Mebius World Online – Mari’s VRMMO Diary, Embarking on a Laid-back Adventure as a Novice

Hmmm... I'm torn between 3 or 4 stars. I'll go with 3 for now and might or might not change depending on how the story progresses.

It’s a typical VRMMO story. I do appreciate that there’s actual balance; there’s no significant power gap between players. However, like every hyper-realistic VRMMO story, it has its fair share of plot holes, but I’ll overlook those because it’s ultimately a casual, healing story.

Regarding my rating, this novel isn’t a masterpiece, nor does it bring anything new to the table. But as a simple, casual healing story, if it serves its ‘healing’ purpose, I would be happy to give it a 4-4.5. The issue is that the story wasn’t entirely healing for me.

A cute, kindhearted, and mature protagonist having fun in a VR game with fluffy partners, cooking, and fighting monsters—this setup is perfect for an enjoyable, heartwarming story. Unfortunately, the kindhearted aspect is taken too far. She’s too much of a pushover; she can’t say no to even normal requests. While these actions often benefit her in the end, she doesn’t seem to particularly enjoy them. Moreover, she doesn’t express her own desires, so other characters keep dragging her into not-so-fun labor. If the author had shown her enjoying these tasks or feeling satisfied after completing them, I might have overlooked this. Sadly, none of that is portrayed.

So, I’ve taken off a star, but I will continue reading and sincerely hope there will be moments that allow me to bump it back up.

There are numerous apparent problems, plot holes, stupid actions taken, and ignorance of how reality works, which made it quite challenging for me to get past them early on. However, around chapters 6 and 7, almost all of these issues were neatly explained and resolved, though sometimes indirectly, requiring me to think beyond the surface.

To elaborate:

The main character’s real-life situation is atypical of most VRMMO novels, which directly influences her actions, behavior, way of thinking, and knowledge about games, as well as her starting stats.

Secondly, "Mebius World Online" is the first game the main character has ever played.

Lastly, many of the plot devices that might seem like standard VRMMO tropes actually have a basis in the game’s world development and implementation, which is mostly revealed around Chapters 50 and 51.

Miscellaneous:

- There doesn’t seem to be room for any romance plot involving the protagonist.
- The author appears to be woefully unaware of how the development, testing, and release of games (or software in general) work in reality, but this isn’t too much of an issue beyond the prologue.

Lastly, one of the early spoilers:

**Spoiler**

The main character/protagonist, Maria (Mari Aki offline), was in a coma for multiple years and is undergoing physical therapy. This directly affects her character's stats because the game system, which uses technology originally developed for medical purposes, bases the player characters’ starting stats on a full-body scan of the players.

Author: I don't write NTR, don't worry bro!

Also Author: Warnings:

> *nc*st
> Dark Elements
> Sexual Content
> Traumatising Content
> Gore
> Manipulative MC
> Sexual Abuse
> Parallel World (Almost a new World)
> Fantasy Elements (Full-fledged Fantasy later)
> System
> Slavery

Is NTR where you draw the line!? :)))))

I guess It needs someone to make spare for first

So does anyone else really hate shirone? I mean so treats him like crap abandons him, then feels bad for herself because she realized that she's a horrible person, but still, even though she hasn't talked to him in years, acts like she's the one who knows everything about him and worst of all still wants to treat him as a servent!! I'm sorry guys but the more I reed the more I hate her with a passion

do you know where else can we read this in english

Short story with nice and great plots. Worthy of my time. On point, it doesn't have complex plots with unknown ending. It has the best ending. Thank you author for your hard work.

Su Jianan has been disappointing me more and more each chapter. When you think they'd finally be smarter.... They'd be more stupid