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Dragoon
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Genre
Action Adventure Comedy Drama Fantasy Martial Arts Romance School Life Shounen Slice of Life Tragedy
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Rating(3.9 / 5.0, 441 votes)
5 | 52% (230 votes) |
4 | 17% (75 votes) |
3 | 11% (49 votes) |
2 | 9% (38 votes) |
1 | 11% (49 votes) |
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Author(s)
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One entry per lineYear
Example: 2012
2012
Status in COO
Status in Country of Origin. One entry per line
167 WN Chapters (Complete)
5 LN Volumes (Ongoing)
5 LN Volumes (Ongoing)
Licensed
No
Completely Translated
Original Publisher
One entry per lineEnglish Publisher
One entry per line
N/A
Release Frequency
Every 139.5 Day(s)Activity Stats [Graph]
Weekly Rank: #2000Monthly Rank: #10472
All Time Rank: #379
Reading List [Graph]
On 7646 Reading Lists
Monthly Rank: #347
All Time Rank: #621
Description
Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.Rudel Arses, the first born of one of the ‘Three Lords’ of the Courtois Kingdom, is from a corrupted family, but at 5 years old, he saw a dragon in the sky and his dark future as a villain changed. He was considered an idiot, but was that true? How would his effort to become a dragoon change the kingdom?
Associated Names
One entry per lineDoragūn ~ ryū kishi e no michi ~
Dragoon ~ The way to the dragon knight ~
ドラグーン
ドラグーン ~竜騎士への道~
Dragoon ~ The way to the dragon knight ~
ドラグーン
ドラグーン ~竜騎士への道~
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"The elf girl in question was busy thinking about Rudel, who she had met on her entrance to the school. From there, a considerable amount of time had gone by, but even now she couldn't get him out of her head[...] And every time she heard rumor of Rudel, Millia would grow desperate to contain her feelings."
Oh, and it gets worse. All on the same page.
Wow, I never knew romance could be so easy! Simply argue then apologize to a beautiful girl, and she'll be obsessed with you for months and fall in love with you!
Pathetic.
confessing to Izumi
Does it sound haughty if I say this story is really not for you if you're looking for something mentally engaging? MC is thick and dumb. All support cast have to tiptoe around him on some level or another. Despite the strange-fun beginnings, the story rapidly switch to a weird sort of dating-sim kind of setting but where the MC has 0 sex-drive. Par for the course, I guess. Doesn't make it any better in and of itself. It only doesn't look as bad if you put it side-by-side with the million other Japanese fictions that do the same.
With that alone, I would have given it 3/5 stars. Unfortunately, the devil really is in the details.
The author cannot, for the life of him, write good fight scenes...
Actually, that's not true. He can, he just won't do it. I can think of a single time where he got it so right I physically fist-pumped over it. Set-up, build-up, climax and resolution all happened within the span of ten/fifteen short paragraphs. It was fantastic.
Unfortunately, the author probably gets aroused out of writing long, drawn out, useless chatter-filled fights that sometime even span over whole chapters. Which brings me to my biggest gripe of them all: Character Growth.
Both on an interpersonal level and in terms of raw power, the author really, really like to keep things as they are. Make the MC less thick? Nope. That would ruin the three cut-and-paste joke template the author drew up. Sub-MC has no backbone? No problem. More rehashed jokes! Did someone say something about a training montage? Doesn't matter, the MC will eat dirt in two chapters anyway. To someone who has no idea of how broken the MC actually is, no less. Experience? You can recite Shakespeare at a storm all you want, that won't actually save you from getting fried by a lightning strike. There's no payoff to hard-work, only to experience in this story.
I'm not kidding. Apparently, 'experience' is treated in this story like it's a go-no-go metric/stat. 99% of fights are decided by who has spent more time fighting stuff. Talent? Divine Blessings? Broken Chuuni Magic Eyes? Though shit, eat dirt! I have the upper hand because I'm your senior. It's just so infuriating!
It wasn't so bad at first, but even I got the hint that things weren't about to change anytime soon. I realized eventually that the MC and everyone else was stuck in a sort of metaphysical Groundhog Day. If you see anyone here (or anywhere else) praising the character growth in Dragoon, I suggest having an aneurysm on the spot. That's about as helpful.
For that reason, Dragoon earns itself a very generous 2 stars out of 5.
I want to punch the author in the throat, now, for having wasted so much of my time!
EDIT:
Wow, can't believe I almost forgot about that...
Okay, so not only can the author do good fight scenes but simply decide not to, so can he write actual character growth.
One character actually went through major emotional (and behavioral) upheaval at some point. I say 'point' because she was basically that. An instanced character that, more or less, got killed off. Yeah. Author just offed her like that. That's some mafia bullsh*t if I've ever seen some.
No horse-head jokes needed. It's just plain wrong.