Might doesn’t make right, but might gives you power and protection and that’s all Alsrod Navyil is aiming for in life. Born the second son of a minor noble, and to a concubine who dies when he’s a toddler no less, Alsord’s life has not been an easy one and when it comes time for him to receive his “official profession” he just hopes for one that let’s him get ahead in life.
But, “Oda Nobunaga”? What kind of job is that?!
Oda Nobunaga is a Japanese historical figure who pops up in anime on a regular basis, although rarely in an “accurate” context. We have titles like Nobunaga the Fool, Nobunagun, and of course, a portrayal in the Fate/series, and I personally am convinced that Kisetsu Morita’s inspiration for this series was “well, what if a character had the actual Nobunaga talking to them in their head?” The entire set-up for this story seems to be constructed so that this one weird quirk can happen: Alsrod lives in a world where everyone has a pre-assigned role to play (though they don’t know what it is until adulthood) and instead of getting something ordinary like “fighter” or “monk” he gets the job of “Oda Nobunaga” and, very atypically, this means that the spirit of Nobunaga himself is conversing with him, bestowing advice from his own past life, and creating new skills and buffs for to use as he feels like it.
In short, it’s another rather generic fantasy with a few generic video game elements in it for no good reason; the setting is much more akin to feudal Japan than medieval Europe for once but that’s hardly an interesting difference. The characters also aren’t that interesting, as none of the side characters could really be called fleshed-out (since it seems that their entire lives revolve around their relationship to Alsrod, whether as one of his wives or as one of his military commanders) and Alsrod is just a dull protagonist. After years of bad luck and mistreatment the Oda Nobunaga job completely turns his life around simply by giving him a boost in fighting and letting him buff his allies in combat and the economics of the towns he overseas.
This doesn’t apply to all of his exploits however: all of the creative military and economic strategies Alsrod comes up with are completely on his own, despite not really having the experience or education to come up with ideas that literally no one else has ever heard of. He’s not a super egregious Gary Stu but I only say that because he is so dull that I can’t imagine anyone wanting to be in his place.
In short, there are other, more interesting light novels out there that also involve generic fantasies and protagonists who rise to power in them, only die-hard, media-starved Nobunaga fans need apply here.