Review Detail of Yokashi in Shadow Slave
Review detail
very disappointed, shadow slave has an amazing start and the main character we are introduced to is a cunning, smart person that doesn't even hestitate to poisen seemingly "innocent" people for his safety, paired with good side characters and an interesting world it would seem like it's going to be great, right? wrong. Everything you've just read gets thrown away and wasted, the main character isn't cunning (you can be cunning without lying), smart or anything anymore. Character development is random and when it's announced to happen ("beach" episode) doesn't happen and overall Sunny disappoints in every aspect. you would think that he fights against the spell and avoid being a slave? nope, he becomes the slave of someone and that's it.. he's a slave, the novel lost its uniqueness at that point and I dropped it after trying to read further, spoiler; it doesn't get better.
Shadow Slave
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Bro that's the point of the novel, sunny is the reader's protagonist while neph is the world's and sunny's protagonist. The characters development are far from random, I really can't understand where you got this from seriously? When sunny become crazy because of loneliness? When his relationship get strained with cassie because she give his weakpoint to neph? I really can't understand, the characters development is one of the strong point of the novel on the contrary, Sunny feel real and in his place I would react the same in every situation cause it make sense and is far from 'random' as you say. He become a slave and that's it? Wrong. You didn't even read bro. Spoiler: no he doesn't accept it, so that's not 'and that's it'. You say that he doesn't need to lie to be cunning, deceitfull, etc.. ..Yes and the author didn't need you to tell because that's already like this bro, seriously did you even read? In my opinion you've just flown over the novel while reading 1 chapter seriously every 3 chapters, seriously how can you talk about the "beach chapter" as if it was an important chapter while it was litteraly as mentionned in the chapter itself, a slight break during their long and tedious travel. A guy who didn't read seriously, you could say you don't like it but what you say to justify it is nothing but sh1t
He has not forgiven her yet. But he's fighting with his need for companionship and being understood so its probable he will do so partially.
GilesCorey666:Wait a minute, he forgave Cassie? I stopped reading to wait a few hundred chapters, did he start simping that hard?
lordsloth:I think it got more interesting after becoming a slave
GilesCorey666:Wait a minute, he forgave Cassie? I stopped reading to wait a few hundred chapters, did he start simping that hard?
Everythingonurmind:now he is an actual slave both in a sexual, physical and mental mannerimage
Bad review. Reviewer fails to understand that you can still be cunning while not completely unfeeling, and understand where the character development gets its direction. Over time, Sunny finds more things that matter to him, and therefore is more restricted in what he does. Honestly, wanting a main character that just manipulates everybody and doesn't have any loved ones is kinda sad. Also, Sunny knew the seemingly innocent people weren't.(Sunny is also still fighting against the spell and his fate as a slave. It's not that easy to destroy an almost omnipotent being, and he doesn't want to kill Nephis.)
It depends on the background. Remember he lived as basically good-for-nothing orphan in the slums and survive there. Sure the author don't described his background in detail but we know that his parents perished as worker and i expect he has it worse as orphaned child. In the first nightmare he thought the "Visions" are real people and still kill them in a cold manner. If it's a modern MC probably with some abuse longing for love it would be another thing but his cunning thinking proceed e.g. questioning Nephis why helping some dead weight and risking her life (it's in the early time where Cassie don't show any usefulness, other than her memory and they could torture her taking all her memories and/or using her as bait cause she's blind cant escape or fight). He only need Nephis as strong fighter cause he's weak in the beginning and only as long as he has 0% chance to survive. Remember his flaw that can make him easily enslaved from the first guy asking for his true name so every conversation has potential to make him enslaved so why bother with it and risk his freedom. And the enslavement is no System giving him some buffs it's just he must follow commands and he know how cruel humans can be and it's not far fetched imagining him being a disposable foot soldier. Sure it's easier to survive as group and knowing his flaw, it would be cunning to be not part of the spotlight and just some random fighter with average power and not a officer. So the problem is the character development and the path from killing people in cold blood, rank people from their usefulness to be a caring MC risking his life for other, it's a jump not a progression and revelation of his changing mindset.
JustSmileAndWave:Bad review. Reviewer fails to understand that you can still be cunning while not completely unfeeling, and understand where the character development gets its direction. Over time, Sunny finds more things that matter to him, and therefore is more restricted in what he does. Honestly, wanting a main character that just manipulates everybody and doesn't have any loved ones is kinda sad. Also, Sunny knew the seemingly innocent people weren't.(Sunny is also still fighting against the spell and his fate as a slave. It's not that easy to destroy an almost omnipotent being, and he doesn't want to kill Nephis.)
v_nolan:I agree. it is even worse when not only forgiving the blind girl but feeling guilty for hurting her feeling after she literally enslaved him. It is like the author changed.