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終焉ノ花嫁 #1
The Bride of Demise, Vol. 1
A VOW THAT CANNOT BE BROKEN!
It’s been years since the kihei appeared without warning and overran the earth. To combat this threat, humanity established the Twilight Academy to train students as soldiers, though most die before graduation. During a mission, Kou Kaguro’s squad is attacked, and he must face his fate as yet another student casualty…or so he thought. A girl in white appears during his final moments and swears to protect him, filling a hole in his heart and setting them both on a path of love and despair.
It’s been years since the kihei appeared without warning and overran the earth. To combat this threat, humanity established the Twilight Academy to train students as soldiers, though most die before graduation. During a mission, Kou Kaguro’s squad is attacked, and he must face his fate as yet another student casualty…or so he thought. A girl in white appears during his final moments and swears to protect him, filling a hole in his heart and setting them both on a path of love and despair.
280 pages, Paperback
First published July 20, 2020
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January 2, 2023
From this moment on, you are my master. My wings belong to you. I am delighted to meet you, my beloved. And oh, how I have waited for you. My name is White Princess. My alias is Curtain Call.
Dang I haven't read a light novel in a while. "The Bride of Demise" was a perfect read to start the new year. It had almost everything I love - cool characters, well-written combat, gore and mechanical humanoid weapons lolol.
Kou Kaguro may seem like an irritating character at first. He expresses little emotions, is kinda blank...but that quickly changes. The book starts off slow and gives you whole lotta informations at once and it may be a little overwhelming but rest assured ! It all makes sense later.
Everythings take a big turn when Kou dies. And...then he came back to life. All thanks to princess class kihei - White Princess. She vows to him to protect him and thus their marriage begins.
The whole story consists of relations between the Bride-kihei and the Groom-human. It doesn't matter the gender of those the human is always a Groom.
So basically thanks to that these people have a special connection and can fight other kihei alongside with their Brides.
The storyy was really quickly rushed at this point (I swear Kou spent like 2 chapters in Academy and then was shifted to it's "underground class" lolol) with Kou's transfer to special class "Pandemonium".
The class was really cool. I really enjoyed reading about how it works and how they take up on all the dangerous missions to clear zones from kihei. All the characters were so not annoying. Idk how that happened but there wasn't a single character I wouldn't like. Well, maybe except Asagiri at the start. She just wasn't my cup of tea.
I really enjoyed seeing Kou open up to his emotions thanks to new friends and White Princess.
Speaking about her, she was a bit odd for me at the start but I really loved her later on.
The whole world-building was gasp. Maybe it's just me but the kind of post-apocalyptic world with unknown beasts roaming around feels really good to read about. I wish that other volumes will tell me a bit more about the Academy since I feel like I know only about Pandemonium lol. I'm curious what happened to old friends of Kou and how other Magic Departments work.
Kihei types...are cool. They were so well-written that despite no illustrations of them I could picture every single one. I really love the designs of Brides. My favs would definitely be White Princess and Doll's Protector (along with Tsubaki she's so cuteeee, best Groom I swear).
There were also cool plot-twists. I haven't expected this story to be THAT deep at the end. I really loved the change of the climate.
And finally let's talk about art. It's really pretty and I think it suits the story well. Although I wish there'd be more illustrations of Brides and the world and the fight scenes cuz they're soooo well-written. Neverthless I really enjoyed the art !
And that concludes the first read and the first review of 2023 ! Yay :D
I feel like "The Bride of Demise" is a really good read if you enjoyed "Re:Zero" and "Infinite Dendrogram" or you just want to try some new genre !
Dang I haven't read a light novel in a while. "The Bride of Demise" was a perfect read to start the new year. It had almost everything I love - cool characters, well-written combat, gore and mechanical humanoid weapons lolol.
Kou Kaguro may seem like an irritating character at first. He expresses little emotions, is kinda blank...but that quickly changes. The book starts off slow and gives you whole lotta informations at once and it may be a little overwhelming but rest assured ! It all makes sense later.
Everythings take a big turn when Kou dies. And...then he came back to life. All thanks to princess class kihei - White Princess. She vows to him to protect him and thus their marriage begins.
The whole story consists of relations between the Bride-kihei and the Groom-human. It doesn't matter the gender of those the human is always a Groom.
So basically thanks to that these people have a special connection and can fight other kihei alongside with their Brides.
The storyy was really quickly rushed at this point (I swear Kou spent like 2 chapters in Academy and then was shifted to it's "underground class" lolol) with Kou's transfer to special class "Pandemonium".
The class was really cool. I really enjoyed reading about how it works and how they take up on all the dangerous missions to clear zones from kihei. All the characters were so not annoying. Idk how that happened but there wasn't a single character I wouldn't like. Well, maybe except Asagiri at the start. She just wasn't my cup of tea.
I really enjoyed seeing Kou open up to his emotions thanks to new friends and White Princess.
Speaking about her, she was a bit odd for me at the start but I really loved her later on.
The whole world-building was gasp. Maybe it's just me but the kind of post-apocalyptic world with unknown beasts roaming around feels really good to read about. I wish that other volumes will tell me a bit more about the Academy since I feel like I know only about Pandemonium lol. I'm curious what happened to old friends of Kou and how other Magic Departments work.
Kihei types...are cool. They were so well-written that despite no illustrations of them I could picture every single one. I really love the designs of Brides. My favs would definitely be White Princess and Doll's Protector (along with Tsubaki she's so cuteeee, best Groom I swear).
There were also cool plot-twists. I haven't expected this story to be THAT deep at the end. I really loved the change of the climate.
And finally let's talk about art. It's really pretty and I think it suits the story well. Although I wish there'd be more illustrations of Brides and the world and the fight scenes cuz they're soooo well-written. Neverthless I really enjoyed the art !
And that concludes the first read and the first review of 2023 ! Yay :D
I feel like "The Bride of Demise" is a really good read if you enjoyed "Re:Zero" and "Infinite Dendrogram" or you just want to try some new genre !
January 8, 2025
I don’t know how I feel after reading this book.
It isn’t bad but it isn’t perfect for me.
It starts off as a dump of info and the most interesting part of the book would be the last chapters as everything fall into place. I’ll continue it but I wouldn’t prioritize buying it. The fights are okay and the weird romance added in it is a little meh for me or maybe because they are not “real” person. But given the story it’s good.
It isn’t bad but it isn’t perfect for me.
It starts off as a dump of info and the most interesting part of the book would be the last chapters as everything fall into place. I’ll continue it but I wouldn’t prioritize buying it. The fights are okay and the weird romance added in it is a little meh for me or maybe because they are not “real” person. But given the story it’s good.
October 11, 2022
Bride of Demise is a novel by the author of Fremd Torturchen: Torture Princess, and similar to that, this one starts pretty gruesome as a young boy bleeding profusely and about to die is saved by a princess. Specifically a girl referred to as just "White Princess", who spreads her mechanical wings out from her body to show she's not quite human. Thus starts this military scifi action fantasy series about an orphaned boy in a military school enlisted to a secret elite squadron who fight using the powers of beings like the aforementioned White Princess.
Characters:
I think the characters were a bit weak. I think the author kinda had a hard time putting this interesting narrative in between the school life setting in a single volume. The school life 'scenes' were few, but kinda uninteresting. You get a few moments of two characters having a running gag, and one of those two characters is unusually quirky (sometimes harsh, sometimes lovey dovey). But most of the rest of the cast is kinda standoffish or quiet. Even the main character, Kou, is just very stoic, and forthright, and that's part of the plot, but still.
Each of the major characters are paired with a sort of bio mechanical being known as a Kihei. Some of these are like Iron Golems, some are animalistic or even humanoid, and then there's the special ones that are basically the Princess types. This includes the main characters Kihei, White Princess. She's kinda in a similar role to other protector servant knights in other series who want to devote themselves to a random boring guy for seemingly no reason (I'm sure you've seen this archetype before if you watch any anime). Now there is a bit more to why she devotes herself to Kou, but again, gonna have to read to find that out.
Intrigue / Plot Hook:
I think the overall setting is gonna be why you stick around, and the mystery of what the Kihei are, why Kou has this vague precognition and sense of destiny / duty towards pairing up with White Princess. The only issue is, that intrigue is mostly solved in this volume (and it's heavily implied what the Kihei are).
I did find myself struggling a bit towards the middle of the book. They did two encounters in a row that end with the characters having their backs against the wall with a seemingly insurmountable enemy group. I felt like maybe we should have seen at least one "normal" expedition for the group of Kihei owners, though again, there are story excuses for what happens.
The little nugget at the end that's supposed to entice you to read the next book isn't nearly enough of a hook to stick around as a reader I think, however I will read the next volume.
Characters:
I think the characters were a bit weak. I think the author kinda had a hard time putting this interesting narrative in between the school life setting in a single volume. The school life 'scenes' were few, but kinda uninteresting. You get a few moments of two characters having a running gag, and one of those two characters is unusually quirky (sometimes harsh, sometimes lovey dovey). But most of the rest of the cast is kinda standoffish or quiet. Even the main character, Kou, is just very stoic, and forthright, and that's part of the plot, but still.
Each of the major characters are paired with a sort of bio mechanical being known as a Kihei. Some of these are like Iron Golems, some are animalistic or even humanoid, and then there's the special ones that are basically the Princess types. This includes the main characters Kihei, White Princess. She's kinda in a similar role to other protector servant knights in other series who want to devote themselves to a random boring guy for seemingly no reason (I'm sure you've seen this archetype before if you watch any anime). Now there is a bit more to why she devotes herself to Kou, but again, gonna have to read to find that out.
Intrigue / Plot Hook:
I think the overall setting is gonna be why you stick around, and the mystery of what the Kihei are, why Kou has this vague precognition and sense of destiny / duty towards pairing up with White Princess. The only issue is, that intrigue is mostly solved in this volume (and it's heavily implied what the Kihei are).
I did find myself struggling a bit towards the middle of the book. They did two encounters in a row that end with the characters having their backs against the wall with a seemingly insurmountable enemy group. I felt like maybe we should have seen at least one "normal" expedition for the group of Kihei owners, though again, there are story excuses for what happens.
The little nugget at the end that's supposed to entice you to read the next book isn't nearly enough of a hook to stick around as a reader I think, however I will read the next volume.
May 18, 2023
Absolutely loved it.
December 13, 2023
Amazing story line and especially an amazing ending. It absolutely surprised me and made me want to read more
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