Review Wortenia Senki Have you ever wondered that the protagonists of LNs tend to be too good for their own? If yes try Wortenia Senki to see what I would call a ruthless MC. Thats not to say that the LN is edgy. In fact it goes way afar from it. But I will develop it further. Hey guys nice to meet you all again. This will be the review of Wortenia Senki a light novel written by Ryouta Hori and illustrated by bob. Explaining a bit of the premise Ryoma Mikoshiba a 16year high school student is suddenly summoned to another world. But in the real world his grandfather taught him martial arts and things related to politics and military so he had a good grasp of this things when he was summoned. And then he simply shook off his summoners by killing them. Yes a 16 years student killed 4 adults. While you may think it was forced it was not. In fact it was really reasonable considering the context. But yes this the premise. A guy that is not afraid of killing is summoned to another world and then the story continues. But the story will become edgy? The purpose of it is just to give us readers some gore and thats it? NO. Absolutely not. It may fool you but Wortenia Senki is one of the best LNs that has militarism and politics as it main focus. Comparing to the others kingdom building series or war series the only one I can think of that rivals it is Youjo Senki but they go to different directions which is not the interest here. Wortenia Senki has one hell of a plot. It is heavily focused on militarism politics and strategies affairs. If I do say myself it is very detailed and well thought. Ryouta Hori delves on militarism themes mingling it with politics and explaining things in a way that show to us readers the consequences or benefits and not just tell. He just tells sometimes Ill be honest but in the end its not a big deal. We get a lot of politics machinations with what some nobles and commoners want to a strategic view of a largescale war or some skirmish on a forest. We get an ambush on a mountain and on the other hand a monster attack. Wortenia Senki has all of these things. So if you want a LN that goes on militatism and politics affairs you dont have to read this review just go read the LN. However there are some flaws with the narrator. There were passages for example that we entered in the mind of a noble to understand why he wasnt obeying the Queen. We comprehend his motives and the circumstances that he was put in. It wasnt told to us. It was shown. And it keeps going throughout the volumes. Each time we jump to a different character to give us insights on different views. However it has some flaws and depending on the person it can affect your experience. The narrator is in third person but it is not the kind of narrator that is a POV. No he is an omniscient one in other words he knows ALL of the feeling of all the characters in view. Which means that the author makes jumps of POVs which really really affects your experience. He kind of improved in the later volumes but in the beginning was really a hassle. Like the scene has 3 different characters with the 3 of them being enemies to each other. And while they were negotiating the narrator first shows us the inner thoughts of a character named X. And then it jumps to the character Y and finally to the character Z. In the end you lost the grasp of these characters and you dont know what each one of them was feeling and thats bad Really bad. As I said it improves but never fades unfortunately. Strangely enough the writing is good. Albeit the prose sometimes becomes iffy in the POVs jump the technical level of the writing is high. Above average of the LNs Ive read which is not many but whatever. About the pacing we have another problem. The volumes are too small. They have like 50k words per volume which for me is small. For comparison a Re:Zero volume has 80k words and 86 has 70k80k words. So yes Wortenia Senki has small volumes. And the problem lies in the pacing. When the narrative starts to gets good it is abruptly interrupted by the volume. Many times there was stops like that which broke the pacing. If the volumes were larger like 2 volumes in 1 it would be sooooo much good. Thats down to preferences for sure but it was a bad thing imo. Ah lets talk about characters. Ah the characters. Here we have two problems. A lack of characterization. And a lot of unnecessary POVs. I felt that while reading that the characters didnt differ that much. We have a lot of characters that are nobles which means having the same interest. We have the warriors faithful types. Its more that the author used the tropes and didnt develop them. The Malfist sisters. Damn. If you asked me to differ those two I wouldnt be able to. They are twins yes but they dont have a unique trait. They are the same. And they dont have motivations just the passion for Ryoma. Nothing else. The background of these two exists but is nearly irrelevant. They dont talk about it. They just exist nothing else. And that truly annoys me because they had potential Well on the other hand we have Ryoma which has a strong characterization and one of the main reasons why I enjoyed Wortenia. He is a bit of a Gary Stu but he is such an enjoyable character. And his thoughts are really well defined so all of his decision are reasonable. He is ruthless when the time calls. Not evil not good. Antihero. Ryoma is really enjoyable haha and he is not averse to sex and these things too So the characters are not a strong point in Wortenia. So if you want good characters Wortenia maybe is not for you but you could check it regardless. The worldbuilding is good enough to sustain the plot. Since we have a lot of politics it is necessary a good worldbuilding to give base to it and Wortenia has it. So no problems here. Theres in fact a good thing about it. Wortenia Senki uses well the isekai genre. It is not a singular world. It is not detached from reality. It has meaning. Anything beyond that is spoiler so Ill refrain myself but keep in mind that the world of Wortenia Senki is not a detached world. I think I already talked a bit about Wortenia Senki. So here are my final thoughts if you are still wavering. If you want a LN that focuses on military and political affairs rather than the inner conflicts of characters or an awesome worldbuilding Wortenia Senki is a good fit for you. If you want a LN that focuses on inner conflicts of the characters or an awesome worldbuilding Wortenia Senki is not a good fit for you. However even if you want a LN with good characterizations I think Wortenia Senki is worth a try. Mostly because of the politics and militarism in it since it is a rare theme on LNs and mangas.