新約 とある魔術の禁書目録 18 [Shin'yaku Toaru Majutsu no Index 18]

新約 とある魔術の禁書目録 [Shin'yaku Toaru Majutsu no Index] #18

by Kazuma Kamachi, 鎌池和馬, Kiyotaka Haimura (Illustrator)

そして本家は、ついに『ヤツ』と対決する――!!
『計画』。
　科学の総本山に鎮座する、不死の魔術師による一〇〇年越しの大願。
　それは無限に変化し、そして容赦なく牙を剥く――。
　学園都市の支配者に狙われた土御門元春と府蘭。上条当麻の部屋に転がり込んだ二人は、最終手段として学園都市からの脱出を試みる。
　しかし、緑色の手術衣を着た男は彼らを決して逃さない。その毒牙、魔術の『業』による攻撃で土御門の妹・舞夏が蝕まれてゆく。
　事態を打破するため、上条と土御門は、学園都市統括理事長の本拠『窓のないビル』突入を決意した。
　待ち受けていたのは、支配者の精神を象徴するかの如き巨大な虚無の空間。
　最上部を目指し突き進む上条だったが、突如現れたミナ＝メイザースを名乗る奇妙なネコミミ喪服美女の誘いで、彼は不死の魔術師が歩んできた『黄金の軌跡』を経験する。『幻想殺し』が生み出された謎と共に――。
　ついに、幕は開く。
　これより始まるのは、一片の曇りもない『人間』アレイスター＝クロウリーの物語である。

Genres: Light Novel, Fantasy

344 pages, Paperback

First published May 10, 2017

About the author

Kamachi Kazuma (鎌池和馬) is a Japanese-born light novel author and the original creator of the Toaru Majutsu no Index light novel series and Toaru Kagaku no Railgun, its spin-off manga series.

Reviews

[Tesla · Rating 5 out of 5]

my best 10/10

[Damian · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the single greatest piece of fiction. I read through the series waiting for more Aleister content, and then I got to this and was blown away.
11/10, easiest rating of my life.

[Hed · Rating 5 out of 5]

First of all, I might end up seriously falling in love with Mina Mathers.....


Skipping personal comments, this was certainly a pretty impressive volume, but not perfect.
I think the most irritating thing here is the first 100 pages, which seemed to take a very calm path before the nuclear warhead was fired and despair reigned. The narrative attempt here is quite simple, but it hides its many mysteries in magical sameness or other more complicated symbologies. Long live Thelesma!

The narrative here is built on making tradeoffs for the past and present and for the best settings in the world, think like Saint Seiya in the 12-house arch. Here the protagonist goes through each of the approvals, but instead of acquiring a destructive power over time, he accumulates knowledge. The premise is interesting, but sometimes certain cuts between past and present become quite irritating as they are cuts made at some key moments, which is very generic and slightly amateurish.

Still the writing had a great added value and several metaphors and dialogue schemes are assembled and expensive, as they are well done, not to mention the mysteries unleashed here and the philosophy that the work seems to accumulate (Thelesma?)

Here we have some good metaphors and certain explanations about the interesting magical origin, which managed to get my attention strongly because of the connectivity and protected essence that the content shown throughout the entire series, and not the end, opening up here, like a pandora's box that hid something you assumed but never realized the colossal state of it


Really, it was pretty good so far, until the final stretch boasts of plot twists that were very well thought out and that were in front of you for a long time, bringing the Pandora analogy again, it's as if you were a creative child in love with adventures and would like to open your father's box hidden behind the closet. Letting yourself go with creativity, you can imagine 4-headed dragons or swords with flamethrowers, but when you open it, it's something even more phenomenal, and that sums up the ending well.


My main fear was about the main mind for all these plans would be how Kamachii would give an explanation about the character and his actions... Man, I'm glad that instead of him taking the virtuous side that tries to explain everything rigidly and boringly, he actually decided take the creative side of things and create a practical solution to every problem that doesn't pollute the script. Well, he usually did that before, but this time it was on a much larger scale.


Ultimately it was an incredible volume and it became my seventh favorite... Seriously, it was a great start to the big arc.

There are no more owners on the chessboard, the prophecy has come to pass, every man is a star, so shine as much as you can and reach for the skies.... Clench your fist and rise once more, unbreakable imagine breaker

[Nhi Đinh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cool, a bit of a cliffhanger with the genber-bending Crowley

[Abel Thomas · Rating 5 out of 5]

Time - [2.93 hrs]