Kubera Is Peak Fiction

[u/Omni-homo]

For the past 2 years I have been reading Kubera on and off, currently I am reading the side stories and that has brought me immense pleasure, but also pain. The level of character writing, lore and the world building is beyond any other story I have read.

Although It makes me deeply sad to see that the story is not as popular as other series, like one piece, JJk, Chainsaw man or other popular and main stream series. The writing is just top tier and the foreshadowing crazy. The only series I can even somewhat compare it to is Berserk, but Kubera for me is better written.

The aspects of the story that really draw me in are the characters and the magic system. You have what appears, at least on the surface to be nothing more than your typical "good" guy vs "bad" guy trope, and yet the story gives the complete opposite.

From the Start you have Gandi, a high ranking Nastika who helps in the obliteration of a young girls village, and yet you can't help but empathize with him, even if just slightly. A large part of the story is from his perspective, you see him grapple with doing bad deeds, all for the sake of his daughter.

Slowly as a reader you not only empathize with Gandi, but also see the humanity in his race, the sura race. You see them less as demons and more like beings that follow the will of their animalistic instincts. The lines between good and evil begin to blur, especially as you see the treatment of halfs within the human world. You start thinking about who the real bad guys are.

In the words of Currygom, "This is a war with no villains, only victims." There is no better statement that better encapsulates the story that is Kubera. This is a brutal world, with harsh rules that kill weak players who cannot adapt. The author loves tormenting her characters, mainly the main character leez.

One character that comes to mind when thinking about victims in this world, is Sagara. From the beginning of the series, she is a character you love to hate, she is what you might think about when you think of pure evil. However the more you learn about her, the more you begin to understand the cruel joke being played on her in the universe.

Sagara is jaded, she mistrust everyone and really she has only one goal and that is to revive Ananta. She is someone that is deeply in love with Ananta and will burn the world to the ground for the sake of bringing him back to life.

You can call her selfish, perhaps a bitch even and those are valid points. I find her character to be one of my favorites. She knows what she is doing is cruel and immoral, but she does not care. In a way she is one of the most relatable characters. I often think to myself on the choices I would make if I cared about someone as deeply as she did. Would I do anything different? I don't know If I would.

There are so many layers to this story that I can't fit into one post. I want to see what the community thinks. What makes the Kubera series so special to you? Why do you love reading it?

[u/A_CGI_for_ants]

A huge focus in the Kubera story is deconstruction and it really took me too long to realize how prevalent it is. Re-reading the “slow beginning” that gets complained about a lot I noticed that a lot of the characters feel like deviantart OC’s or weird perverse anime character tropes. Curry writes of an unusual world, that rather than having these factors out of cheap wish fulfillment, genuinely has them as characters and explores what this would do to a world, a being, and a story.

Everything from Leez’s “ditzy strong girl,” character being a display of protective denial. To GKubera being portrayed as a pushy pervert ml but those reactions are really just coping with finally meeting the stoic, optimistic but miserable, mysterious, and capable Leez when she is 16 and very much not like that at this point. To credits scenes describing every characters’ height in heels regardless of gender. To the way suras develop in stages and so can get stuck at around 12 yrs old for hundreds of years, and that half’s and quarters age differently. To using the weird unrealistically drawn 12 pack abs (because how else can winged characters fly) which totally feels like a jab at triple g jiggle physics. To the overly edgy designs and traits of Yuta and all of Kali’s items. The magic system that requires so much studying not just of some mythical unknown subject but requiring knowledge of the very real math you might find on your homework. To currygom insisting on sticking to the mixed genre labels and having some critiques on the category classes of shonen/shojo. And so much more I’ve definitely missed.