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“Mysterious scarred swordsman Kóinzell, once counted among the defeated "Lances of Betrayal," reappears to challenge the celebrated Seven Heroes.”
Ubel Blatt
Übel Blatt ～ユーベルブラット～
7.61
2,658 rank · 63,221 readers · 1,384 favorites
Seinen
Action
Adventure
Fantasy
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Synopsis
Mysterious scarred swordsman Kóinzell, once counted among the defeated "Lances of Betrayal," reappears to challenge the celebrated Seven Heroes.
When Wischtech threatened to invade the fiefs of Szaalanden, the Emperor dispatched fourteen youths. Of these, the Seven Heroes halted the invasion to herald a time of prosperity while the four Lances of Betrayal were supposedly defeated. Two decades later, the Lances of Betrayal have reappeared and formed a bandit militia near the frontier fief Gormbark. A man with the black sword and a scar over his left eye slays an entire troop of that militia. He is identified as a boy, Kóinzell, and becomes as much an object of fear as of hope even as his own past, motivations, and purpose are a mystery to those he meets in his travel. (Source: MU)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 18 sampled reviews
6.7
/10
What 18 readers settled on.
71%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7.5
mode 10
σ 2.90
Agreement
Polarized
σ 2.90 · split reception
The polarity gap
6.6 pts
Recommenders 8.8 · others 2.3
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Score over time
↓ 3.28
Running avg · Aug 2010 → Apr 2026
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “There is a phrase that one of the characters said and has stuck with me while reading this whole masterpiece of classic dark fantasy: "You make the best of what you have, and that makes you...”
- 9 “This series was great and the story and action complimented each other well. I was looking forward to the anime as a result as well in anticipation since the manga was so well done. The story set...”
- 10 “Like many other mangas, I had looked into Ubel Blatt and then put it aside because of a in depth start that somewhat put me off. Later I decided to my current happiness to pick it up again. For...”
Verbosity
Short · 33%
Medium · 39%
Long · 28%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 167 × 23 ch × vol
- Total read 22h 16m approx
- Published Dec 2004 – Mar 2019
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M0068 catalog