A review by writingmidnight96
Record of Ragnarok, Vol. 4 by Shinya Umemura, Takumi Fukui

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

I like the Record of Ragnarock, but the series has a major pacing problem that starts to become super apparent right around books 3-6. Wile each individual chapter is fun, the manner in which the fights are broken up across Manga Volumes leaves the story feeling disjointed. I would much rather see either a more tightly paced story that contains a fight to the number of pages in each volume, or see the manga volumes published at larger page counts so that each volume comprises one fight and the immediate aftermath (+the inevitable hype for the story that comes next). As they are now, fights sort of awkwardly straddle 2 volumes and it feels a bit disjointed getting dropped into a fight that builds builds builds and then having this extra chapter sort of tacked on the back because the story just has to keep going.