Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody, Vol. 17 (light novel‪)‬

Amazing good. One of the best.

I love it I love that it was longer love long stories though princess Mina threw me for a loop I haven’t read the books for a while can’t honestly remember who she was off the top of my head when we got to that part.

Another enjoyable read. The Royal Capital arc is still going, and it’s going strong.

For one, this volume has a rare chapter that’s narrated in third person. Nicely showing how the party spends their time, and of course the impacts of Satou’s works on the lives of the common people. While perspective changes isn’t new, third person narrations are quite rare and is a fresh take on things away from Satou’s head.

On another, the author also gives a lot of development to the character of a certain princess. In the WN, her characterization is relatively minimal except for after-chapters, so this is welcome for me.

The cost for all this, is that the action part gets rather compressed. One particular demon who made a good showing in the WN is pretty much reduced to sideshow here. But the author still could manage to slip in an explanation on how Satou could finally deal the finishing on the big boss fight, which came quite out of nowhere back in the WN.

In all, good changes over all. The parts that were cut the story could do without, the part that was added adds quite some value to the story.

5/5, will suffer in waiting for the next volume.