A World where Mercenary Men are Called Goddesses

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Yuichiro, a 37-year-old freelance mercenary, was blown unconscious by a grenade during a guerrilla war and found himself in a strange world. In that world, the princes are currently fighting over the throne, and civil war is brewing.

Apparently, Yuichiro was summoned as a [Goddess] to help a boy who is the [Rightful King] and save the country. An old man like himself is the Goddess? On top of that, in order to return to his original world, he has to give birth to the king’s child? 

Yuichiro is disgusted, but in exchange for money, he joined the war in another world…

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傭兵の男が女神と呼ばれる世界
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Sunneshine
New Sunneshine rated it
March 14, 2024
Status: Completed
Truly disappointing. I had a lot of expectations for this story because of the amazing reviews and the tags that were interesting. According to the tags, this would be a more serious story about a cold evil protagonist, a lot of cruelty, and more of a "dark romance". At the start, this can be true, although a bit frustrating, the protagonist does have a cold personality, the MLs have somewhat of a personality and wondering about the outcome of the war is interesting, but around half of the story,... more>> everything goes downhill.

The "character development" makes them more and more bland, not being more than stereotypes.

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After a certain point, Noah loses his initial personality as a immature, shy and rebellious teen, and suddenly becomes a reasonable, just and charismatic king, it was too sudden. Temeraire isn't much better, as he barely had a personality at the start, but a "a bit cruel mysterious man who know more than he let's aparent" was something. By the end of the story all we have is an insecure guy with almost the same personality as "kind, just, king Noah"/spoiler]

The explanation about the reason why MC's transmigrated was terrible.

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How does this work? God saw that a catastrophic war was going to happen in a few hundreds of years, then he decides that the best way to avoid this war isn't by ordering the king to have good relationship with the "future enemie country", neither by directly killing the king responsible for this war. The best way aparently is through forcing a married woman to have son with the king, while driving the first queen mad and inciting a civil war where countless people die because of coronation problems. That's so s*upid, but for some reason is treated as the only mean to save the world.

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They also tried to go for a "everyone has a reason behind their actions" to excuse almost all villains in the story.

Even a traitor who Stabed MC and someone who pushed him off a cliff can be excused with "Oh, he was confused", or "But she's a really sad girl, she thinks that nobody likes her". Yeah, everyone has a reason behind their actions, they can have a sad past, and I love when villains are portrayed in a more human way, but this does NOT excuse everything they do, and the way how everything ended was very anticlimactic.

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In the end, isn't a horrible story.

If all you want is a story were everyone loves the protagonist for no reason and with a lot of "I will save everyone!!!", that's for you, but it wasn't for me. <<less
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JaqiONwbqi
JaqiONwbqi rated it
September 9, 2022
Status: reading
so far its been a great read! JP novels, especially BL ones, have a tendency to be little more than unedited drafts. But this one might just be one of the only ones I can confidently say reads like an actual novel (w/ a bonus of being in 3rd person too!). Though part of that is also because Translator-san has done an amazing job.

the ML situation seems to be a 3P with Noah and Temeraire - Im not sure whether id lable this as r*pe or not, but it is definitely dubious consent;
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MC agrees to have s*x because he wants to go home, but his disgust and discomfort at having the MLs touch him is explicitly written

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MC is likable, hes not the kindest character, but he is a mercenary for hire that has been plucked straight out of the losing side of one battlefield into another - so I cant really blame him for being pessimistic

Worldbuilding is great straight off the bat, we already have differing terms for time and length, cities, geological features, differing appearances (hair/skin/eye colour) and biology (lifespan), political situations and the governing authorities explained - and all in the first few chapters too! Count me impressed

Id hop on this bus quick, I can easily see this being one of the top 3 for JP BL on here granted the translation continues
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lilyrose000
lilyrose000 rated it
September 18, 2022
Status: --
Updated Review (28th September 2022)

I created a NU account just to write this review and I will STILL maintain my ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5-STAR rating since you should NOT skip reading this novel.

Although it's still early at this point, I personally had to agree that this novel is a gem, at least for me! Credit goes to the T/N who did an amazing job translating this novel. If any of you are familiar with reading JP novels before, they tend to be in 1st POV. So reading this in 3rd POV... more>> surprised me, but it didn't interrupt the flow of the story at all.

As for the characters, they all have their own dynamics, personalities, and quirks. The background story for each character is laid out beautifully. In addition, this novel intricately describes the different world settings that Yuichiro transferred to; such as the currency, the different unit systems, geographical information, political settings, and others. The hierarchical structure of their military is also well explained in the novel.

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The military strategies, weapons, their armies' strengths and weaknesses are also mentioned in this novel. Although I'm not a military geek, I enjoyed reading this part very much.

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You may think this is a lot of information to digest, but believe me, it's really not! It's not a forced info-dumping you might see in other novels.

Other than that, our MC is ruthless in his personality, but not without reason. His being a mercenary is one thing, but the way he acted so is probably due to his past. Till this point, his past hasn't totally been revealed yet, but I can't wait to read the next chapters to find out what really happened.

Spoiler

I accessed the advance chapters by subscribing the T/N donation page, and I can say I am NOT disappointed at all and it's allll worth it! Apparently, the MC had a wife and a daughter that was killed in the past. After that, he went on a rampage, disregarding his own life, and went on a killing spree. I guess this might be the main reason why he becomes apathetic toward others and pursues money as his goal. Not only him, but all the other characters also had their own share of past as well, including Temeraire and Goat.

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Same goes to other characters as well! Other characters are all dimensional and not a wallpaper. So, in overall all the side characters are well-balanced and explained in the story.

Lastly, since the T/N said the current arc finishes at chapter 8, I can't wait to see how the story pans out in later arcs.

Spoiler

(Update) I'm on 2nd arc, and I'm loving the storyline. In this arc, you'll understand the political views, and how Yuichiro's group is really capable of executing their military strategies. And, you'll see our main characters' emotional viewpoints as well, mainly Temeraire and Yuichiro, which was superb for me as I can somehow comprehend their inner thoughts and relate them with their actions.

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With that, I hope the T/N continue her translation till later volumes as well since her translation is reaaally good. So, support her while you can people! <<less
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mklaris00
mklaris00 rated it
September 5, 2022
Status: v1c3
Only few chapters in, but I think the translator did a very good job translating this novel. All I could say at this point, the characters seem to have some depths, and personality-wise, they're different from each other.

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Being a mercenary, Yuichiro's pov seems to be conflicting with the other characters, where he views killing as an act of survival or ways of obtaining money. And, although there's a lot of unanswered questions about his purpose in the other world and his background, but I think we'll definitely see some story development in the next few chapters. Not only for Yuichiro but for other characters as well.

As for Noah, he seems like a spoiled brat, but with his responsibilities of being king and at war, fighting with his older brothers... He seems to have a lot in his hands... I predict he'll be influenced by our MC later on, but as for how, we're gonna have to see.

I would say that the most interesting character by far is probably Temeraire. I got the vibes that he has a lot of hidden secrets.. It may be just me but, yeah. I don't know but I've got the feeling that he and Yuichiro will be going through together a lot. In my opinion, he's definitely the main ML.

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Story development ✅️

Character development ✅️

All I can say at this point, the story is reallly interesting... And just like the translator said, this story is not the fluffy kind that you might have read before. <<less
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Eclipse9
Eclipse9 rated it
January 4, 2023
Status: v2c13
This is reallyyy good. Likable MC with a realistic and rational mindset + smut :33

The way how the novel by s written is engaging as well. Kudos to the translator for doing a good job with the translation. 💕
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NovelenthusiastIDK
NovelenthusiastIDK rated it
December 3, 2022
Status: c30
I was expecting a typical plot with r*pe but instead got characters with depth, interesting plot and world building. It’s a gem, if it wasn’t a BL I think it would be insanely popular and get adapted quickly.
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Shrike1978
Shrike1978 rated it
February 23, 2024
Status: Completed
Not at all what I was expecting from the summary.

Setting aside the smut scenes (which are quite good actually) the story is mostly about the damages of war and violence. Just about every character carries scars in one way or another and (although probably unrealistic given the depth of damage PTSD does) at least the story tries to address the different ways people are affected by bad choices, deliberate cruelties, and civilian casualties.

I did guess the identity of God pretty early on. Not sure I buy the logic behind his... more>> actions but it's consistent at least which is more than some stories manage.

I do like that the MC was able to find some peace
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And CHOSE which world he wanted to stay in and who he wanted to be with when he was sent back to Earth

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It was interesting enough and well put together enough that I read all the way to the end of a story that's not my usual style so that says something. <<less
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Foxtantine
Foxtantine rated it
December 7, 2022
Status: c3
• Ch1-3 : This is actually shockingly good. The TL did an excellent job and it reads like a novel with the length and details in each paragraph. World building also surprisingly starts out strong, color me impressed. I didn't expect to find this gem, and I'm even more glad that a translator whose tl-ed works I've read before is tl-ing this. Will continue to read, millions of kudos to the og author and the TL!

P.S. Will edit once I've caught up with current tl-ed chapters.
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