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終末なにしてますか? 忙しいですか? 救ってもらっていいですか? / SukaSuka / WorldEnd

Author: 枯野 瑛
Page count: 281
Natively link: 終末なにしてますか? 忙しいですか? 救ってもらっていいですか? | L34

Summary

Japanese

使い捨ての少女兵たちと、時代遅れな雇われ教官の、儚くも輝ける日常。

ヒトは規格外の《獣》に蹂躙され、滅びた。たったひとり、数百年の眠りから覚めた青年ヴィレムを除いて。ヒトに変わって《獣》と戦うのは、死にゆく定めの少女妖精たち。青年教官と少女兵の、儚くも輝ける日々。

Book Walker

English

Everyone wants to be remembered… Untold years after the strange Beasts drove humanity to extinction, Willem emerges from his slumber as the sole survivor. A new civilization of various other races has risen on the floating islands, but there’sno place for a featureless human among them. After aimlessly wandering for a time, Willem grudgingly accepts a job with the military, only to discover that the “weapons” he watches over are in fact young faeries. As he slowly learns more about the children and how they’re linked to his past, the war with the Beasts grows increasingly desperate. When the girls prepare to fight a hopeless battle, is there anything a lone human can do…?

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Availability

Physical: Rakuten | Amazon JP | CD Japan | Amazon US | Kinokuniya JP | Honto
Ebook: eBook Japan | BookWalker | Amazon JP

Personal Opinion

I watched the anime a few years ago and enjoyed it. The world setup is decently interesting, sort of post-post-apocalyptic, and has some good mysteries to explore

Pros and Cons for the Book Club

Pros

  • Interesting world.
  • Mysterious backstory to get into

Cons

  • Slightly on the shorter side (280 pages, but like 15 of them are character previews)
  • Can stray a bit harem-y at times

Pictures

First Three Pages of Chapter One



Additional Pages



Also note that Crunchyroll has episode 1 of the anime adaptation for free on YouTube (though I’m sure region locking is a disaster as always). Don’t start at 0:00 - the anime starts at the end and the LN does not. But start at 4:10 to 6:30 for a nice special epsiode 1 opening of the world.

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