Isaac Guimarães Camilo Parente
Good morning, my name is Isaac Guimarães Camilo Parente, I'm a English Student in Palace, at the moment I'm studying in the S8 with the teather Yara Cristina Lima Vieira, this post is going to be my blog for the activity, I'm going to talk about a book, more specifically a Japanese Light Novel, by the name: In Another World With My Smartphone.
First of all I'm going to explain what a Light Novel is, in the wikipedia is:
"is a style of young adult novel primarily targeting high school and middle school students".
So, is some sort of book mainly focused for teenagers, in which the main theme for most light novels are most likely romance, drama and/or comedy.
Now back to the book of choice, In another World With My Smartphone tells a story about how our main Characther, Mochizuki Touya, Touya is his given name, died in his original world by an accident of god, god felt sorry for the kid, Touya was 16 at the time, and in the afterlife, god talked to Touya about being reincarnated in another world and he could bring anything he wanted with him, Touya accepted the god apologies and choose his smartphone to go with him, god laughed at first and them made some tweaks with his smartphone to still have internet connection(with access to his former world internet), unlimited battery, but he couldn't make any calls. After this, god gave Touya his farewell and good luck and, suddenly, Touya woke up in another world, with his Smartphone.
As soon as he woke, Touya looked around him, he was in a plain without a sight of civilization so he decided to check his phone, surprisingly it really was working, he even could use GPS, so he could see where the nearest city was, besides that he could really access the internet, he tried to also call someone, failed, but then he saw a new number in his list that he didn't know, he called it and it came trough, it was god, he made a way for the two to talk once in a while and also to say some things he forgot to tell Touya, like how Touya could speak the language of this new World and that god made "some tweaks with Touya body" as well, but Touya didn't mind that. After the call Touya headed to the nearest city he saw in the GPS.
Before reaching there, Touya was afraid he would be stopped by someone because of his clothes, he was still wearing his school clothes, and indeed he was, close to the city he was stopped by a Carriage with a very fancy look, inside there was a merchant, a clothes merchant, which was surprised by Touya clothes, he asked for the boy to sell him his clothes, Touya very confused talked to the merchant and they decided to talk more in the guy's shop in the nearest city, in the shop, Touya accepted, he needed some money and information about this world, and with the money he got he also bought some clothes from the merchant. Also with the clothes and money, he got information about a good inn at the city.
Before reaching the inn he saved two girls that were being scammed for an item, Touya went to save the girls and, to his surprise, he was strong enough to fight the scammers, the girls were thankful for the save and Touya talked to them for a while, like, how he was new in the city and didn't know how to read and write in this world language, only talk hiding the fact that he was from other world, the girls, being very grateful for the save earlier, decided to help Touya to learn how to read and write, also with this encounter Touya discovered that it existed Magic in this world, and he was very curious to see how it would be to use magic, so he asked one of the girls to teach him, since she was a magician. To the girl surprise, Touya could wield every kind of magic,something very rare in that world, and Touya was very grateful for the girl teaching him, ignorant as to how strong he was.
I forgot to mention, this is a world of fantasy, so magical creatures, like dragons, talking animals, magic and everything alike are common sense.
Skipping ahead, the three of them decided to stay together in a team and them went to another city, there they also save another girl that was also being scammed by a group of thugs, she also joins the team, and together all four begin adventuring in this whole new world for Touya, they save a princess from a nearby kingdom by mere accident, they defeat a dragon that was terrorizing a village, discover ancient relics of a very old population and so on.
This was my Review of the first volume from the Light novel In another World With my Smartphone, when I first read the first volume I didn't feel so amused by this "Other world" setting, it was kind of bland, but what keep me reading was the exploration of this world. On newers volumes there is always somekind of new thing to this other world, like other kingdoms, cultures, nature, people, creatures. It's always a fun time to see these new things while reading. And also I learned of how important of an human achievement the Telephone was, not being able to communicate to someone fast enough could really be the fine line between life and death for someone.
At the moment of this post there are 24 volumes in total and the light novel is still in progress.
Trivia: For the first 10 volumes the author wrote everything in his phone, just because, as he said, he felt more confortable that way.
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