uuwaaaa! i didn’t know that the author is sick! i hope he recovers soon.

wow, you’ve written so much about it that i thought it was all that! if you have the time, please please write about vol 6 and if you have more time, more omake stuff.

if only…

ugh. it’s been a couple of days and i’m not over my KnS obsession. raging.

if it’s not a remake of the anime…a season 2 perhaps? (hoping for something that may not be possible)

There’s no way Tsuo Rin could compare to Ayano since Tsou Rin is DEAD. But seriously, there shouldn’t even be any comparisons because they served the same purpose in Kazuma’s life only Tsuo Rin was his PAST while Ayano is his PRESENT ~ that’s where the difference lies. When Lapis revealed Tsuo Rin’s last thoughts, it was at that moment that made me hate her ~ like, how selfish can she get? Perverse is the person who prefers her over Ayano, sadly some people like TR because she is thought to be pliable & sweet ~ what fodder that is, men!!!

He got his power because he wanted to prevent such a horrible thing from happening ever again, not so he could do wtf he pleased. Kazuma isn’t a greedy bastard like that, he was content just living normaly with Tsuo Rin.

Also if they let him waltz in and kill Wernhard then he’d just be a lame murderer killing someone because they’re mad at them. Like some physcopath you find in the streets. Furthermore, there is no way he could have realisticly stopped that demon king from summoning by himself in insanity mode.

Kazuma didn’t fall from grace, he was still badass in the end.

But since the audience didn’t have the chance to see that ‘flaw’ in Kazuma’s character right from the start, they were made to believe that he was the ultimate character.

Now with regards to the answer Kazuma found to the doubts that he had, people are entitled to their own opinion so I’m not really going to argue on that. You want him to be a badass hero like he was in the past, but I’m just glad to see how Kazuma became more humane.

I agree that having Kazuma kill off Wernhard would’ve made them reach the goal of getting rid of the enemy posing a threat to the entire city. But then given the state Kazuma was in, I doubt he can stand a chance against Wernhard and that beast Belial. And once again, Kazuma is a misguided soul, even at the start of the series… It was just concealed in that mask of power and invincibility he had. I wouldn’t really mind seeing Kazuma face off with Wernhard and eliminate him, IF he knew what he was doing… IF he was sure of himself, that he was thinking of changing the world with the power he has. But then, it wasn’t so…

at that state Kazuma was in, even if he kills off Wernhard, he will just end up questioning what it is that he has done… because his motives wasn’t clear, even to himself. Weak as Kazuma might have seemed, I just don’t think he went out of character… he was depicted as a cold and darker character in the novel, but he was also shown as a person with much vulnerabilities. And the anime really failed to depict that.

The thing that really ticks me off about the direction of the plot is how Kazuma was treated. In the beginning, Kazuma was the ultimate character. Unlike all those other whiny, half-hearted, dimwitted male leads, Kazuma was picture perfect. He was smart, handsome, witty, confident. Did I mention he was the most powerful man on earth?

And then suddenly they play him off as the “misguided hero” who needs some prissy little princess female-lead to smack some sense into him. Unbelievably disappointing. They knocked Kazuma off the pedestal. They should have left him on it. I honestly wanted to Kazuma to annihilate Ren and Ayano for being a pair of fools. I wanted Genma to go ahead and try to stop Kazuma only to have that haughty blowhard hospitalized once again — permanently.

I’m sick and tired of heroes being painted with character flaws based off of nonsensical moral mumbo-jumbo. There was nothing wrong with what Kazuma was doing, but somehow, they managed to a) paint him as a misguided fool and b) paint him as a weakling, being knocked around by Ayano.

One swipe of even inelegant, mindless brute force wind should have flattened her into a Kannagi pancake. One gasp of air should have blown out that divine flame. Kazuma should remain untouchable as always.

Do you know how I would have written that scene? This is how Kazuma would respond to those idiots Ren and Ayano:

“Whether it is to destroy something or to protect something, those who have power and use power only do so to shape the world they way they want the world to be. It is a selfish whim, no matter how you use it. Do not think you can robe yourself in righteousness, just because you choose to protect things instead of destroying things.

In the end, you are doing it for your satisfaction. You cannot accept the world as it is right now. You are trying to change it. That is why you are pointing Enraiha at me. But who are you to dictate how the world should be? You do not have righteousness. You do not have power either. I would have thought a brat raised in a family where power is law would understand this much. I see you have nothing but childish delusions. At the very least accept your selfishness. And your weakness.

But I am different. I am going to kill Wernhard. I am going to kill him because I want to. For my satisfaction. I have the power to make it happen. I have the power to shape the world the way I want it. That is what I attained power for. To protect the things I want to protect. And to destroy the things I want to destroy. Now step aside.”

At this point … Kazuma snaps his fingers, destroys the Enraiha and snuffs Ayano’s divine flame like a candle. He enters Pandemonium, throws Yukari and Nanase out with a gust of wind to rejoin Ayano and Ren outside, and proceed to have his showdown with Wernhard/Lapis.

That should be how it played out.

Honestly, this Lapis arc is plain silly. Why should Ayano or anyone else bother to stop Kazuma? I meant … she keeps going on and on about using power to “protect” … but the fact of the matter is, everyone (including her) was going to go into Pandemonium and beat the living shit out of Wernhard anyway. What’s the difference? If they had just let Kazuma go about his business, he would have gotten his revenge, calmed down to being nice-guy Kazuma again, eliminated the threat Wernhard posed to Tokyo, and everyone has a happy ending.

What’s wrong with that? Everyone in the cast suddenly had to go on a nonsensical moral crusade to make sure Kazuma used his power to “protect” instead of “destroy”. Well … it’s plainly hypocritical and plainly stupid.

I loved the first arc of KnS. Everything was right back then. And eventually, things just got worse and worse. Now, we end on the lowest note of all. I’m sorely disappointed.