Advertisements
I Was a Sword When I Reincarnated (WN)
Type
Genre
Tags[ ]
Rating(4.2 / 5.0, 895 votes)
5 | 59% (529 votes) |
4 | 18% (161 votes) |
3 | 11% (96 votes) |
2 | 5% (45 votes) |
1 | 7% (64 votes) |
Advertisements
Language
Support Book (#ad)
Author(s)
One entry per lineArtist(s)
One entry per lineYear
Example: 2012
2015
Status in COO
Status in Country of Origin. One entry per line
1308 Chapters (Completed)
Licensed
No
Completely Translated
Original Publisher
One entry per lineEnglish Publisher
One entry per lineRelease Frequency
Every 4.2 Day(s)Activity Stats [Graph]
Weekly Rank: #796Monthly Rank: #2438
All Time Rank: #38
Reading List [Graph]
On 18118 Reading Lists
Monthly Rank: #439
All Time Rank: #46
Description
Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.I opened my eyes to find myself in another world. But for some odd reason, I ended up as a sword. Before my eyes laid a plain full of magic beasts, and so, I launched my body and flew in search of a partner, a wielder (females only).
Wait. Absorbing magic stones gets me skills? Oh hell yeah! This will be fun! More, more, give me more! Gimme all your magic stones! Okay, yeah no, but I am accepting anything anyone’s willing to give.
This tale is one that follows your everyday nerd, normal as could be, save for the fact that he happened to reincarnate as a sword.
Associated Names
One entry per lineSword Shisho
TenKen
Tensei Shitara Ken Deshita
転生したら剣でした
TenKen
Tensei Shitara Ken Deshita
転生したら剣でした
Related Series
I Was a Sword When I Reincarnated (LN) (Light Novel)Recommendations
I Reincarnated Into a Vending Machine (10)Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka? (10)
Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken (WN) (6)
Spirit Migration (3)
The Death Mage Who Doesn’t Want a Fourth Time (3)
The Elf Is a Freeloader (2)
Recommendation Lists
Date | Group | Release |
---|---|---|
06/23/21 | Travis Translations | c612 |
06/22/21 | Travis Translations | c611 |
06/21/21 | Travis Translations | c610 |
06/20/21 | Travis Translations | c609 |
06/19/21 | Travis Translations | c608 |
06/18/21 | Travis Translations | c607 |
06/17/21 | Travis Translations | c606 |
06/16/21 | Travis Translations | c605 |
06/15/21 | Travis Translations | c604 |
06/14/21 | Travis Translations | c603 |
06/13/21 | Travis Translations | c602 |
06/12/21 | Travis Translations | c601 |
06/11/21 | Travis Translations | c600 |
06/10/21 | Travis Translations | c599 |
06/09/21 | Travis Translations | c598 |
Go to Page...
Go to Page...
Like what the hell is Fran wearing?! She owns and wears nothing but armor in the story.
no ecchi for you here, only gap moe
- the MC goes sometimes on to ramble
(well, he only talks to like 3 persons in 180 characters so of course he talks to himself)
- has only the most necessary world building
- very few POV chapters (I really like this kind of chapter) Good points
- good pace
- MC is a sword, so NO HAREM
- no MC solves everything alone,
or even cares to
- Fran
- Fran's dialogues
- Fran's grandiose speeches
-
- A critical commentary on society, racism, power dynamics, or ANYTHING else
It is simply a very satisfying shounen/slice-of-life following the adventurers of a catgirl and her talking sword. Yes, her sword does happen to be a reincarnee and also serves as the narrator of the story. And yes, various villains do occasionally destroy cities and bring unfortunate nations to the brink of collapse. But they are not the focus of the story. That would be the aforementioned catgirl. "Nh."Isekai, OP, all the shebang and yet it's still worth it. Majorly. Author knows his tropes and clichés actually like to play them on and off almost randomly. Some of it's taken straight, other times they are subverted so you really can't figure out exactly how stuff'll go around the next corner. MC and MCette really do well together, although I wish (personally) that the Sword would use one of his ''fleshier'' skill more often. Cat-people are made to be pet and there's a definite lack of hand-on-head action in this (so far).
Only gripe, at this moment, would be the translation that got picked up in April of 2017. I had some minor issues beforehand but [Comet Translation] couldn't translate his way out of a German McDonald drive-tru with the correct amount of mcnuggets. Heck, he'd probably make his getaway with a slice of pizza, somehow! It's become a chore to read from Ch67 and onward. Newcomers beware, you might as well just google translate the raws yourself because that's pretty much what you're getting anyway.
I won't take any stars off because it's definitely not the fault of the author that it's become that bad but if I had to take the current translation as a whole I'd be very much tempted to dock a star, or even two.
So, I'll be putting this in my [Ketchup] folder for now and wait either for [Comet Translation] to up his ball pitch or for someone else to pick up. All the better if the quasi-botched chapters are redone.EDIT: Well, the gauntlet was run through and Comet Translation has long since stopped screwing with us. CardboardTL is doing a great job of it, props to them.
Main reason for my disappointment was this premise raising my hopes. When have we ever seen a reincarnation in an inanimate object. This was so full of opportunities for entertaining and awesome developments... Wasted opportunities
O boy where do I even start. First 10 chapters were like reading the activity log of an mmo character. MC defeated X. MC gains Y skill. Awesome. (Won't even start on the author giving a stat page after every chapter - Tell-tale sign of a storyteller that has no clue how to convey progress in a meaningful way, so they 'statify' it)
Then we have the pacing. The author has his priorities upside down here - He spends 10 chapters on a menial grind, then he rushes all the character development in 2 chapters. It is like he has no clue how to do meaningful character interaction so he fills the novel with fodder.
The character development is almost zero. Sometimes it is actually making the characters flatter than they already are. An example that comes to mind is the main cool parts of the MC is him being an inanimate object and how that hinders him in his life. So what does the author do, he gives him telepathy and a way to make a body (clone) for himself
Character interaction/dialogue is even worse. The has been 0 meaningful dialogue in the first 20 chapters. The characters feel flat and emotionless. Their reactions to amazing stuff are almost laughable. Like for example MC and his wielder (12 year old girl) save a peddler from goblins. Like imagine a 12 year old obliterating
5 goblins asap. And the peddler is like 'cool, thanks'.