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Marginal Operation ![]()
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Description
From J-Novel Club:
Our hero Ryouta Arata is an otaku who's just lost his job after the dissolution of his company. Unwilling to return to his old NEET ways, he applies online to a private military security company, thinking the benefits to be promising. After what appears to be a baffling test, he's assigned to be an "operator of operators" and begins his training in a foreign country. Little does he know, the life of a private mercenary is far more grueling than he could have ever imagined!
Our hero Ryouta Arata is an otaku who's just lost his job after the dissolution of his company. Unwilling to return to his old NEET ways, he applies online to a private military security company, thinking the benefits to be promising. After what appears to be a baffling test, he's assigned to be an "operator of operators" and begins his training in a foreign country. Little does he know, the life of a private mercenary is far more grueling than he could have ever imagined!
Type
Manga
Related Series
Marginal Operation (Novel) (Adapted From)
Marginal Operation Zenshi: Haruka Toudo no Canaan (Spin-Off)
Marginal Operation Zenshi: Haruka Toudo no Canaan (Spin-Off)
Associated Names
Межова операція
マージナル・オペレーション
边缘行动
マージナル・オペレーション
边缘行动
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Latest Release(s)
c.24 by LOL Scans over 4 years ago
c.23 by LOL Scans over 5 years ago
c.22 by LOL Scans over 6 years ago
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c.23 by LOL Scans over 5 years ago
c.22 by LOL Scans over 6 years ago
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Status
in Country of Origin
16 Volumes (Complete)
Completely Scanlated?
Yes
Anime Start/End Chapter
N/A
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User Rating
Average: 8 / 10.0 (135 votes)
Bayesian Average: 7.69 / 10.0
Bayesian Average: 7.69 / 10.0
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Last Updated
October 7th 2023, 11:54am
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Recommendations
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Author(s)
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Year
2013
Original Publisher
Serialized In (magazine)
Afternoon (Kodansha)
Licensed (in English)
Yes
English Publisher
J-Novel Club (16 Volumes - Complete; digital & 15 Vols - Ongoing; print)
Activity Stats (vs. other series)
Weekly Pos #571 
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Monthly Pos #1686 (No change)
3 Month Pos #2581(+250)
6 Month Pos #3611(+182)
Year Pos #4764
(-384)
(+171)Monthly Pos #1686 (No change)
3 Month Pos #2581
(+250)6 Month Pos #3611
(+182)Year Pos #4764
(-384)List Stats
On 1089 reading lists
On 320 wish lists
On 82 completed lists
On 32 unfinished lists
On 205 custom lists
On 320 wish lists
On 82 completed lists
On 32 unfinished lists
On 205 custom lists
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I really liked this story at the start. A 30-yo Japanese businessman with next to no knowledge of war and the military joins a PMC out of desperation for money. He is shunted off to an unspecified Middle Eastern country and is left as an off-site commander of various squads in the area. They go into the dehumanizing aspects of war and he has numerous moral quandaries about what he's doing until he changes perspectives and decides to fight for the little guy. Then we hit chapter 17 and... Yikes.
One year is skipped forwards and the paradigm had completely changed. He has gone back to Japan through unexplained means and is using the child soldiers he was previously trying to free from war as his main manpower in his own PMC. The manga begins to glorify war and the battles the mc participates in because he is so good at commanding and is no longer concerned with the people he may harm. It also takes the main child soldiers, a 14 year old girl, and changes their relationship from one-sided crush to mutual. Gross.
Seriously, it feels like the author decided they just wanted to write a different manga and threw away anything that might be morally complex and ideas regarding actual tactics so they could instead write a fluff piece about how great their mc is at doing war and how all the women love him for it. A genuinely baffling change.
One year is skipped forwards and the paradigm had completely changed. He has gone back to Japan through unexplained means and is using the child soldiers he was previously trying to free from war as his main manpower in his own PMC. The manga begins to glorify war and the battles the mc participates in because he is so good at commanding and is no longer concerned with the people he may harm. It also takes the main child soldiers, a 14 year old girl, and changes their relationship from one-sided crush to mutual. Gross.
Seriously, it feels like the author decided they just wanted to write a different manga and threw away anything that might be morally complex and ideas regarding actual tactics so they could instead write a fluff piece about how great their mc is at doing war and how all the women love him for it. A genuinely baffling change.
I absolutely love this series why doesn't someone pick up the English translations
Up to ch 24.
Enjoyed very chapter. Hope this gets more love & support. Can't wait to see more
Enjoyed very chapter. Hope this gets more love & support. Can't wait to see more
So good that despite only reading 3 chapters I'm giving it a rating. Of course this doesn't mean that it can't go sour later on, but its amazing from the little I've seen. No real battles have been seen yet and the MC is still in training, but its not boring at all, I really feel like I understand the characters and care about them. Can't think of another manga ATM that made me care about the characters so early and oh man, the hints of battles and real stakes in the future have me grovelling for more.
Read it, read it now. You'll have no regrets.
Read it, read it now. You'll have no regrets.
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