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“Knight Cecily meets blacksmith Luke, beginning an adventure against forbidden devil powers after a tragic war.”
The Sacred Sword Blacksmith
聖剣の刀鍛冶〈ブラックスミス〉
7.17
7,060 rank · 10,849 readers · 63 favorites
Seinen
Military
Action
Adventure
Fantasy
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Synopsis
Knight Cecily meets blacksmith Luke, beginning an adventure against forbidden devil powers after a tragic war.
Once upon a time, there was a tragic war, in which the power of the devils was involved. After the war, the devils' power was banned and the world was restored to peace. Cecily Campbell is a knight, who has been looking for a blacksmith to repair her old sword given by her father. One day, she saw a man fighting with a ruffian who used the tabooed devil's power. The man defeated him with one blow of his weirdly shaped sword. The man turned out to be a blacksmith called Luke. The fateful encounter was the beginning of the adventure.
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Community consensus
Derived from 3 sampled reviews
7.0
/10
What 3 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7
mode 5
σ 1.63
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.63 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↑ 2.00
Running avg · Aug 2011 → Jul 2019
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “Okay this is what I can say about the manga so far... I originally watched the anime first and I thought to myself, it's okay. Character development was weak, story progressed way too fast, but the...”
- 7 “tl;dr: A manga with a solid story and a good beginning in terms of light-hearted storytelling, but that does a significantly worse job in that regard when it shifts to being much more serious. ...”
- 5 “In the beginning it doesn't seem like a bad manga but as it progresses further, the heroine turns out to be a weak little girl with her head in the clouds. I don't know what it is with the manga...”
Verbosity
Short · 33%
Medium · 67%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 62 × 10 ch × vol
- Total read 8h 16m approx
- Published Mar 2009 – Jan 2017
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M8171 catalog