Reincarnated as a Sword (Light Novel), Vol. 1

De: Yuu Tanaka

Narrado por: Josh Hurley

A modern man is reborn into a fantasy world as a sword in this new isekai light novel series!

Reincarnated as a sentient weapon with memories of his past life, but not his name, a magical sword saves a young beastgirl from a life of slavery. Fran, the cat-eared girl, becomes his wielder, and wants only to grow stronger, while the sword wants to know why he is here. Together, the strange duo's journey has only just begun!

©2016 Yuu Tanaka (P)2016 Yuu Tanaka

A super good listen

seen the anime had to listen to audiobook enjoyed both,I just love isekai stories and animes

Cute and Simple

I have to confess that I had watched the anime adaptation before listening to this so maybe my opinion of it is biased since I liked the anime so much. The anime is very close to the light novels here, and both are quite good. I will warn you, though, that the first quarter of this book covers the sword's time alone before meeting Fran, so those of you that are anxious to meet the cat girl will have to be patient. Still, that part of the story is interesting enough, I suppose, but it is mainly just fighting. When the story does finally move on to the sword meeting Fran, things really pick up. Fran is pretty adorable and fearless. She is also quite young, so I'm glad the sword isn't creepy and thinks of Fran like a daughter more than anything. They both work together well and have good chemistry together. And, of course, a little twelve year old cat girl holding her own against dangerous monsters while wielding a high end sword definitely gets her noticed. I definitely think it is worth a listen of you are a light novels fan.

vary good series

Ive read to valume 10 this series is very action packed fun story with great character development for both main characters

well done

the story was well done, the narrator was really good. all and all can't wait for volume 2.

Adorable

Loved the show and enjoyed the audible even more, join me and maybe all of the series will be available soon!

exactly what ive been missing

felt empty trying to find something that i would like or did like.
then this showed up out of nowhere and immediately made my day.
loved watching the anime as it came out and ill love listening to the audio books as they come out too.

Went in expecting nothing, came out pleasantly surprised!

The name made me lump it in with all the other generic Isekai slop like smartphone and vending machine, shows that try to get by on the concept alone. This one however genuinely shocked me with how well done everything is. The story is refreshingly old school, the relationship between the two main characters is wholesome and treated respectfully, the side characters are enjoyable, and my god does the narrator have fantastic range!

One of the few times the anime is MUCH better

The anime made me choke up, often. The book did not. It simply didn't have the same impact. Plus the narrator sounds like he's a streamer the way he just seems to over do things. Kinda like a game show host I guess. His verve or tenor is just,,, annoying.

The book does cover more things than the anime does, the anime is just more impactful, the book tells you that Fran gets hurt a little, but the anime show you just how badly she gets hurt, but still keeps on fighting against all odds. The anime made me want to spend time with my daughter. The book just made me want to refund my credit.

And lastly, although I can't find the review now (I reported it for being a lie, but not sure if anything was actually done about it) the reviewer claimed the anime was full of F-bombs, that is a out right lie. If you watched and and saw F-bombs, stop being a tourist and watching fan subs. They're NEVER accurate and if you weren't a tourist you'd know the difference.