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TL;DR Edit: This ends up as a pretty much non-stop slapstick anime-wannabe affair. If that's your kinda thing, it's probably worth checking out. If it's not, I'd just give it a miss - there's no winning no matter how you feel about the start.I was actually kind of impressed by this in the beginning.Yeah, the MC is a weird dude, but if all MCs were just the same average person every time, reading wouldn't be so fun. And his weirdness was somewhat understandable and interesting. He approached Yuri games as a sort of helpful outsider watching over the characters, rather than doing a kind of self-insert thing with the MC. And after 'entering' the game, none of that really changed.That said, there's been a couple growing issues.First, sometimes it gets caught up in he weeds of of his world. And the author knows this, and is either not stopping himself or is doing it intentionally. The MC actually goes on at some length about how the game goes into a bunch of unnecessary and weird details, and then the book itself proceeds to do just that. And these details are not interesting. The world setting (the world itself, the magic system, etc) is frankly dull and not very developed. Talking a lot about little details doesn't make it good or flesh it out, it just forces the reader to focus on it. I don't know why we occasionally just get a huge bulk of s*upid bullsh*t about some aspect of the world, but we do. It's not great.Secondly, and actually much more problematically for me, is that the ridiculousness is slowly ramping up as the author tries to extract another laugh from basically the same setup over and over again. It's unfortunately not an uncommon problem when a webnovel is explicitly aiming to be a bit funny. I'm not a fan of it in general, but it's especially bad here because the main thrust of the joke is the MC's weirdness. As a result, he's devolving from a bit of an unusual guy with a twisted but understandable perspective into just a ridiculous caricature of the cringiest of anime-obsessed weird dudes.I'm basically just hanging on out of a combination of a lack of other things to read and a tiny hope this is supposed to be some kind of prelude to his whole outside/gamer perspective breaking. But I don't honestly expect the later to happen, and mostly it's the former doing all the heavy lifting here. And even then, I don't think it's going to carry me much further.Edit: Yeah, this is just full on non-stop slapstick anime transcript at this point. It's just gag after gag after gag with the bits of actual plot strewn around in-between.I also don't understand why so many authors pull so directly from anime-isms. Anime is - shockingly - highly adapted to audiovisual animation. Novels are exactly none of those things.
