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This novel is honestly very underwhelming. While it is supposed to be a part of the "game reincarnation" genre, it fails to utilize that setting in any meaningful way. The MC has no objective other than "avoid the game settings" and does absolutely nothing to try and achieve this. The MC constantly mentions that he wants to lay low and avoid the game characters, while actively choosing to amass a harem of game characters. At one point the MC even has an inner monologue about this point (probably because the author realized this contradiction), saying "I'm supposed to be avoiding characters, but they just keep appearing... oh well".At this point the novel has devolved into a plain "secretly overpowered MC" story with no objective other than making money for no end objective. Even considering that, the MC is only considered OP in an uninspired way (He has increased growth rate, that's it). It is exceedingly boring and the only reason why I kept reading past chapter 30 was to give it a fair chance before reviewing. Even if you enjoy the secretly OP genre, this one is not worth your time. All that being said, nothing in the novel is egregiously bad so I will begrudgingly give it a 2/5 rating.Rating the English translation, it is basically "edited MTL". I even hesitate to call it "edited" because there are a ton of editing mistakes such as changing names of characters and titles. It's more like "proofread MTL" because the sentence structure flows well, even if the contents are convoluted and mis-labeled. To illustrate this point, the primary support character (the receptionist) has about 5 different re-spellings of her name from Fine to Fiine to Feine to Fiene, etc. Although it is not a complete slog to go through, you can tell that the translator is just "phoning it home" and does not care to have any consistency in his translation. I give the English translation a 2/5 because it is "readable" even if it has overall poor quality.
