they list the periodic table in its entirety 20 years after they've long forgotten their high school chemistry class?
... Roland literally couldn't either, the periodic table in his chem book is full of blank spaces. A perceptive reader would use this as a reference to extrapolate how the content in his other textbooks might appear. I don't know why people keep getting the impression that he's writing 1:1 copies of his prior textbooks.
>> And I'm going to rewrite an entire play or three, by memory, perfectly.
Nowhere does it mention they're perfect recreations. Roland writes the basic outline (the translation makes it sound as if he wrote it all himself) with help from past life knowledge plagiarism whilst Scroll does most of the heavy lifting. Helps with having many plays to reference with her memory power. Cinderella & Chicken Calls At Midnight are primary school plays (1 western, 1 chinese), whilst for A Witch's Diary Scroll can draw from personal experience. He comments the plays aren't even that good, just that the people have nothing to compare them to. Not that crazy when you remember the author is a working engineer writing RtW as a hobby.
>> Did I mention I'm a master plumber, farmer, and blacksmith?
He has people that he delegates those tasks to, and witches to skip years of development work. He was never a blacksmithing expert, not sure how you got this idea. Blacksmithing is one of the first things he makes redundant. Farming he doesn't micro-manage, other than some common sense knowledge (use fertilizer, crop rotation) he's left it all up to the farmers themselves to figure out best practices and City Hall to help spread that info. As far as plumbing goes, it's not that big a leap with Anna/Soraya/Hummingbird. Trial and error for plumbing isn't terribly interesting though, which is why for many similar technological developments (see: Nitrogen extraction) the author doesn't over elaborate on the process and focuses more instead on the results.
>> Hell, have some music theory too, because I'm a mechanical engineer who took some GE classes and we can all do that while governing an entire city as a full-time job.
Recreating a marching song isn't impossible. Helping Echo spitball music ideas through conversation and singing some Earth songs in his downtime is well within reason. You're also giving Echo too little credit, she can mimic and project a person's voice after hearing it once and she has musical training. A chapter describing the fumbling about wouldn't work well in a written format though.
>> Release that Witch is a power fantasy for teenage and young adult men.
Don't disagree, RtW doesn't pretend to be otherwise. The first battle against Duke Ryans' forces should've clued you in. There are people who want the story to turn into tragedy, or to have the MC struggle, but the story has never been about that. It's a quick, light read with regular updates.
>> Only in foreign webnovels do protagonists get a pass for being overpowered, which is called bad writing anywhere else.
It's what their audience wants. Believe it or not, many people actually enjoy OP MCs. And as far as OP MCs go, Roland wouldn't even crack the top 100.
>> Even Superman has his Kryponite, whether it's a rock or vulnerable friends he must care for. Millions are enthralled by something like Game of Thrones because the characters are human.
Comparing Roland to Superman? lol, that's probably the worst analogy you could've made. One of Roland's main appeals is that he's a regular human in a fantasy world. Honestly if you have to go so far as to compare RtW with actual professional published works with years/months between releases to take it down, that says a lot about its quality. If you think it's possible to write Game of Thrones as a daily webnovel though, I've got a bridge to sell you.
devil/demon hints of secrets i.e. hacala's mistaken idea on ancient text, & size of kingdom vs. wider world - (the map by picture witch & flying witch)
until later, one requited love, one unrequited love shown so far. The question of "would you marry a witch" answer. The inclusion of fertility as an issue is really unneeded in the story as well...
During the story at least one person hints at "how could he know all these things", from their perspective he's just inventing or all-knowing, though he does blame it on the alchemist workshop saying it's their invention. However... this guy knows way way way more than he rightfully should even as a modern person, in both ancient developments of technology, not just their premise, but actually how to make them. To include a fairly advanced view of physics, biology, chemistry, mechanics, politics, aristocracy (noble version of politics). Granted most of the advancements are cheated by magic development to skip into industrial revolution items...
I say he is a witch (warlock) himself, by way of possession.. though they say multiple times he's possibly influenced by the devil (multiple sources, including his minister), which is a bit funny since he possesses the former body of the prince. The only problem with this is that the one witch that can see magical powers in others directly never says anything about him having powers, so.. damn.. at least his sister realizes, without even meeting him that he's not the real prince.
With the constant reminder of fertility coming up, I have to imagine that's either just a very poor 'heartstring' attempt by author or something else for deus ex to fix later. OR!!! he's a warlock (witch) himself, but that's probably me trying to make him OP, and make sense of his current OP-knowledge, while also shipping him and the fire witch haha.
The MC needs weapon to deal with the threat of Demons, and humanity need new weapon as well. It's not a peaceful world. 2. Why no-one thinks to use witch's power before MC arrive?
They did. There are at least three ways to use the witch's power, and the power is widely use long time ago. This novel has more than 300 chapters already and I can hardly say the author have finished half of it. 3. One of his sister already realized MC acted like a different person and sent a witch to investigate.
1) The first signs of the zenith are throwaway characters. Mainly witches that magically appear to solve a conundrum and then magically disappear to not be mentioned ever again, happens rather often.
2) The following point was kingdom building, which was one of the main appeal points of RtW. The author confuses videogame logic with society rules, once a town is conquered only a minimal force is left but problems never arise again, no rebellions, no outbreaks, no anything. Like how in a videogame once a city is conquered that territory is conquered forever. Once the big project of development starts in the original town, which becomes a city by then, sees the incoming of thousands of immigrants but the protagonist never bothers to develop hospitals and textile industries, for all we know the witches work in mettalurgy, construction and the chemical industries and only 2 witches operate a very rudimentary hospital and a single witch that creates armor is responsible for thousands of soldiers. Eco-friendly development is not even a thought, in this industrial fantasy revolution manufacturing industries are greatly improved but Roland seems to forget how toxic are their waste.
3) The introduction of a wuxia suplot, the author seems to have finished the original ideas at this point, without a proper explanation, the mc's gains access to a dream world where he acquires magical powers!