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Honestly really enjoyable. While I can't discount the other reviews, in fact they probably were accurate, the TL'er has made distinct efforts to go back and fix errors. I just read all 94 chapters in a row, and I can see some comments on various issues, but ALL those issues had already been fixed by the time I read it.So translation errors/readability aside, I just actually love the story. The MC gets s**ked into a 'bonsai game' - which is a term i've never heard before, but I literally PLAY three of those games right now at the same time lmao - and he's basically using is F2P-honed knowledge to get ahead. That's where it starts at least. The MC is very hardworking, and while he does use his knowledge to his advantage (all the time, actually), his strength is real, and based upon his own efforts. He managed to use an item to artificially upgrade his sword skills, but it quickly comes out that he's... well... novice at using them. So he actually trains to make them his own.Aside from his abilities and cheat skills, I just also really like him. He's a genuinely good guy, and he's, well not overjoyed, but the game he transferred into is literally his one passion in life. So he's actually very happy and driven, and more importantly, driven to make everyone else happy! (see what I did there!!) So anyway, he's a good guy, and wants all the girls around him to be happy for their own sakes. And obviously, because this is a harem novel lol, that leads people falling for him. I mean, seriously. He's strong (unnaturally so for a 'male' in that world), kind, and devoted to the people around him and making them happy. It's honestly no wonder how things turn out!One thing I want to throw out there though, is as of now (c94) he is in no way romantic. I honestly expect there to be problems in the future when he has to actually divorce his emotions about his favorite game heroines, with the real life versions around him. I can't quite call him 'dense', but they're falling in love with him and he's not really at all. That being said, the romance is actually incredibly low-key and slow burn. Can't even really call it romance to be honest - he's just being kind and helping them, and they're having to rearrange their world views because of a male that's not super pathetic and weak. I'd even go so far as to say it's more like the suspension bridge effect: he's uprooting their views and making their lives better, all without romantic intentions, and so they might be 'falling' in love... or just feeling like it. Not really sure to be honest, but let's be real, because of the genre and the nature of the game he's in, I'm 100% sure it'll be harem.Ironically enough, one of the girls hilariously jokes that they should name the party the 'reverse harem' because it's 1 guy and multiple girls, which is a hilarious bit of reversion from the normal.I do really like all the heroines so far. Honestly the only thing I don't like (not that I hate it) is that because basically ALL the characters of this world are female, that ALSO means the s*upid one-note mindless antagonists are also female. It's just odd to me to see an absolute moron of a henchmen... be a woman. I guess I do have some inherent biases!But anyway, for all that the romance is really slow, the plot isn't, and I really do enjoy this. Give it a read!
