Comments on: Scrapped Princess Book 2: Song of the Forgiven – Light Novel Review

By: MaverickRonin

MaverickRonin — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:16:43 +0000

Scrapped Princess is one of my top ten favorites anime of all time. I even made a Scrapped Princess AMV several years ago, and also got my non-otaku friends to watch it, much to their enjoyment. I agree Raquel is quite awesome but she’s no Lina Inverse. I’d give examples but they’d just be spoilers to hung at this point.

By: Ai

Ai — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 00:02:54 +0000

ahh how funny, I just finished this book right before coming here and seeing this post!
Yes, I really enjoyed this book as well. the only thing is that it could get repeditive. Like this volume is somewhat similar to the first one. So hopefully the authour will shake it up a little in the next volume.

By: Demian

Demian — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:47:03 +0000

Definately read the first book also. It’s a great introduction to the characters and background, as well as being a mostly self-contained story itself.

To Karura: I think the writing for SP was pretty good. It can be a bit simple at times and some of the action scenes are hard to describe, but it mostly works. The translation seems accurate.

By: Karura

Karura — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:11:35 +0000

I really enjoyed the anime so I’ve been thinking of trying these novels; the only thing that puts me off is the potential for the writing style to be poor- .hack//AI Buster was a bit stilted and a preview I read of Kamikaze Girls (I think that’s what it was called) was so awfully written I could barely understand it.

By: Skane

Skane — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 05:21:14 +0000

I take it that you haven’t watched the anime adaptation yet then? ^^; It’s a pretty good watch, and Raquel remains my top favourite anime female of all times.

She’s like the… calmer and cooler version of Lina Inverse. You got to love a lady who apologises for overkilling on you.

“Impossible! How can your spells be so powerful!”
“You casted without chanting? WITHOUT CHANTING!?”

One of my favourite scenes was when she made an enemy Assassin EAT a truckload of humble pie by crushing him with a DEFENSIVE spell! He had been mocking her for not being able to attack him with offensive spells.

She’s also well aware of her feminine attributes, and utilises them to her advantage at times. This is hilarious, because she is often depicted as being very innocent and conservative.

Cheers.