In case someone missed it, there is currently a Nomination Round where you can nominate your favorite picks for our very own Lightnovel Awards!
The thing is, with how much time is invested in reading a light novel, not everyone may have read some of your picks. So for this week’s Midweek discussions, I’ll provide a dais where one can explain why their pick should win over someone else’s.
ps.: Very few nominations so far. Myne says you should get your asses up and start nominating!
Well this is a campaign debate, so allow me:
I’ve only read up to and including volume 10 so I’m not up to date, but I found Viscious always to be very 1-dimensional evil. Like her entire personality is that she’s evil but beautiful. She was so far only reactionary without any godly insight or forethought and for being a goddess she’s honestly not very bright. She gets completely blindsided when someone who has all the reason in the world to hate her schemes against her and doesn’t seem to have a personal motivation for what she does other than to fulfill her daily evil quota. Honestly if in one of the volumes later on it would turn out that she isn’t a goddess at all and just a lazy otaku neet who only got reincarnated herself it would be more believable than trying to sell her as an all-powerful being. She is like Walter White trying to look all cool and in control but in reality is scared shitless and swept away by what’s happening around her, desperately treading water to keep her from drowning. She is a caricature and a joke.
No, compare this with my, clearly far superior pick! I present you my candidate (cough actual former God chough) Erwärmen!. Not only has he a complete backstory that can fill an entire book itself, but his motivations are clearly defined. He isn’t the antagonist because MC needs someone evil to fight against, he is the antagonist because his goals are reasonable and just but ultimately clash with the personal wants of Rozemyne. Like every great SSR-Tier antagonist before him (Prince Nuada and General Hummel) he is the hero of the story if you only shift the POV by a fraction of a degree.
That’s, Bookworm and … Lady Bookworm is what an Antagonist of the Year looks like!
I rest my case.
ps.: Fran & Teacher is a good pick. Granted, not Clarissa & Hartmut levels of good, but respectable nonetheless.
Haha, I love this. BTW, you’ve totally convinced me to read Bookworm. I love the anime anyway but you talking about it makes me want to get more Myne/Rosemyne.
And THAT is why I nominated Vicius for #1 villain this year! Because before she WAS one dimensional and seemed evil just for the sake of being evil and to foil the MC. However in Book 11 a lot of her machinations and motivations are revealed. And yes, she’s still awful self-obsessed evil garbage but now you can see how all her plotting meshed together for her goals (yes, she has actual goals!). Granted, it’s maybe not the most mind-blowing reveal ever but it was still a big leap for her character development.
How you worded this… perfection.
Okay, I admit I like that. I think you might have convinced me.
Right?!
PPPSSSSSHHHHFFFFFFTTTT… look, I’ll read it, okay. I promise. But you’ll never convince me Fran & Teacher aren’t #1 ;)
Only fair. I’ll put Failure Frame back in my PTR list when Vicious gets some depth in vol 11.
Don’t read it for Clarissa & Hartmut they are small fry. The best duo is clearly Schwartz and Weiss. Don’t be swayed by their lies!
Vote Schwartz and Weiss for best duo!
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Erwärmen Is not an antagonist!
There is clearly only 1 antagonist in Bookworm. The one and only Ferdinand!
He does nothing but pick fights, has many more pages than Erwärmen and has a deeper back story.
Ferdinand is always trying to pick a fight with my boy Erwärmen for no reason.
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