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[DeepL Translation - needs review] Introduction to Volume 1: To protect their homeland from the powerful empire of Tuolu, the warrior group "Dotsukaku" accepts the role of dead soldiers. Van, in the depths of despair after losing his wife and child to illness, fights as the head of the Dotsukaku, but is reduced to slavery and held captive in a salt mine. One night, a pack of creepy dogs attacked the salt mine and a mysterious disease broke out. Van survives and names the infant Yuna, who als...

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4041054893

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9784041054895

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Niffersays

July 5, 2021

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Great Books for Fans of Fantasy

If you're looking for high fantasy in Japanese, then this is the novel for you! Well...novels for you.

鹿の王 is a story told over four novels following two protagonists, Vaan and Hossaru. Vaan was a deer rider and warrior until an invading army killed everyone he knew and loved and made him a slave in the salt mines. Hossaru is a doctor close to the royal family of said invading country who took over Vaan’s homeland.

Both stories have very different feels but both are slow burns that slowly re

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basilsaucesays

August 5, 2022

Van, formerly the leader of a rebel group, is enslaved in a salt mine. Wild dogs attack the mine, spreading a strange plague. Only Van and a child survive, and he manages to flee. A young doctor, Hossaru, is sent to investigate, and to find a cure, he needs to find Van.

If this was in English it would be a 1,100 page edition the size of a phone book, but instead we have 4 volumes. It’s well written, and detailed and slow. We take 50 pages to meet one character. We learn about the history of the

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karornotrated

September 13, 2023

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