Dark Revenge | A Review Of ‘The Revenge Of The Soul Eater’ Novel

The demon gate, the Mitsurugi phantom blade style, the trial ceremony, and The Revenge Of The Soul Eater… There are so many dark revenge and Japanese fantasy webnovel elements you can find in this novel.

The Revenge Of The Soul Eater itself is all about Sora Mitsurugi, the heir of the Mitsurugi household, who gets kicked out from the household for not being able to overcome the trial ceremony to master the phantom blade style. Even his fiancé, Ayaka, is in danger of his family’s threats.

Upon encountering his Golden Child brother for the last time, Sora realizes that it’s all about using the “shins” a.k.a. the soul equipment instead of mastering the techniques.

Will Sora be able to convince everybody else and get The Revenge Of The Soul Eater? Will he be able to master his “shins” like Ayaka, his brother, and everyone else?

• Part 1: Core Storylines Of The Revenge Of The Soul Eater Novel
• Part 2: Hot Chapters Of The Revenge Of The Soul Eater You Don’t Want To Miss
• Part 3: Meet The Author And The Teams of The Revenge Of The Soul Eater Novel

Part 1: Core Storylines Of The Revenge Of The Soul Eater Novel

The legendary Mitsurugi household is the central focus of The Revenge Of The Soul Eater novel. The household has Shikibu Mitsurugi, the seventeenth-generation of sword saint, who is proud of Mitsurugi’s phantom blade style that should be bestowed from generation to generation.

Shikibu’s pride in his Mitsurugi heritage doesn’t stop at staying a mere status. Earlier parts in The Revenge Of The Soul Eater novel show that he instructs all of the family members and pupils to pass the trial ceremony once they reach 13 years old.

In The Revenge Of The Soul Eater, Sora Mitsurugi is supposed to be one of Shikibu’s sons. Since he’s unable to complete the trial, he has to face a dire punishment: To be banished from the Mitsurugi household.

As a result, his heir status falls to Raguna, his brother, who uses Sora’s fiancé to threaten and intimidate him. Upon their (supposedly) last encounters, Sora realizes his failure in defeating the dragon in the trial doesn’t lie in his inability to complete the ceremony or master the sword.

Instead, it’s all about his self-control and the correlation to his “shins” in The Revenge Of The Soul Eater. He wants to prove to everyone else that The Revenge Of The Soul Eater exists! Can he?

Part 2: Hot Chapters Of The Revenge Of The Soul Eater You Don’t Want To Miss

The Revenge Of The Soul Eater Chapter 1

The Revenge Of The Soul Eater Chapter 1 doesn’t only stay as the introduction of the novel. Instead, it shows the background of Sora Mitsurugi, a son of the seventeenth sword saint of Mitsurugi, and his failure in mastering his family’s swordsmanship heritage.

In The Revenge Of The Soul Eater Chapter 1, Sora has to be kicked out of the house because of his apparent failure in mastering the techniques. He also faces threats from his brother, and his fiancé’s life is also in danger! How will he manage these things?

The Revenge Of The Soul Eater Chapter 7

Chapter 7 of The Revenge Of The Soul Eater novel tells us about Sora, who has been lying unconsciously due to his fatigue in running away from several horrible-looking monsters in an adventure dungeon.

The king of flies and maggots are the monsters that become the main focuses in The Revenge Of The Soul Eater Chapter 7. Nobody is helping Sora, and Sora also has to use (at least) his survival skills to be able to save himself!

The Revenge Of The Soul Eater Chapter 10

Finally, Sora’s shins reiki a.k.a. “Energize, Soul Equipment!” (the mantra to awaken the soul equipment) makes its first appearance in The Revenge Of The Soul Eater Chapter 10! It takes a form of a black and fierce-looking sword… And Sora’s body is almost devoured by the extreme heat that the soul energy produces.

With his new-found power in The Revenge Of The Soul Eater Chapter 10, Sora is finally able to destroy hundreds of maggots in just two hours. He also experiences a level-up to Level 2.

Part 3: Meet The Author And The Teams of The Revenge Of The Soul Eater Novel

The author of the Japanese webnovel ‘The Revenge Of The Soul Eater’ uses the pen name of ‘Gyokuto’. In Japanese, it roughly translates as ‘the Jade Rabbit’.

Jade symbolizes eternity, and it is evident in the first chapter of The Revenge Of The Soul Eater which emphasizes a swordsmanship technique bestowed from one generation to another generation. As for rabbits, I guess, that’s like Chinese people with pandas as one of their country’s symbols.

So far, Gyokuto has only written The Revenge Of The Soul Eater. Yet, it is possible for any author to write web novels under different pen names. At the same time, we can read the novel’s updates on online Japanese web novel platforms.

There are currently more than 300 chapters running for this dark and revengeful Japanese webnovel, with 17 volumes of The Revenge Of The Soul Eater light novels a.k.a. LN. Anyway, the illustrations are, as always happened for other Japanese novels, as pretty and catchy as the dialogues.

The Revenge Of The Soul Eater illustrations are not separate from artist Yuunagi’s works, the artist who has worked for other Japanese web novel illustrations. It also shows that the author and the publishing team are not working alone in realizing this novel. As a result, now, we can see this novel’s translated versions almost everywhere.