Marginal Operation

Description

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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)

Associated Names

Межова операція

マージナル・オペレーション

边缘行动

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/ak/ Scans

LOL Scans

Latest Release(s)

c.24 by LOL Scans 6 years ago

c.23 by LOL Scans 7 years ago

c.22 by LOL Scans 7 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: 7.9 / 10.0 (139 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.62 / 10.0

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Last Updated

August 7th, 2024 5:56pm PDT - 9 months ago

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Genre

Action Drama Mature Psychological Romance Seinen
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Author(s)

SHIBAMURA Yuri

Artist(s)

KIMURA Daisuke

Year

2013

Original Publisher

Kodansha

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 #1748 (No change)

3 Month Pos #3401

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6 Month Pos #4810

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Year Pos #6157

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On 327 wish lists

On 96 completed lists

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If you end up liking the elf girl, don’t bother reading this. (spoilers)

by mountainchair
3 months ago

Rating: 1.0 / 10.0

Tldr: Author wanted romance between the 30 year old and 14 year old child soldier to happen and so they had the sensible partner be brutally raped and traumatized so that she can be sidelined in the story.

Manga and light novels have a reputation about pairing children with grown adults romantically and I thought this was going to be different.

Mainly because the main character saw the child soldiers as his own kids, and because there was another adult woman who was upfront about her feelings with him.

But holy shit was I wrong.

The climax of the third main arc involves a returning character from the first arc, becoming crazy and kidnaps the elf woman to “get back” at the main character since he snapped after finding out that the man responsible for his daughter’s death now works for the mc.

I wish it just ended there, but nope, the elf girl is brutally raped by him. And after everything was resolved I was still holding out hope that maybe it’s not all over yet.

But again, nope. She tot completely sidelined after this. No casca like character development for her. She gets thrown out of the story.

And it’s plain obvious why this happened, the author wanted to push the pairing between the mc and the child soldier. If you read the last chapter it’s pretty blatant considering the two are basically confirmed together.

And it’s just so damn infuriating the way the author went about it. It’s also quite hypocritical of the author to heavily condemn children’s exploitation and then have the main character’s partner be a child.

And you can’t even handwave this by saying that it’s a different time period like in Violet Evergarden. This story is set in the modern times.

So yeah, if you’ve read this far, take the title’s advice and just don’t bother reading it to save yourself from getting brainworms. But if you can ignore everything bad I’ve mentioned, the overall warfare aspect of the story was still very fun.

... Last updated 3 months ago

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A promising start and disappointing followthrough

by tigerstar186
2 years ago

Rating: 3.0 / 10.0

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.

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Masterpiece..

by KSAOHeartUnderBlade
4 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

I absolutely love this series why doesn't someone pick up the English translations

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Very Solid

by RooftopSwordMaster
5 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

Up to ch 24.

Enjoyed very chapter. Hope this gets more love & support. Can't wait to see more

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AWESOME

by [deleted member]
10 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

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.

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