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Sevens
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5 | 62% (833 votes) |
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18 Volumes - 343 WN Chapters + Extras (Complete)
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Weekly Rank: #9565Monthly Rank: #3721
All Time Rank: #218
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Monthly Rank: #53
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Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.Lyle Walt is a young noble boy and heir looking forward to the day he can inherit his family’s territory. Except around when he was 10 year old, his parents started neglecting him more and more in favour of his little sister, Celes.
On his fifteenth birthday, he is challenged to a duel by his sister to see who will inherit the household and horribly loses, being cast out of his family. Afterwards, he gets treated by the family groundskeepers and receives the family heirloom Gem from him that Lyle’s grandfather had entrusted to him. From there, he begins an aimless journey with his childhood friend and former fiancée, Novem, and the Gem-turned-Jewel that houses the memories, personalities, and Skills of seven of his ancestors.
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One entry per line7th
Seventh
セブンス
Seventh
セブンス
Related Series
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Nejimaki Seirei Senki – Tenkyou no Alderamin (5)
Shinwa Densetsu no Eiyuu no Isekaitan (WN) (5)
Recommendation Lists
- My Library Of Treasures
- Just read this, you'll enjoy it
- Isekai Fantasy | #1
- Masterpieces in their own category
- My Read
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Novem becomes shady and suspicious as hell later on. MC still blindly trust her even though she clearly has some kind of relationship with Celes and a mysterious background, but MC is like to hell with it. He is just going with the flow for this one
Overall strong character development.
Original exiled setting.
Not a spineless MC.
Like, seriously, I cannot stress this enough. So what does this novel do wrong in my opinion? Too often you'll see something new and the author will play it off as "It just developed" or "Got it some time ago when nothing interesting happened". Sounds like poor planning to me. Too many good coincidences...
Especially them meeting the convoy from Zayin
and gods?
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- Before you go and invest in 300+ chapters...
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- mana-restriction ignoring super-magic
- 'celebrity' appearances and expected 'snappy banter'
- the final reveal of the long awaited (but predictable) bs 'twist'
- and a whole slew of 'If you could do that, why wait till now- people have died?' It's pretty disappointing, but if you stuck with it that far- maybe you won't notice? The author's hoping so anyways...
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- Hypocrisy?- much.
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- Harem?
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- Did you come for the 'harem'? Well:
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- Story/Plotting/Pacing/Tone::
There isn't much exceptional here. If you take any basic 'OP protagonist has to find his way' story, you'll see a lot in common. In fact, the story structure is almost 'ripped off RPG plot arc of the week' only spanning a few volumes at a time, strung together into one supposedly 'epic' form. If you pay attention you'l realize this is another 'made up as the author went along' story, (though with some actual advance planning) - where the author ret-cons/ignores prior developments in favor of newer plot directions.
- An endurance match of a read. I don't mean size- more an issue of maintaining interest throughout due to problems with degrading characters, creeping plot treachery & minimally interesting side-plots/'twists'.
- I won't even go into the totally self-serving (& actually illogical) reasons innocents have to be dragged into/die for his crazy family BS/random goals. Ah, a lot of innocents die in this for grittiness/'dramatic effect'.
- Changes tone about 1/2 way through from 'protag has to get stronger to fight OP villain' into 'politics', 'empire building' & 'the world sure can be dirty, huh?' for flimsy reasons at unwelcome/plot-compromising parts.
- The already muddy 'black & white (Good vs Evil) ' story turned 'grey' (Life isn't so simple, hero) turns into 'Most people are shitty deep down' about 3/5 the way through.
- So much muddy plotting/development.
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- So many cliches, actions & events- not even an issue of 'what's stolen', more an issue of 'is something NOT?'. Even so, I will concede it's a somewhat interesting jumble nonetheless.
- Plot points develop slowly. Lots of deviations. Many 'secrets' are maintained due to forced 'no interest by the MC'- even when told to investigate by others he trusts. As the plot progresses you learn enough to reasonably think 'no way in hell' could someone not NOTICE/figure these things out/make a tiny bit of effort.
- I won't even get into the willfully ignorant, and remarkably scripted treatment of the relationship between Lyle & Novem & their utterly s*upid 'secret-keeping' (read 'the author too that long to decide').
- These secrets (when finally revealed) turn out to be partially predictable, plot-convenient nonsense (usually barely indicated/unsupported by the bulk of the story).
- Characters:
- I won't get into the (green & blue, etc) haired, red, violet (& whatever) eyed anime-envisioned characters that are clearly ripped off stereotypes. It reads as unnatural unless you're accustomed to that mindset (I guess) - but 'whatever'- not a huge point.
- The MC is an idiot (written as 'clever'), but also intentionally hobbled by the author to not learn or grow 'because plot'. In fact, comparing the starting character's behavior, and the ending- except for the change in power, there's actually little change (though you're constantly told otherwise).
- Too many main 'characters' (no proper focus), most of whom are beyond unoriginal, mostly being stereotypes- and a few who have names too similar to others (and a few of those probably on purpose- not that it helps the story).
- Like a character? They'll be pretty much forgotten for random stretches (or it'll seem like it). Can't be helped with SO MANY.
- The faux harem in particular is really excessive, grows without effort, and maintains for no reason, as no one is averse to sharing in light of the MCs supposed awesomeness (though it's primarily neglect or fickleness that's displayed). Just like real people...
- A few 'numbered', mostly unlikable characters get as much time & influence as most of the 'active' characters combined. Actually, the number of intentionally 'designed as unlikable' characters is quite high, and includes the MC & most of the harem.
- World design/canon:
Technological encroachment in fantasy world (many futuristic devices injected). Way to much out-of-context otaku-power nonsense.
- Japan/moe culture injected quite often (though 'no one' gets it- so 'inside joke'.)
- Won't get into how they go from 'the difficult to work magic of manipulating 'puppet golems' ' to 'being informed and competent enough to 'improve overall design specs' of lost technology'- but research is 'deus ex' magic here- so I guess it's ok.
- Writing is so lazy that unobtainium (here called 'rare materials') is actually a thing. Repeatedly. Seriously- how much trouble is it to name your rare materials?
- Portrayed 'power levels' compared to 'performed actions' are frequently inconsistent. In particular the supposedly impressive power levels of side characters is often overlooked- or at least (apparently) countered by less-than- notable opponents.
- The nature of undead/puppets changes by an order of magnitude as is convenient to the needs of the author. The degree to which the undead are exploited/redefined in this saga is ridiculous.
- What 'The goddesses' are & how they fit into the world are left (for the most part) unexplained.
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The Different: This actually does a bit different in the way it observes and comments on issues of 'ethics vs intent' (here mostly 'doing 'bad' things for 'good' reasons'). Well- 'tries to', really. It's an interesting attempt, but not done very well and at the sacrifice of many other story aspects (mainly in trying to 'enlighten' while overlooking foundation issues in it's own construction, and the deep amount of hypocrisy/BS casually written in). I kind of want to give credit for trying- but the execution is so ham-handed and short-sighted that it undermines it's own worth.The ending is pretty borderline bad- 'BAD END' style bad mind you. It starts out and builds up as a story of hope, but then the author decides to muddy it up till it's a far-from-profound tale of selfishness, hypocrisy, and quiet betrayal (At one point the MC intentionally lets his allies die to further his future plans on 'balance'). Also, the ending is a 'pull out your a$$' deus ex nigtmare- laden with fanboi level actions and events.
Yeah- there's a lot of double standards in this. Pretty sure the author is half trolling or just doesn't give a ***. Possibly too dumb to notice himself, though- who knows? Mostly seems like he's lampshading for effect- pointing out the hypocrisy to make a point about war- other times... it just seems dumb.
This is a faux harem. That means that for the most part, the 'dense protagonist'/herbivore schtick is going to be abused. Not really a spoiler exactly- but I don't want to hear anything from people cause I 'ruined it'.
Sorry to say the author is trolling you/snubbing your desire intentionally. There's even a scene where one of the girls is snuck/forced into his room under the pretext of... well, doesn't matter- the next sentence jumps to the next day totally overlooking the incident nor giving any explanation. Ah- but they do all kiss because of a convenient need due to a skill- and because the author hates you, describing each kiss/the awkwardness/situation is pretty much skipped just to say that it's done. Harem bait is just for suckers- it's a faux harem up to the epilogue at least (A few 'extra' chapters left now...).
The villain is OP. WAY OP. You know how he MC plans to defeat them? 'Get stronger'. I know that seems like a ret*rded spoiler- but you'll read hundreds of chapters & see that's pretty much it. This sounds like it's not an issue except for the glaring gap in power which appears unapproachable through 'Goku' effort alone. c240 & NO HINT of how to counter ANY aspect of their OP abilities. (That's actually incorrect- there's one hint they found in a dungeon (ignored- too much effort apparently) & the other is right there, but he denies it (because name is in all caps maybe?). In all other respects, he's just 'going through the motions'.)
What is clear is that except for the bad ones, the rest don't seem to care. No 'gods' (male) apparently.
An interesting world, and lemme tell ya' somethin', the "World" is what I care the most in the novel. You won't see typical stuff like "levels", numbers, etc. It's more like fantasy-like. Level up is called "Growth" and it is explained quite nicely and comes with one of the most hilarious side-effects. And skills are cool too. They are somewhat similar to One Piece magic. A person has one, that stems from their very self and they come in variety of shapes and diversity, roughly categorized as vanguard, rearguard and support. + You can store em in gems/artifacts. There's also refreshing approach about whole "Guild" stuff. But, the story comes with some serious barbs.
First of, its a harem.
It's a bad harem <- with MC being wimpy, undecided and somewhat forced into, so he does not give his in much.
MC is wimpy and typical japanese character. And boy I do believe those jap MC made me look down on japanese for some time now.
Despite what ppl say, "Mr. Lyle" phenomon does not balance Lyle shortcommings, because he appears too rarely.
There are some randomly inserted japanese tropes, wich make eyes bleed. Like, it seemed like a decent fantasy cool world and then "ancient ppl" seemed to be modern japanese with their weird and disappointing tastes. And now let's adress the elephant in the room. Because I've read reviews here and boy nobody said a thing about the biggest and nastiest barb in the whole novel. Seriously, it makes me want to puke and I do cringe when I see it. Namely: Repetitions. I mean, god f-- repetitions and re-introductions. I could live with them appearing at the beginning of volume 2. I mean, f-f-fine. Go at it. By I am starting fifth volume and they are still there. By the time you read fifth volume author DOES NOT have any RIGHT to force me to re-read who is who, how she/he looks and shit. I've HAD my enough of it. Seriously. It's so pointless, tasteless and criminal thing to do. It's the main reason I've gave this story 3. It could be 4 or 5 easily.