I finally find an isekai that isn't just a male power fantasy, and it turns out to be the best portrayal of a Dungeons & Dragons-style Paladin I've found in years.
It's a slow burner: Japanese shut-in gets reborn in a ruined city in another world and raised to adulthood by a trio of undead cursed to guard the grave of the Demon Lord they sealed away two centuries ago. On his fifteenth birthday, their debt to the god of undeath comes due.
And Will tells the god of undeath to go fuck himself: he's protecting his parents.
Of course, despite training in magic and swordplay from the ghostly archmage and the skeletal master swordsman, he's no match for a god… until the little-known goddess of light and rebirth who brought him to this world intervenes and he swears an oath as her “warrior priest”. He destroys the god of undeath's avatar and frees his parents to pass on, and now he's on a journey to right the wrongs of the world and find a way to destroy the demon king once and for all so the last of his undead family can be at peace.
Attention all D&D players: this is how you play Lawful Good. Will's spear and sword are not murder weapons, they're shields for the innocent. And if an enemy is no longer a threat, they can be potentially spared and saved. I haven't seen a paladin this well-handled since Paksenarrion Dorthansdotter.
Literature How to Play a Lawful Good Paladin: The Anime
I finally find an isekai that isn't just a male power fantasy, and it turns out to be the best portrayal of a Dungeons & Dragons-style Paladin I've found in years.
It's a slow burner: Japanese shut-in gets reborn in a ruined city in another world and raised to adulthood by a trio of undead cursed to guard the grave of the Demon Lord they sealed away two centuries ago. On his fifteenth birthday, their debt to the god of undeath comes due.
And Will tells the god of undeath to go fuck himself: he's protecting his parents.
Of course, despite training in magic and swordplay from the ghostly archmage and the skeletal master swordsman, he's no match for a god… until the little-known goddess of light and rebirth who brought him to this world intervenes and he swears an oath as her “warrior priest”. He destroys the god of undeath's avatar and frees his parents to pass on, and now he's on a journey to right the wrongs of the world and find a way to destroy the demon king once and for all so the last of his undead family can be at peace.
Attention all D&D players: this is how you play Lawful Good. Will's spear and sword are not murder weapons, they're shields for the innocent. And if an enemy is no longer a threat, they can be potentially spared and saved. I haven't seen a paladin this well-handled since Paksenarrion Dorthansdotter.