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Finally got around to finishing the first half of Sorceress Alive and I thought it was very decentish as far as mindless moege are concerned. This really reminded me of the typical 2000-2010 templates, that's right this is more of a 'product' played safe carrying the cliches of the last decade with some twists here and there. Or at least the first half for now.
It's obvious every girl had affection for Kouki, hell even before the routes split up, Yuzuriha because the protagonist helped her out with the Mazoku rumors and just generally giving her a purpose and a place to be. With Akina it was more about proving his abilities/winning against the NotChink team etc.

Now, especially after Mia's route I thought this definitely could've been a harem or rather considering the threesomes it basically was, no idea why not just go with it till the end, I mean first you say polygamy is the common sense of that world, the heroines are also down for it, for example in Akina's route Mia keeps blabbering about it and then in HER route she goes complete 180 and wants to have the protag for herself. But anyway I thought this route in general was the most entertaining especially after the 'heavy' Yuzuriha's route.

Speaking of Yuzuriha, surprisingly or maybe it's just me, this route had both the most icha icha and the most serious events. But If there's one thing I'm disappointed after reading this route is that there's probably is no Kureha(pic related) route in the game especially considering her relation with Yuzuriha and while the game didn't state this outright, obviously she set up the whole thing in the beginning. Maybe even at that time when Kouki was first beaten to a pulp which caused Yuzuriha to go berserk and of course when her team dropped out from the tournament Kureha and maybe her mother were aiming for the whole unrest so they could bring Yuzuirha back to Midgard for execution but surprisingly as it turned out she wasn't going to be transported to Midgard at all since the queen decided to protect her but the protag and the crew got the wrong idea so they forcefully broke her out which caused Kureha to use that to her advantage and try to kill her off
You also get a lot of foreshadowing in this route(hopefully I'm right) even when it comes the tense relations between the queen and each territory and gakuinchou mentioning how her ignoring the queens approval would hamper her neutrality making her stand probably with forces opposing queen's authority but anyhow Yuzuriha's CGs, H stuff, icha icha and the pregnant ending was good and that's all that mattered to me here.

As for Akina, I thought this was one of those forced drama beginnings with Prometheus not answering and her going full retarded not realizing her feelings for the MC considering how high and mighty she is in other routes when it comes to the matters of R E N A I another foreshadowing since the novels she reads are obviously stuff like LN/WNs written more than 300 years ago meaning this is the same world rather than isekai if it wasn't already obvious enough .
Buuut after finally both the protag and Akina sort out their feelings with of course Kouki realizing he liked Akina and what she was feeling was most likely the same(thanks a lot Prometheus you apparently do have a will of your own!), we go from tsun to complete(or maybe not too complete) dere with some decent h-scenes and a cute date and finally we get to the juicy tournament bits which were more focused on compared to the other routes. I thought they were OK like I've seen the action scene descriptions written awfully in much better works and surprisingly they weren't bad here, really not bad at all. It's just that the abilities these magic users have from the start and them being very restricted is an issue for me but when it comes to utilizing them the writer somehow managed them 'believably' so to say. Like vs Mithgard with Azuria's cover or even vs Brittoania with Ririri to counter her defense piercing skill which only activates when she concentrates her magic power in her weapon instantaneously at the point of impact(but at the same time she can't teleport so maybe she should've dumped that shitty ability in the first place)
But anywho it wasn't bad at all you also get to meet Akina's mother and I really wanted at least some scenes with her which is another missed opportunity same with Kureha.

I guess if I had to rate the routes themselves would be something like:
Akina=Yuzuriha>Miu>>>>>>Azuria(very meh)
By the way these are very short like 4-5 hours for each one give or take. I'll get around to reading the second part of the game sometime later and I just want more Yuumi, hopefully it doesn't disappoint.
But yea you really really should't pick this up if you can't stomach the usual overused stuff for me I think I very much enjoyed it so far considering I've been reading similar stuff who knows how long now.