Pablo Garcia Coutiño

Eventhough it is not a typical "isekai" light novel, the author Isuna Hasekura has little or no knowledge of how real economics and monetary policies function. In a devaluation (a currency becoming of lesser value) there can be no profit from aquiring it. Possible profit may surge from purchasing goods and services in the short term that have not raised their prices and costs to reflect the devaluation. The author uses this as a reason for the main character Lawrence and Holo to be persecuted and for Holo to be "kidnapped". It's nonsensical, illogical and senseless, to use these reasons. If Holo was such a "weakling" and "fragile" character, Lawrence would have never in "real life" used her as a decoy just to easily be captured. But the main reason they are being captured is to stop them from making a profit with the knowledge of a current monetary devaluation. It just doesn't make sense. I find it unbelievable that over 2.5 million copies of this light novel are reported to be sold, if the story arcs are so weakly and thougthlessly written.

It's terrible. Worst volume of all the series so far. It has about half of the pages of the other volumes. But that is not it's main problem. It summarizes, resummrizes and explains and reexplains details that the reader already knows. This constant copy/paste of things that the author has already explained is extremely tiring and truly maddening. As far as the story goes, the bad guys never die, never get punished or pay the consequences of their actions. It's not a credible story arc. It stubbornly tries to recreate past experiences with the SS Kits and the Armor of destruction (mark 2). Probably the worst is when the author tells the story (same story) two, three times, from the perspectives of the different characters. Reki Kawahara is the author of the Manga-anime Sword Art Online. It's much better written than this. It doesn't have as many repeated summaries as here. It's sad when you find someone and something you think is going to be good but it ends up totally dissapointing you.

There is a crossroad (point of no return) in every story, when the author (reki kawahara in this case) exaggerates the abilities of the foes or the heroes too much (to extend his story maybe?) to make it impossible to believe. The other problem this author has in Accel World is that he over summarizes everything!! Even in the same volume, he repeats experiences, one, two, three times over and over again. Something that happened the page before, should not be summarized the page after (it's not like the reader reads a page and then stops). I love Sword Art Online, the story, the soundtrack, even the anime is the best to me. I know this was written under a lot of pressure (anime, game, deadlines) back in 2012 but, If I could turn back time, I wish rather than to read 230-260 pages of over extended, over summarized, unbelievable (not credible) experiences and abilities (i.e. - wofgam cerberus). I think Mr Kawahara has a tendency to inflate and improve his foes as a way for his heroes to overcome them. The only problem with this constant barrage of adversity is that he ends up constructing fictional characters who are masochistic and or martyrs...