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I Was a Sword When I Reincarnated (WN)
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1308 Chapters + 12 Extra (Completed)
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Weekly Rank: #8065
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I opened my eyes to find myself in another world. But for some odd reason, I ended up as a sword. Before my eyes laid a plain full of magic beasts, and so, I launched my body and flew in search of a partner, a wielder (females only).

Wait. Absorbing magic stones gets me skills? Oh hell yeah! This will be fun! More, more, give me more! Gimme all your magic stones! Okay, yeah no, but I am accepting anything anyone’s willing to give.

This tale is one that follows your everyday nerd, normal as could be, save for the fact that he happened to reincarnate as a sword.

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Sword Shisho
TenKen
Tensei Shitara Ken Deshita
転生したら剣でした
Related Series
I Was a Sword When I Reincarnated (LN) (Light Novel)
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Ohems
Ohems rated it
December 18, 2017
Status: c142
A nice, fun and somewhat enjoyable adventure story which I can't really blame nor praise much. The events happening in the story are well planned and executed, but feel ultimately a bit pointless and uninteresting. The main characters just happen to be where trouble takes place and kind of just solve it. Their personal goals are rather whimsical and unimportant, often getting buried under all the random encounters and endless side plots. Also, the extended cooking competition side story kind of added to this and made me rather bored.

In other... more>> words, a well written story that has struggled to keep my interest in itself. <<less
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saihamaru
saihamaru rated it
November 30, 2017
Status: c120
This is an enjoyable read. Not the best out there, but certainly entertaining enough for me to write this review despite my shitty english (do hope you forgive me for that)

The setting of this novel is pretty unique compared to other reincarnated/isekai stories i've read:

First of all, protagonist choose to stay as weapon instead of trying real hard to get humanoid form. Sure he have a way to get humanoid form, but author decided to give huge minus on that method, so MC rarely use it. As result, he's... more>> not mindlessly building harem.

The sub-genre is pretty diverse... so far we have power leveling arc, dungeon crawling arc, detective arc, and even some cooking competition arc. It's hardly getting boring with all of that. It's just... the author sometime jumped sub-genre too suddenly that some chapters feel detached from the main story.

The supporting characters are pretty well defined too. They don't feel like just a side character whose reason being there is to make MC look strong. I really like it when we get their PoV chapters, too bad they're very few in between.
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i especially liked that certain chamberlain chapter

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Though some mob characters certainly feel too forced as evil. But their idiotic evil act is indeed amusing to read as MC proceed to punish them.

Last but not least, even if you think MC and heroine pair is overpowered, they always manage to find an even stronger adversaries that they have a hard time to deal with. These fights often led them to use tricks and even then, they win just barely, shounen-manga style. I personally prefer this to MC steamrolling everything with his godly strength. It make the powerleveling chapters feel worth the while. <<less
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captain crunch
captain crunch rated it
October 21, 2017
Status: c118
Rating: 3.5-4, Translation: 3.5-4

(My reviews may sound negative, but my format is short on positive comments (avoiding spoilers), and often lists reasons why I didn't give 5 stars.)

[Rating/Translation scale: 5 = almost all readers may enjoy / infrequent minor errors. 4 = large majority of readers may enjoy / frequent minor errors or infrequent major errors, no difficulty to read. 3 = 50% of readers may enjoy / frequent major errors, unable to understand some sentences or a paragraph in a chapter. 2 = niche audience may enjoy... more>> / unable to understand moderate portion of a chapter. 1 = portion of niche audience may enjoy / unable to understand most of a chapter.]

Intro: Guy gets hit by car, reincarnates as an "Intelligent Magic Sword" in an alternate, fantasy-RPG world. He has the cheat abilities of floating/flying around on his own, absorbing skills from defeated enemies, and sharing them with his "owner." He meets as 12-year-old cat-girl, and they decide to level up and travel around the world.

Positives: Contains all the regular makings of an Isekai reincarnation story, while going the route of reincarnating as a nonhuman. Becoming an inanimate object is a less common idea, so it may be a novel idea to some readers. The storytelling is simple and focused, so it does not suffer from jumping around too much or from poorly developed arcs. The relationship of a sword being the guardian of a middleschool-aged cat-girl is a little cute.

Negatives: The storytelling scope might be a little small for some readers, as the 2nd MC is a kid and doesn't participate in big events in the world. They are just traveling from one town or adventure to the next. Because the story is focused, it may feel to slow to some readers. The intro, maybe first 15 chapters, may feel especially slow. The MC sword does have lots of cheat abilities and quickly levels up; some readers may not like that. Story does have the usual Isekai tropes; an example is it spends a whole arc on a cooking contest, which I was less interested in.

Other: There is a LN version of this WN; I don't know what the difference is. I think the LN is not far along in translation. The recent translation rate is quite fast, 2-3 per week.

Translation: There have been multiple translators. Most are pretty good, around 4 on my scale. One potential issue is I suspect the current translator may be taking creative liberties with the translation. It seems a bit different from the previous translators. An example is the amount of mild profanities used, when almost none were previously used.

Overall: Somewhat different variation of Isekai story, MC becoming an inanimate object, partnering with a cute cat-girl. Cute and focused/straightforward story. There are some issues, but I think most reincarnation fans would enjoy; close to a 4 on my scale. <<less
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Beer_Kitty
Beer_Kitty rated it
June 25, 2017
Status: c71
Although the story was slow during the first chapters due to the sword hunting skills. The story went up a notch when he or it met with Fran.

As of now the story is kinda slow after going out of the city and meeting up with the dead guy so lets see what happens
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lonewolf93
lonewolf93
January 25, 2017
Status: --
I was told that this story got better as it went along and... no, it didn't. However, in my first review I didn't explain the reason why very well (well, I'm always mostly intoxicated for most of the times, in fact I still am right now).

This series suffers from what I would call the "Bleach Effect" (does anyone even rbr Bleach anymore T.T). I have read about like 70-80ish chaps, since my first review (I'll keep my previous simpleminded thoughts in the spoiler section). What I mainly mean... more>> by the Bleach effect (look at this smug a*s making fun of multi-million dollar franchise, to those I say... Twilight was the same and people still sh*t on it.), the bleach effect, is simply a story that has no drive to it. The story has nowhere to go. It doesn't have a narrative like: pirate king or hokage. The story will continue for the sake of continuing, with the next thing to beat or the next problem. A plot is an end goal, it is where you, no, the story will eventually finish or keep trying to achieve even if it ends mid-way or things just change. So this story is purely an endurance test; you will read it till you get tired (with 343+ chaps and still going, huh? I guess I'm not wrong). I'm not saying that the story will never have a plot in the future, I am saying that the plot will not be the center of it. One of the only series that does this more or less competently is... well, One piece. It has a vague, plot characters with the motivation and reasons (very important) to follow the said plot.

My second gripe with the series is all the a*s-pulls, I mean the magic in the series is out of control. It just does everything the author wants it to do, I mean it tries to be a video game as well as real life. I mean even Donmachi, had a more believable magic system. If in this world some can regrow an arm and leg with high enough healing magic, what is there to stop people from being able to resurrect people from the dead? You know, there was another story that started like as well? DBZ. A manga so infamous for characters sabotaging themselves for the sake of creating tension. If you can revive people from the dead, most dangers after that are kinda meaningless. So, in this world if you don't know a good healer, you're f***ed.

My final gripes are with the characters and tone. Tone is all over the place. It really doesn't know where it wants to be. It doesn't know if it wants to be very childish or edgy and flip flops all the time sometimes even in the middle of life and death situations (in some fights they have very s*upid banter, even when their enemy is super strong). Characters are s*upid, bland and archetypes. They have a screwed personality, especially the protagonist and have no defined morals. Even after like what 80 chaps, all I know is that cat girl loves food and fight, and sword is a lo*icon/father archetype.

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How bad can a story really be? This is a question that all writers must face during the making of their craft (it's obvious that I have no idea where I wanted to with this nonsense). It's bad. Real bad.

I can only guess that this was written by a man-child (also definitely a deviant with anger issues), who has basic education (like middle school perhaps high school? if it is high school god plz help him). Really disappointing when you can feel that there is a lot of heart in the story, however I also play the guitar with a lot of heart and nobody is hiring me.

Might get better, might get worst. However, I got all I need to know from a few chapters. It isn't for adults or children but teens. Escapist teens that is. If you like that sort of stories well you might like it.

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RabenFutter
RabenFutter rated it
August 19, 2016
Status: c43
The Story is about a sword getting stronger though battle. The character's lack chemistry, typical Japanese character with cooking filler from time to time. But when the female lead is a 12-year-old s*ave girl, you can't expect good dialog.

But I still enjoyed the story so far since I wondered just how much more overpowered the sword will become. And that is what drives me to continue reading this story. As for the rest, I don't expect anything other than typical Japanese shenanigans.
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hose246
hose246 rated it
April 10, 2022
Status: c390
This is a pretty wholesome father/daughter relationship novel.

The novel starts with the MC being reincarnated into a sword. And after messing around a little, he met Fran after she saved him from being stuck. Which begins their master/student relationship that's more like a father and daughter's.

There is really nothing much I can say about this novel besides that its wholesome. The characters introduced aren't really interesting, there's almost no character development, and the slice of life parts are really boring.

While slice of life in fantasy novels can be used for... more>> world-building and exploring different cultures, this novel doesn't do that at all. Instead, most of it is focused on food and cooking, which is, personally, the most boring and common slice of life stuffs like you can write.

The fights scenes are pretty good though. The MC really uses everything in his arsenal for the fights, and the actions are written really well.

The plot isn't really complicated, but it's not braindead either. This novel is a really good one if you are searching for a father/daughter novel to read. <<less
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SeriousReal
SeriousReal rated it
September 11, 2020
Status: --
Story is mostly about a shortsighted and casual japanese guy, playing the role of a father figure to a loli beastkin s*ave as a magic sword. She slowly grows into a battle junky. + Some slice of life~

MCs casualness sets the theme, shortsightedness creates the issues the story strive to conquer, any mistakes gets hard retconned with casual writing with even worse half a55ed translations.

the story is fine when compared to the recent status quo however the translations by cardboard are merely interpretations with a lot of the sentences beginning... more>> with ohshits and ends with god damn with F-bombs used nore than ww2. Like some 12yr old banchopunk talking as if he finds it funny. I doubt the original raw have any words that are directly translated that swears that much. <<less
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Jack bucket
Jack bucket rated it
May 6, 2020
Status: v3
Read the light novel, so opinions might differ

If you ask me what I thought at the beginning, I'd say this was boring as hell. Dude reincarnates as a sword, and goes around grinding a lot. We don't get any reason as to why he's a sword or why he reincarnates there, although we might find out later. It's been three volumes and not much has changed so you'll probably have to find out way later.

I dropped it because I couldn't get into it even after all the pointless grinding in... more>> the beginning. He meets a s*ave girl and saves her, and like a lot of light novels, of course this first girl he meets is going to become an important character that the MC will keep helping and make them stronger (How not to summon a Demon Lord, Skeleton Knight, Demon Lord Retry!) for no reason other than the fact they're "super nice". I don't understand why these MCs don't have any goal other than just helping out a bunch of girls. (Not that that's bad but it's 3 volumes of a sword just helping out a girl for no reason at all)

The plot doesn't change much even after three novels, MC and the girl just go around a lot, and they're very op and whatnot but the girl gets underestimated a lot just because she's op and it's kind of infuriating how often the author adds this in. It doesn't happen as much as Average Abilities, but at least the girl ranks up unlike the girls in that book.

Overall 3/5 because it's still kind of interesting to see a talking sword, but really I'd recommend you to read the Spider isekai or Overlord over this if you want an interesting skill system and better world building. <<less
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tides
tides rated it
June 15, 2019
Status: c141
honestly, the concept was fun at the start but it gets progressively boring to read as the sword gets more and more OP on his own.

the dependence on the wielder also eventually disappears and causes the novel to lose it's only unique setting.
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Mnotia
Mnotia rated it
May 23, 2018
Status: c138
The outcome of me reading this was a little bit of happiness and a lot of rage.

The plot starts to die off because they start to ... more>>
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cook ewww

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like Isekai-Raising Children. This makes the story get a 2/5

The characters are pretty enjoyable, especially the woman who had the title of
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protector of children

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I really liked her.

The translation is pretty good with a 5/5. If there's a Japanese term the TL usually puts it at the bottom of the chapter.

The setting is that of another world and don't expect a easy world, ok?

All in all, I'd recommend this to a close friend if they asked me if there was a interesting story out there. <<less
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ReadingSoul
ReadingSoul rated it
May 20, 2018
Status: c259
So this is what an addiction feels like...

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I'm not sure why but some people want the MC to grind like its a game for years on end because fran holds him back raa like... have you ever not talked with anyone for a long amount of time? you do know that's how you go crazy right? also in later chapters they are crazy strong as a pair

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the skills at the start are a bit out of hand, but its not talked about later I think the author cooled down lol..

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One thing I want tho is for Fran to open up a little bit as she does kind of come off as inhuman (beast man) at times

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Pyushis
Pyushis rated it
February 18, 2018
Status: --
As much as I would like to read more, I just can't get the plot nor paint a picture with the narrative I'm given. Here's the takeaway: The MC is supposed to be a sword that can move, fly, see his own stats... And MC can also see himself [how?], use magic [tolerable.], can take skills from others... basically a cluster-f*ck of how, why, and "didn't I see that cheat used in another novel?". One thing is for sure, that childish protagonist tag is correctly placed.
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ieh
ieh rated it
November 28, 2017
Status: --
I tried really hard to like this story after reading the first ~3 chapters of the manga. Story takes off when he meets Fran a child catgirl s*ave whom he decides to help to make her dream of evolving, which her parents died trying to accomplish.

However, the story falls a bit flat because before the MC even met Fran he killed and stole the skills of one of the most dangerous and high level monster infested area. I really wish it focused more on Fran since she's a catgirl from... more>> a fantasy world and not another Japanese guy who died from a car. I want to learn more about this new fantasy world and how it works not about the weird hang ups from otaku Japanese sword dude.

I wish the sword wasn't so OP in stealing all the skills and giving it to the girl. I wish it was more creative with the skills used and wasn't so on the nose and brute forced. The skills and abilities feel a bit earth shattering and made up as the story goes along. I find the sword and the girl's relationship to be quite cute and hope it doesn't go down the lo*icon route.

My biggest problem with this story is just that the tone is all over the place. Like some other reviews mentioned, the catgirl is sometimes kind and a child while other times a merciless killer who tries her hardest and at times is really self motivated. The MC is a loner otaku that doesn't trust anyone except when he meets cute girls or the story needs him to. Lots of wasted potential in this story for me. <<less
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Enutas maph
Enutas maph rated it
April 1, 2017
Status: c66
This mostly features an sword with a beast-lover lo*icon personality which was inherited from earth. I think that MC makes a lot of not-so-good choices, but every MC does that. I also believe that the author is pushing himself too hard to increase chapters because there isn't much plot.
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Darkmaster006
Darkmaster006
November 27, 2020
Status: v1
It's really fun. The first chapter is all about the sword appearing in the world and killing monsters and explaining abilities, which lays the groundwork for the rest of the volume. I like this story because there's no nonsensical harem or shitty romance, instead we get a father-daughter relationship which is incredibly cute and fun to watch. Fran is a s*ave who finds the sword and frees herself, and then wants to reach 'Evolution' as the first of her species in doing so. Sword, "Teacher", wants to help her and... more>> cares for her like a father. It's basically a story about these two meeting people, joining the guild, killing monsters, going to cities, and it seems there's an overarching plot behind it all but it hasn't been revealed as of yet. Either way, it's a 10/10 for me. <<less
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new008
new008 rated it
July 13, 2019
Status: c324
a story about 12 yo girl traveling to discover about his future evolution and became sadistic. It was really good when she began torturing someone :D, but at some point the concept power is imbalance (number status and skill).

one thing make me wondering is when fran was has some money but only buy necessity for master once time and still never buy again.
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