The Death Mage Who Doesn’t Want a Fourth Time

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Amamiya Hiroto is unlucky. His life consisted of misfortune after misfortune, culminating in an unlucky death during an incident on a school boat trip, trying to save a girl he barely knew. After death, he met a god of reincarnation who requested that the hundred or so dead passengers—one of them being the girl he tried in vain to save—be reincarnated into another world.

Yet a series of unfortunate events forced Hiroto to reincarnate with even less luck than before, starting with nothing but a tremendous amount of Mana. His second life, far worse than his first, came to a cruel end.

However, upon meeting the god a second time, he was informed that there would be yet another reincarnation—one that had already been set in motion and could not be stopped. Not wanting Hiroto to live long, the god cursed him before he was reborn in the hopes that he would either die quickly or commit su*cide.

Hiroto was reborn once more as a half-Vampire, half-Dark Elf. A Dhampir. Not wanting a fourth life, he is determined to live this third life with the only things remaining from his previous lives—death-attribute magic and his enormous Mana pool.

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TDM
The Death Attribute Mage Doesn't Want A Fourth Time
The Death Mage (LN)
Yondome wa Iyana Shi Zokusei Majutsushi
四度目は嫌な死属性魔術師
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cdavisqc
cdavisqc rated it
December 30, 2021
Status: c266
First off: thank you, translator! You're doing a fantastic job!

After my first read through, I would have given this a 3 star rating. Usually I think about the stories on an individual basis, but after reading a few other isekais ad reading this story again from the beginning I ended up being committed to continuing to read this. Our MC may seem like a typical goodie two-shoes, but as you pay attention to his thoughts and actions you'll find he's not. He's crazy, but also tries to make decisions that... more>> won't ?disappoint? his loved ones and cause trouble for himself in the future... of course his intentions to reduce future troubles with the other reincarnators fails marvelously. Normally I don't like harems or ecchi, and admittedly there are stereotype moments I don't appreciate, but when meshed into the overall story and based on the values of the world he fell into I ended up giving it a pass. This work is calk fall of hilarious misunderstandings, twists and turns. I give this a 5 star with the understanding that this is a wildly unrealistic story (the vengeful part does feel realistic as I'm sure most of us are capable of holding grudges). If you want a story that makes sense, look elsewhere. If you want a story with easily hate -able antagonists, multiple races, personalities and various cultural values, game like leveling systems, some food elements, lots of complicated world and plot development, overpowered characters, crazy people and lots and lots of wacky 'WTF just happened?! LOL' moments -- you're here. <<less
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jjerro
jjerro rated it
September 19, 2021
Status: c259
Ch. 259.

The recent story become more refined, including the characters, more reasonable, even the comedy are better, not overwhelming like before so it doesn't get boring fast. Up to now, it's a good read. Update c177

The story become bit more interesting even though there are some typical repetitive comedy lines, still tolerable, well that's what people call fan service perhaps?. But there are still some unnecessary information being repeatedly cast into every few chapters such as transmigration system and how it works or skills that they only plan to use but not being used at that time but then explained again at the time of usage or in their leisure conversation time at the later chapter. Well, maybe for the word count sake. Btw, MC tendency for other people muscles is a bit disgusting tbh. Update:c.140.

At this point, I couldn't help but think that it's a novel about japanese cuisines and monster harem perhaps, since recently, two third of a chapter only about remake of japanese cuisine, complete with ingredients, processing and how it tastes, and of course monster harem talking about the taste of the cuisine and their lord's (?). Well, even if it took two thirds, most of it are unrelated to the current plot so it's okay to just skim through the chapter I guess. Latest read c. 130. Rate 6/10.

Not bad, description of each power, magic, and race & character are kind of detailed, even if the schemes were mostly only one or two layers, it's still enough of enjoyment. Fighting, interaction between character, development & progress of each char, including sides stories are interesting to read. More importantly, the translator are doing very great job, I appreciate that.

but the filler uwah uwah tiddies in heat parts that thrown across entire story and sometimes takes a third of the chapter makes the story not less interesting but kind of annoying. It's understandable if those overreact parts were for light comedy, but still, done in repeatedly way makes it more disgusting less than comedic.

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Then again, Rodcorte which supposed to be an entity that exist for eternity known as specialist in transmigration, but making several fatal mistakes in row including s*upid follow-up no matter how I look at it. He's like teenager with planet-sized ego or a new employee in training, where did experiences from his long years in dealing with system go? I can't believe an entity like him to not have wisdom or some knowledge for overlooking the real problem. One or two mistakes are understandable, but then repeatedly react in such impulsive way are incomprehensible. He can be regarded as specialist developer/programmer that supposed to rely much on logical thinking than feel when it's coming to fixing bug, however, the hole in the curses, mistakes during distributing cheats, accidentally forgeting important rule & information, reaction when repairing the damages plus unreasonable follow-up doesn't makes any sense for a specialist. At least he is supposed to use his brain and not impulse, but it's more like

"oh, yeah there was a goat I sent on a whim before to neighborhood garden, it supposed to eat the orchad only but oh it's eating all the plants there, hmm, the goat can eat all grass? Why it doesn't understand my intention? Oh right, I forgot to mention my goal to the goat. Well, Whatever but that goat is no good, let's send another goat to eat that first goat to clear the problem, make sure the neighbor doesn't know anything" Wtf? This god described as "indifference" being whatever the world inhabitants are doing, as long as they doesn't mess up his transmigration system, so what in the world is happening when he decided to send violators to develop another world in the first place, with one that gifted "empty frames" Which clearly has unlimited potential, and the other one with "Unlimited development"? No matter what kind of POV one use to see it, those are trouble. Then, Now he care? Without permission, in such secrecy, then decided to destroy one of them and ended up damaging his own system? Didn't he just making enemies and destroying his own system?

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Rodcorte is s*upid beyond help, unlike him, other gods are quite able to use their brain despite their personality and motives such as Alda, Furan, Nineroad, and others that already making appearance, oh, except that Lizard dragon god who fled from marshland to death continent, he's somehow s*upid. Since the s*upid are few compared to the brainer, let's hang on for a while.

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Another annoying thing (up to the current chapter) is all the last boss always agitated and unable to properly think and act when facing MC, no matter how long they lived, how much experiences, how many times they face life and death battles. They'll somehow becoming rash in decision, and I can say agitated to be defeated.

There's MC personality that I thought supposed to develop based on his dark experiences across 3 different life but somehow doesn't seems to affect him much, but I'll leave it at that, maybe it'll change since I only read 130 chapters currently.
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Raven Frostwing
Raven Frostwing rated it
March 20, 2021
Status: --
Now I have to mention that when one is reading this story they must take into consideration the following things:

  1. This isn't your usual run the mill isekai revenge story, he doesn't find it necessary to commit useless violence unless its needed
  2. The story is obsessively slow because it is building a world for the characters to live in, its not like other isekai worlds which first establish the characters then the world no if you were looking for instant OPness then prepare to be disappointed
  3. This story will focus on unnecessary stuff such as food and other things which is okay because each of these characters have things to do outside just fighting and being glorious in battle. It will focus on character's development as people, as individuals. This is a point I am going to stress a lot on because I see many people complain how there is too much food p*rn and other stuff going on but I mean if none of these characters especially Vandalieu who was set up as a boy who never ate any of these things and was happy when he first ate what he would call high class pork from a Orc had traits and hobbies this will be a very stale if not boring story. It is not supposed to have cardboard cutouts for characters but real living people who have hopes and dreams and other stuff. Its these small unnecessary details which make you understand these characters even more.
I see ch.40, ch.51 people reviewing this novel as 1 -2 stars but one really needs to read everything from the bottom and slowly rise into what they expect. This novel goes in 3 stages, Stage 1. Peaceful days filled with hiccups here and there Stage 2. Building up of the eventual fight Stage 3. Climax it doesn't just immediately begins fights but it builds... more>> up to it. And the world building. My god the world building is beautiful, the translation is beautiful too. I also see people having problems with him having a harem but he is not dense as hell, he knows very well that these women who genuinely love him and also knows that might change as he grows older and rather has a tough time. Potential candidates sure but that might change for now he is just focusing on growing up and being the best he can. To be honest it doesn't focus on harems that much and focuses more on his interactions with the world around him and it keeps on giving him stuff to interact with. <<less
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N0vel
N0vel rated it
January 11, 2021
Status: v10characters part1
Great novel. I feel like I've been reading it for a long time (the story really went far) yet it's still very interesting to read. I've dropped reading several other isekai's due to s*upid, boring or downgraded storytelling. But this novel didn't downgrade at all.

Pros:

relatively new plot for an isekai;

... more>> overpowered protagonist (if you like it) ;

lots of characters with their own story;

lots of chapters, very detailed world.

Cons:

overpowered protagonist (if you don't like it)

More and more characters as the story goes, less time for each, with current volume frequency you can start to forget who is who.

Some things are rather boring, even skipped a few of them: chapters about bravers, food chapters, magical girls. <<less
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wanko soba
wanko soba rated it
November 6, 2020
Status: c205
It's pretty good. But it got bad about halfway through. It hurts me to read 20 chapters of dialogue, followed by a minor fight, followed by more dialogue. The harem aspect is just terrible, and everyone kinda just treats him like a child, which he technically is, physically.
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Deadric_King47
Deadric_King47 rated it
March 28, 2020
Status: c217
An extremely enjoyable read. It gave me the feeling that only few novel had ever managed to do so. The feeling that it's great to be alive in this world to experience certain things in life, and that includes reading good books. My ratings out of five:

Story- 4.5

Translation- 4 (just small errors that doesn't break the immersion at all. A huge thumbs up to Yoshi for doing an excellent job)

... more>> Characters- 4 (Even minor characters doesn't feel one dimensional)

So what I want to say to those who haven't read it yet is...

JUST READ THE DAMN BOOK ALREADY!! <<less
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Bigvoii
Bigvoii rated it
March 25, 2020
Status: c180
I had to stop reading, I just couldn't take it anymore. The story starts off as an interesting adventure/revenge plot but slowly becomes a kingdom building/conquering story. Usually that's a normal transition but the story spends so much time on the world kingdom building but it isn't even that great as I've seen far better. What really pushed me off was the fact that the story started focusing more on the side characters which is usually good but in this story there are just way too many characters to even... more>> keep track, it even got to the point where I had to use the wiki to remember who was being talked about (and that has almost never happened in all my time of reading). Another gripe is the main characters alignment is shown as vengeful and conniving to avenge his mother, but then he becomes more of a chaotic good aligned character and starts making weird decision a that don't really make sense or he just does stuff because he was emotional (this guy is like 40 yrs old at this point) which doesn't even make sense. You can also tell the author deliberately made the character a child for the majority of time so he can avoid having to write interactions with the weirdly aggressive cast. On top of that I even think that the main character is a cuck
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there is literally a point in the story where one of his harem members says they will f*ck another guy and get pregnant because the MC wouldn't do it, and then she says her heart will always belong to him or so sh*t like that, and on top of that she want him to love the child like it was his own (you can tell the child will eventually fall in love with her adoptive father too)

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but whatever I guess.
all in all I can see why some people like the story but it wasn't for me and was really going slower and slower
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like I don't even know how the story could progress at this point, I mean he gets so strong that even most gods can't even kill him and yet he still acts like a manchild

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p.s The best parts of the story are the side stories because the don't focus on the lackluster MC and instead in the more interesting enemies of the mc <<less
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luisnestea
luisnestea rated it
December 8, 2019
Status: c180
The first time I starter reading this I dropped it as the beginning appears to be a typical japanese novel, where the MC is subjected to a ridiculous disadvanteous bulling but ends up finding its own equaly ridiculous cheat. It, however, becomes a fairly convincing kingdom-building latter on.

Characters are decent as they each posseess its own unique trait or perk which makes them likeable. The antagonist aren`t tho, they are either plain evil or plain s*upid... more>>
Spoiler

the hero can slaughter a different intelligent race all the way to the children and still believe he is in the right, Alda carries on his plan to extint millions of life despite the disagreement of other 4 great gods

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The setting is quite typical; videogame-like status, elemental magic etc... but since it is consistent and well organiced I don´t consider it a flaw in this series, the fact tha the MC is not invincible for having large mana pool is also apreciated. <<less
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Nelico
Nelico
October 22, 2019
Status: side story 29
If you like twised protagonists or excessive world building, don't mind a slow start and a giant harem of devout devotees, and can wait for (suprisingly long) chapters this series is for you.

What made me like this series is neither the characters, nor the protagonist. It's the world building where this series seriously starts to shine. Sure, the story can be pretty cliché. The protagonist being totally OP and not really noticing can be a bit annoying, and the "villains" feel like the saturday morning kind, but here everything kinda... more>> fits together.

Protagonist Van is a total wreck. The two lives he remembers were pretty bad, then he gets his first "taste" of family only to get it taken from him.
Add to it cup of unjust racism and a few curses given to him by a god that effed up big time. Should turn into a tragic revenge story, no? Wrong, it turned into a (more or less) heartwarming story about a necromancer and his friends creating their own place in the world while trying to find a way to ressurect his beloved mother.

The author is prone to make Vans harem grow to giant proportions, and it feels like he will crack the three digits before even hitting puberty. But that's about the only thing I don't like about this series.

The reader is getting glimpses of the second world, where things start to pedal out of control after Vans appearance and death. As well as the lives of Van and his merry band of (not so) undead misfits.
Spoiler

But the real conflict and the real antagonist might still be way off. Alda and Rod don't really feel dangerous anymore, damn Rod even turned into comedy relief.
My bet's on Amemiya turning into Bellwood only to get himself used by his buddy, the obviously evil guy. Maybe even Rod and Alda getting played by the death fanatic wirepuller.

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terrythor465
terrythor465 rated it
October 18, 2019
Status: ss 29
It's ok. That's it. It's ok.

It's not a 5 star novel. World building is great and you get a lot of information about the ideals of the world. Characters are also great with many getting lots of development.

It's the plot that drags it down a lot. It's a slow revenge story. In fact it's not really mentioned too much nor touched upon. If it comes up then it shoots to the front and then thrown back into the back burner.

It reads mostly like a slice of life story. It's peaceful.... more>> There are moments of war and battles but they appear every once in a while. This really slows the story down as well.

It's also the MC that boggles this story down as well. He lived through two lives of pretty much hell. Now I can't think of a reason how he can actually remain super nice to anyone after being killed by the other reincarnated people. It's a wonder how his personality remained so good. You would expect him to be more cautious or suspicious of people but you don't see this trait at all.

Good guys and bad guys are clearly defined in this story so a backstabbing character probably won't appear on the MC's side.

To sum my thoughts on the story. Great subplot, but extreme mediocre main plot. <<less
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ArcticCat
ArcticCat
October 18, 2019
Status: c7
Everything falls apart at chapter 7. He goes from Wanting revenge on his past killers and killing the people that killed and tortured his mother, to forgiveness and petty practical joke revenge on the people that KILLED his f*cking mother for gods sake. The developmental change from chapter 6 to 7 gave me whiplash equivalent to a high end collision. The author removes the only redeeming and interesting part of the story, revenge. Now we only have a generic harem novel you see 10 versions of every anime season. It... more>> started so well. Don't be fooled by the interesting tags.

P.s why does the author think brutally mu*dering poor farmers that became bandits out of necessity is morally ok, but killing the mu*derer of your mother is not??? <<less
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Acronym
Acronym
September 9, 2019
Status: c200
It's a good story, one that I actually find refreshing among the whole othere generes around and is quite good even in it's own genere.

Spoiler alert!

The ideea is about a revengful MC, however he is not the kind of pure instinctual killer. He acts on reason, still has a sentimental part to him, however he's not afraid of killing his enemies indiferently if their circumstances where justified or not.

MC tries to make a better world for him and his companions while killing those those that try to interfere too much... more>> (Heinz).

Also MC's character development is done quite good and his relationships with the others are portrayed good enough to give you an understanding about his thinking and how others view him.

Also it has a grain of comedy to it that is welcomed at the beginnning to was the dark scenes and mood a bit. <<less
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hk
hk rated it
August 26, 2019
Status: --
I didn't read this completely. I was in the bit where the he delves into that first dungeon where the undead welcome him. I think my main issue is the MC has a fantastic backstory which makes me want to root for him and see the fake hero get his retribution. Idk if he ever gets it tbh. But the next thing to do after that should have been to provide some defiance of the MC towards the world and surpassing some expectations. What we have is a broken MC... more>> who is really aimless and gives retribution to no one. He almost has no personality and no redeeming qualities that I really saw. He saved some ghost so far but it didn't really show kindness. I read a bland Wuxia that did that better. <<less
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Deadmanbones
Deadmanbones rated it
January 8, 2019
Status: c182
I just want to say this is a beautiful novel.

The character and world development is done beautifully, and I always wait impatiently to read the next chapter as it is translated. The only thing that can get a little annoying in the novel is that there are a lot of characters and sometimes you end up wondering "who was that again?" but that is only for the more minor characters.
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mario1994
mario1994
October 12, 2018
Status: c174
Its a good read.. till MC turns in overpowered God... There is gore. There is violance.. etc. Etc. All adult and mature material.. at some point MC gets too good. Kills Gods but is still kind. Everything he does turns to be good or a success. Gets Harem but does nothing sexual.. after 174 chapters. Only 174 chapters which were super long. Many times there was too much useless information or too little. Fights gets boring if you know who will win.. Mc`s allies never die.. completly. So there is... more>> no tension. At some point its a big filler.. I hope that after being adult at 13 he will do something adult, mature like and sexual.. with his expanding harem.. but most likely it will be kids friendly version for japaneese readers which can see kiddy hentai but cannot write obscene things <<less
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IsferV
IsferV rated it
August 6, 2018
Status: c169
First of all you need to need enough to see the character reach a point where hes at least used to the world hes in this time, before giving up or making your opinion. It is extremely well translated, and written I have to personally say this is the most unique character I read threw a lot of these type storylines and one of my personally fav. Over all others the character changes, grows, is develops. Beats LMS, ARK, LDM, leveled up into a parasite, on par with goblin... more>> slayer, magic word sorry got to bite my words a bit, but I loved this one a lot. <<less
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mutsutakashi
mutsutakashi
July 29, 2018
Status: --
After reading 30+ chapters I must say that I waste my time reading this series.

MC is good for about 5 chapters and then he become boring, generic. He has inferior complex, is a loner and must have his passive charm to brainwash the undead into loving him to be loved by others and he is perfectly fine with it.
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FaultySanity
FaultySanity rated it
June 28, 2018
Status: c36
One of those novels that start out strong but slowly (well quickly in this case) become more and more difficult to keep reading.

Some of the things that really turned me off:

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    • Author makes MC go through terrible things and vow revenge only to have him immediately become the forgiving good guy.
    • The abilities the MC has are just all over the place as well as the way he uses them. I know it's fantasy, but it just doesn't seem like what a "death mage" should be at all.
    • The MC is one of those protagonists with an inferiority complex to the point where it just gets annoying, especially considering how overpowered his abilities are.
    • Age progression is taking waaay to long, 36 chapters in and the MC is only like 3 years old. (Yet dropping miracles left and right and building a harem)
    • Pretty much everyone he meets likes him immediately or soon after due to one of his special nonsense abilities, especially the women. Maybe I'm the weird one but I don't care to read about women with crushes on toddlers.
    • Annoying food tropes.
    • The writing just seems sloppy.
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It's basically a poorly done Rising of the Shield Hero.
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Darkrilight
Darkrilight rated it
May 28, 2018
Status: c30
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Started off good but then turned to sh*t when it got to the ghoul arc. I was skimming most of the chapters hoping for the shitty ghoul arc to finish but it turns out they follow him and it seems like they won't be going away any time soon. The author is also into reverse loli type of sh*t where the older women are into a 3-year-old child. He uses the revenge plot as an excuse to make the MC seem like he is a badass, but the MC true personality never matches his description. There is also a theme of r*pe and getting pregnant that is present throughout the entire time I read this shit; I'm okay with a bit, but not to the point where it seems like this is the only thing the author is thinking about in his pe*verted mind.

10/10 would recommend if this is your sick type of fetish

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vladi21k
vladi21k rated it
May 14, 2018
Status: c140
Could be perfect if not for the ridiculous harem elements. Most of the Japanese novels are like this, and apart from licensing problem (translations tend to stop in the middle because of legal problems), the echi stuff keeps me from reading them.

Overall an interesting world/worlds with some interesting characters (all non harem characters are interesting and actually have personality). Would recommend if you are in a middle of puberty. If someone could rewrite it without the ridiculous harem characters, the story would be 5/5.
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