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Arifureta has the questionable honour of being the novel I think of first when the worst novel on the site comes up. It's not just bad, it's offensively bad. To call it tr*sh would be praise since tr*sh can be burned for electricity and can be useful in some way. This... Thing is not. The only reason it got even one star is because it's the lowest we can give.Let's start with the "good":-The first arc was passable. Betrayal and revenge is not really my cup of tea but I can see how it could make a worthwhile story.-It's technically a novel.And that's honestly all the positives I can think of. As for the bad: Everything else. Well, that is not very useful so let's have some examples.-Awful plotting.Spoiler
The MC having lost an arm and dying alone on the floor full of monsters built a railgun out of whatever he could gather from the enviroment with the justification of magic. You know, out of rock, stone and condensed water because he could use and apply a skill he gained perfectly from the get-go. I was willing to overlook this since it's just how these stories go. The magic motorcycle and car likewise. But later on he pulls a lavaproof submarine out of his pocket he somehow built just in case he needed it, without ever having done anything related to navigation or naval engineering. That's where I had to draw the line. So essentially the author needed a way to resolve a situation and pulled a deus ex machina.
[collapse]-Awful characters. I managed to drudge through half of the main story and at that point I didn't care about any of the characters at that point.The MC can't seem to decide whether he is an antihero or a hero. The author seems to have tried to make him a cool badass but ended up with a rebellious teenager. "I don't care about anyone else!" Saves a city from rampaging monsters. "Human filth like you should just die!" Fires rubber bullets so they don't die. "And those classmates of mine who left me to die should be killed by the monsters in the same dungeon they left me in!" Goes to save the classmates from the monsters in the dungeon they left him in. That, and he generally is an unlikeable jerk.His harem isn't much better. The first waifu has a plausible reason to follow him but the rest not so much. Second waifu: "I will come with you!" MC: "No." Kicks her off. Second waifu: "I love you! I will follow you until you love me!" First waifu: "Let her in." MC: "Fine." That's the level of romance we're looking at. Oh, and because the harem has the MC, they can do whatever they want. At one point some guys were asking the harem if they wanted to go have some fun on a primary street and the response? A kick straight to the c*otch, just like any decent person. Of course, being a civilized major city, there is no public order and the harem just walks away after assaulting some men. Somehow the author even managed to make a dragon I didn't like, and those are on the top of my world order. I read pretty much any story with main cast dragons in it and this is the first and only case where I didn't like one, and that's an achievement.Of course the other characters are there just to make the MC look better. Other men are there to throw envious gazes at MC's harem and fail to solve any issues so the MC can save everyone while the girls are swooned. You know the deal. The same with villains. They can't stand the MC being better than them so they resort to nasty plots to get back at him, or are generic villains-r-us guys like evil s*ave dealers or some such.-The world is a bog standard dungeons and skills world. The world itself isn't bad in particular - nothing special either, but the people are incompetent to make the MC shine. The skill system brings the same issues as always. That is, it easily turns into "a character can now do this", which only reinforces the handwavium presented in this novel.-Action goes about as well you might imagine having a guy with railguns face off with fantasy people. The MC blazes in on his magic motorcycle dualwielding railguns, headshotting monsters while doing backflips with a waifu on his backseat, explosions going on in the background and an angel choir scattering flower petals. He clears the threat while muttering something like "You fools can't even take care of this much" to the incompetent humans who were fighting for their lives, scoffs and drives away. The peanut gallery keeps whispering how cool the MC was and the guys are soooo envious of the cute harem.Well, I think you got the point. The characters can do things because the author says so and some scenes would have not changed the least bit if it had been replaced with "a wizard did it!". Honestly the whole thing feels insulting as a reader. Apparently the slice of life after story is better but those only work if you care about the cast. And do you really want wade through 179 chapters of worthlesness to get to it?You don't need a psychology degree to see the author was relieving his frustrations into writing here. That, or he watched "Terrible writing advice" on Youtube and didn't get the joke.Do not bother with this waste of internet unless you like dumpster fires or want reaffirmation that the novel you're writing isn't actually that bad since this somehow got published and animated. How that happened will be forever a mystery to me.
