![]() If you are a fan of the series, this book is a must-read. The thrill of the chase, more or less, in reading about Sora and Shiro’s duel with the Eastern Union is riveting and surprising, and maintains the same charm from previous iterations. ![]() No Game No Life manages to be at its most entertaining level yet in its third volume. As for the translation issues that I mentioned last time, many of the clunky-sounding bits of English still perpetuate in this one as well, but it is worth noting that Kamiya’s interesting style is still evident through this. Although the series still maintains the sleaziness of previous volumes, at this point if you are still reading it shouldn’t be much of a problem as it doesn’t get worse. Aside from trolling the readers, Kamiya’s writing always seems to have an amusing flair to it that continues in this volume both in his descriptions and his use of new characters from the Eastern Union and how they interact with the gamer siblings. It makes the entire book an experience of coming up with outrageous theories only to find them somehow thwarted by Kamiya. What was also especially interesting in this third volume was how heavily everything Shiro and Sora do plays such an important role in their overall strategy, from Sora going missing in the beginning to Stephanie and Jibril’s unwitting roles in the game against the Eastern Union. Normally, this would be deus ex machina (a trope that is 99% of the time just poor writing), but instead Kamiya goes on to thoroughly explain the cleverness of the characters’ strategy that makes for constant fascination. That being said, what I find most interesting about No Game No Life is how it takes competitions and comes up with insane solutions that are literally impossible for the readers to be able to predict before they occur. ![]() Sora and Shiro’s exploitation of the game’s mechanics in order to beat Izuna is nothing if not convoluted. Currently there are 10 volumes released and they are available via BookWalker (an e-book store), Barnes & Noble (a physical book shop) and Amazon (an online shopping service). The actual fight between Izuna and the gamer siblings is both intense and interesting as physical strength bordering the impossible faces intelligence and wit of equal proportions. Yen Press has released No Game No Life light novels in English under their Yen On label. However, the real strength of the book came from the final battle, the much anticipated face-off between Elkia and the Eastern Union. ![]() This method of storytelling is another testament to Kamiya’s already proven ability to come up with and write in decidedly unique ways, and was a very entertaining setup for the game Sora plays in an attempt to win Chlammy and her elf friend Fi over to his side. Her struggle to find out what happened is punctuated by occasional moments of thoughts from Sora that are written in backwards order from when they chronologically occurred in the game that caused the predicament. In the very beginning, Shiro wakes up to discover that not only is Sora missing, but supposedly he doesn’t exist. ![]()
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