A STRONG FRIENDSHIP BEGINS WITH A STRONG DRINK!
Creative Staff
Story: Hiro Ainana
Art: Shri
Translation: Jocelyne Allen
What they say
As Satou and crew set out for more sightseeing, they catch up with the hero Hayato and learn of his many interests, including a particular fascination with Arisa… But it isn’t long before the gang is once again whisked away on another adventure: a trip to the black-market district Muraas! Meanwhile, high overhead, a ferocious new friend prepares to make its debut…
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers):
If there is one thing about Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody volume 6 that I do not like, it is learning more about Hayato. Our resident pedophile—excuse me—our resident lolita loving hero takes Satou with him as they fight against a dragon at the request of Princess Minea… who I guess wants to get in with the hero for the sake of her kingdom. She tries to seduce him. Too bad she’s way above his strike zone. Hayato only likes girls who are young, flat, and around elementary school age.
There are a lot of issues with Hayato and his obsession for little girls, but I’m not going to get into that. We only really see him for about one and a half chapters anyway.
Most of this volume is spent following Satou as he does more things. For example, he is asked by a noble to discover some use for a unique fruit called a Lulu fruit that is grown on said noble’s property. I’m sure he wouldn’t have bothered helping if it wasn’t for the fruit’s name. From what I gathered with Satou’s monologue, he was doing it because he wanted to boost the confidence of Lulu—his companion, not the fruit. Of course, Satou being Satou, he accomplishes his task magnificently, to the point where everyone and their mother wants to buy the Lulu fruit from the noble in question. His success also makes him even more desirable among the noble ladies. Of course, our Satou has no interested in ladies. No siree. Women don’t interest him in the least.
Oh. Wait. That’s a lie.
Satou mentions breasts several times throughout this volume just like he does in the previous ones. He seems to be very fond of them, though despite several women throwing themselves at him, he never does anything despite having claimed back in volume 1 that he wasn’t some n00b virgin who’d never slept with a woman before. He claims to be experienced. That said, aside from one scene in volume 1 where he has sex with some barmaid or something, we don’t see anything denoting his experience with women. He just talks about their boobs a lot.
After dealing with the Lulu fruit, Satou begins traveling to various workshops with his harem of slave girls and learns about magic sword casting. During this chapter, they also learn about glass blowing, painting, and cook more food because… why not, I guess? Not only do they visit a bunch of workshops, but Satou also begins making his own swords using the magic called Mold. Naturally, he does all this in secret for reasons. I still don’t know what those reasons are, but I’ve pretty much come to expect this from our resident protagonist who claims to not want trouble but constantly gets into it.
For a man who goes to great lengths to hide his powers because he doesn’t want trouble, he gets into an awful lot of trouble. At the dark auction he visits with Princess Menea, he witnesses a fight between tiger folk and some crazy pyromaniac noble. Then he discovers an ork and learns about what really went down between the orks and the Hero Yamato. After meeting the orks, he and his harem leave and travel across the country. During this time, they learn the pyro noble has been burning buildings and people in his mad quest for vengeance against the white tiger folk, and naturally, Satou ends up becoming himself involved.
Then he fights a dragon.
Because why not?
And then he and his companions whine and dine with the dragon.
Because why not?
I actually thought this was the most interesting part of the entire volume simply because the idea of exchanging drinks and partying it up with a black dragon is interesting. The rest of this volume is more or less the same of what we’ve been getting, which makes for a very boring read.
In Summary
I can’t say this was a very strong volume, but that is kinda like saying this was a strong series. The volume ends with Miia being returned to her home. However, the time between the ending and the beginning was filled with what felt a lot like filler. There is a lot going on, but at the same time, none of it felt like it was important. It didn’t further any plot, didn’t develop any characters. It seemed as if the only purpose was to show off how talented and desirable Satou is… which is actually pointless in and of itself because Satou doesn’t appear to have any interest in women unless it is to comment on the size of their chest and beauty. This series is a good time waster and isekai fans will like it, but I recommend not getting into this series unless isekai is your favorite genre.
Content Grade: C
Art Grade: A
Packaging Grade: B
Text/Translation Grade: A
Age Rating: 13+
Released By: Yen Press
Release Date: January 1st, 2019
MSRP: $14.00
