Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou (WN) Chapter 278 Discussion

I actually had the opportunity to read the story to completion and I can say whole heatedly that the author f*cked up a good premise and characters beyond all recognition. The reasons are:

1. Creating the most generic harem in the history of harems
2. Piss poor attempts to create suspense that fall pathetically flat because of the DBZ effect. (When a series runs into a situation of raising the bar too often, aka the Supernatural effect)
3. The most moody and chunni of characters to ever exist. I swear this mofo starts out as a fantastic character and just degrades into every broody teenager ever.
4. The most fantastical ending to what was set up to be dark fantasy ever. Spoiler

   Everyone important to the protagonist lives, becomes immortal, and so on.

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Its beyond annoying because there are so many things this story had going for it in the beginning that would have made it great and then it just turned into grindy harem bullshit. I mean you had a chance to make a badass story an f*ck it up like this? Its pathetic.