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Gonna be talking about and comparing both the LN and WN here, also will only be giving vague and minor spoilers.First off I'll talk about the WN. Lots has already been said about the plot and characters so I'll concentrate on about the pacing of the story which is my biggest gripe.Up till Act 4 (chapter 50) things are fine, but starting that Act the author decides to throw in 4 heroines each with their own problems into the plot. The problem is that the author can only focus on 1 plot-line at a time and because of this only 1-2 heroines are part of each of the following Acts the heroines not involved basically do nothing. To make things worst is that the following Acts may introduce more plot-lines further pushing some heroines back. Like for the 4 heroines in Act 4, 1 heroine is part of the story all the way to the end of Act 6, but doesn't reach any sort of conclusion (author decided to make her delay her confession right at the last moment, also when I mean conclusion I mean the current problems/plot-line is resolved). Another played a small role in Act4, did nothing Act 5 and finally had some conclusion in Act 6 cause she was the main focus. The 3rd heroine is the childhood sweetheart of the MC and is he main focus of Act 5. What has frustrated me and many others is that here the MC had hidden his real identity and near the end of this Act the MC was FINALLY aboit to tell the heroine everything, but author decides to pull the cliche of someone coming in to interrupt everything, then proceeds to set up an entire scenario where they get seperated and the MC doesn't chase after her so it leaves us hanging for who knows how many more Acts before the MC reveals everything. Finally for the 4th heroine her plot-line has been constantly delayed and hasnt even been started yet despite being in Act 7 which starts at chapter 143, also doesn't help that shes the mysterious heroine with very little known about her and that the hint to her story is already known but keeps being pushed back for other plot-lines. Another thing is that the heroine introduced in Act 2 basically hasnt been even mentioned since the end of Act 3, but wouldve been part of the plot again if the author had pursued the plot-line of the 4th heroine in Act 4.The LN on the otherhand has fixed most of these issues from what I can tell (at the beginning of vol 5 now, Act # = volume #) the story remains pretty consistent to the WN version all the way to the end of volume 3 with minor differences. After that it really deviates. Instead of having 4 heroines introduced only 2 are really introduced and are the main focus, the 1st and 2nd heroine is mentioned only is mentioned in passing and only becomes part of the plot starting in volume 5. The 3rd and 4th are the main focus and at the end of volume 4 its decided to pursue the 4th's plot-line which also leads back to the heroine from volume/Act 2 instead of leaving it for several Acts later like in the WN. So overall the pacing is much better so it doesn't feel like some heroines are useless tag alongs for entire volumes/Acts so far.
