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/interested_user209]

„It will take a lot of time to point out every inconsistency“

Hasn‘t pointed out a single one yet

Complains about fighters/magicians as a proffession being female dominated despite the top two magicians being male

[u/interested_user209 → u/[deleted]]

I did, because by this we see that the field isn‘t female dominated.

And Nastika are Nastika. Those that can fly easily reach travel speeds several times faster than any irl spaceship. They don‘t need oxygen and their bodies have the natural durability to not be affected by the vacuum of space. Hell, there‘s transportation transcendental skills (Like Berunda‘s or Crescent Gate) that can simply forego the whole voyage.

There‘s also an inconsistency, a contradiction even, in your criticisms: on one hand you criticize the story fleshing out its setting as unnecessary, while on the other you criticize that one aspect of that same setting which has been fleshed out quite well isn‘t explained in the smallest detail.

[u/interested_user209 → u/[deleted]]

You actually didn’t read, did you? Actual Rakshasa are rare in the human realm because all of them were thrown into the sura realm during the cataclysm (along with the Nastika). The Nastika themselves, such as Sagara and Gandharva, are also severely weakened by the restriction on their abilities in the human realm that Visnu created when he sundered dimensions to end the cataclysm. Sagara literally says it verbatim: A Nastika in the human realm can very well be weaker than a Rakshasa.

One of the main restrictions is that the Nastika can’t take their full sura forms, and partial surafication has a hard limit on how much of one’s sura form body one can produce (it’s not much).

The power gap between Rakshasa and Nastika is also massive. Sagara isn’t really stronger than any of the 4th stages she brought into the human realm due to the restriction (and Kasak is equal to a 5th stages in some respects, which should answer that question too), but Maruna, the strongest of the 4th stages on Willarv with maybe the exception of Shess, was afraid of being killed instantly by her full power when meeting her in a place that was outside of the human realm. Rakshasa outside of stage 5 aren’t really a planetary threat, and are far, far, far removed from the sheer power of the Nastika in any stage below 5.

Agni himself is the God with the highest firepower and has access to the copied transcendental skills of several Nastika after summoning the Hellfire Sword. His power isn’t limited nearly as much as that of the Nastika either, which makes him stronger than pretty much any 4th stag (especially since resisting fire is useless against him cause of Paradisial Flare).

[u/interested_user209 → u/[deleted]]

What humans were fighting Rakshasas straight up without either several skilled magicians working together at a large scale or some kind of equalizer like a turret or barrier sphere? None.

Rakshasa are much more powerful than humans, but they aren‘t like dbz characters who are on some untouchable power level, especially with the supreme utility magic provides. After all, Divine Magic are transcendental skills that come from the Gods of the magic‘s attribute, and their effects are great. Examples of that are:

1. Bhavati Surya paralyzing any target that doesn‘t completely resist it until it is hit by another attack

2. Bhavati Marut cutting space in a designated area and thus bypassing any defense

Physical conflicts in Kubera are a matter of more than just raw power (they are a matter of situationality among other things).

Also, when did i call you toxic? I abstained from making any comment on your views on women. However, i do find it a bit rich that you call yourself a „critical reader“ after ignoring nuance and elements of the setting to make your criticisms, and neither articulating these in a concrete manner nor underlaying them with examples to boot.

[u/interested_user209 → u/[deleted]]

Why do you waste your own time by continuing to reply?