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As a self-proclaimed no-lifer, Yuri spends his days idling in front of a computer. Everything changes when his life in Japan suddenly ends, and he finds himself reborn into the mysterious world of the Shiyalta Kingdom. His new life offers everything he previously lacked: loving parents, a cozy home, and a promising future raising birds on his father's ranch. For centuries, Shiyalta has thrived in peace and prosperity, protected by friendly nations that were also established after the fall of a once-mighty empire. War seems like a distant concern, affecting only the ruling families who occasionally send their warriors to join battles atop massive birds trained by Yuri’s father and others. However, this tranquil existence cannot last indefinitely. A dark undercurrent threatens the kingdom, and it doesn't take Yuri's exceptional intelligence to realize that those distant conflicts will soon become much more relevant.
This series started out with an interesting premise… at first. But by chapter ten, this premise is overshadowed by pointless drama, sloppy (at best) handling of cultural and knowledge differences,
and hints at a possible harem end being slid in there for no particular reason (disturbing to anyone who knows about the social, cultural, and psychological maleffects of polygamy nearly always has, let alone any moral objections).
Then comes chapter nineteen.
Yes, it is that blatant.
Most series I've read which show a christophobic (anti-Christian) or specifically catholophobic (anti-Catholic) perspective show clear and deliberate differences from the real-life religion, even if only to avoid possible law suits (you need plausible deniability). Here?— while the series does technically have such a veneer, it's remarkably transparent. Thanks to my background and where I grew up, I'm admittedly sensitive to such bigotry, but I can usually spend some time bemoaning it (sometimes a fair bit of time, actually) and read on. But here it's honestly impossible: it was laid on far, far too thick.
Contains spoilers for everything up and including Chapter 10:
I get authors "write what they know" or googled, but they should dive deeper and think about the context.
If progress is a ladder, you can't rip out a rung from higher up and toss it down to someone expecting it will help them. But Author thinks it's that easy.