Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentosho (Light Novel), Vol. 1
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Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentosho (Light Novel), Vol. 1
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Narrated by:
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Paul Dateh
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By:
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Motoo Nakanishi
Summary
Blade of the Guardian
For generations, a shrine has stood in the mountain village of Kadono, and for each generation the shrine has had an Itsukihime--its shrine maiden--and the maiden has had her guardian. During the Edo period, a young man named Jinta protects the town and the Itsukihime. When he confronts a strange demon in the nearby forest, it tells him that in the distant future a Demon God will threaten all people, everywhere, and it claims that the Demon God's rise to power springs from this very time and place, in the village of Kadono. So begins the centuries-spanning journey of a man tainted by demons, hunting through time to seek justice for what he's lost, and to find a reason to keep on fighting.
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It should be noted, it's a little slow building, and this volume is really about setting up the premise of the ongoing story from volume 2 onwards. That's not a bad thing. It means by volume 2 you are fully invested in Jinta/Jinya's struggle. The voice actor does a fine job bringing it to life as well.
A word of warning it does have an element of that icky brother/sister romance, though this is one sided and presented as a corruption of feelings of gratitude. So it's not as bad as it usually is when it appears in Japanese fiction. But, you know, why have it at all? Ew.
Nevertheless, a great book that builds slowly to a spectacular and bleak crescendo.
Enthralling historical supernatural fiction
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