YMMV / The Faraway Paladin

• Hilarious in Hindsight: Aoi Yūki has played a couple of characters that had been pushed around by gods, and another as a god-slayer. Here however, she's the God, albeit a benevolent one.
• Spiritual Successor:
  • The author Kanata Yanagino admits that the work was heavily inspired by Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation, itself a fountain of clichés due to being one of the older Reincarnate in Another World isekai stories.
  • The series is also heavily influenced by Western Heroic Fantasy settings. The author plays Dungeons & Dragons and The Lord of the Rust Mountains is basically a Whole-Plot Reference to The Hobbit.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Meneldor and the other survivors from his village. They became bandits after demons attacked and destroyed the village, But Will argues for them to be spared and it's supposed to be very sympathetic because they were desperate. Except that the vision Will received before the attack showed that they were going to slaughter the entire village and they didn't make any attempts at any other solutions to survive (Meneldor's introduction showed that he's a skilled hunter and even if none of the others are remotely close to his level he could probably at least teach them some basics of trapping and gathering edible wild plants and nuts). Moreover, when Will and Meneldor go back to the village to wipe the demons out, even the extremely cynical Meneldor seems to believe that there's an actual chance of still finding survivors there, indicating that the attack couldn't have occurred more than a few days prior and making it look like murder-pillage-and-burn was his first choice.

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